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May 11, 2002
Welcome to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive online version below. You can also listen to this week's show with host Peter Sagal.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He didn't seem to understand the severity of the situation. He acted almost as if the law enforcement officers were his old chums, and we had thrown a big surprise party for him."
That was a sheriff revealing his puzzlement at the somewhat cheerful attitude taken by what wanted criminal when he was finally captured?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You should wear your hair like mine!"
That's what America's favorite over-the-hill rock star Ozzy Osbourne said to someone last weekend. Who was Ozzy giving grooming tips to?
HINT: These two guys have a lot in common: both are in their 50s, both used to drink too much, but only one of them used to bite the heads off of bats.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He never challenged an official's decision or offered an excuse. If he did drugs, it was somebody else's idea. In some circles he might be regarded as promiscuous, but that was somebody else's idea, too."
That was our colleague Bill Littlefield, of NPR's Only A Game, giving his eulogy for a famous sports hero who died this week at the ripe old age of 28. Who was it?
HINT: He also never recorded a rap record, but that's because he couldn't talk.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I'm sad to say that the board of directors didn't just fiddle while [the company] burned; some of them toasted marshmallows over the flames."
That's Senator Joe Lieberman making a campfire analogy as part of his own grilling of the Board of Directors of what company?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "I had to give it up. That car was an invitation for one of the grandchildren to get arrested. And that's all we need."
That's a high-profile grandmother explaining to Newsweek why she decided to sell her much-loved black Trans Am. Who, at 76 years of age, is toning down her wild side to provide a better example for her fun-loving granddaughters?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "The (song) list is a bit down the road. It just depends if we can remember them."
That's a guitarist shining a light on the fact that he and his mates' just-announced concert tour will take place 40 years after the band got together. What band might need some gingko biloba to remember their hits?
HINT: Now when they sing "Start Me Up," they may be talking about their own pacemakers.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Drop this on the people at Frommer's:
Lufthansa has blitzed tourist commerce.
Once you get your funds in,
You'll fly over London;
In old World War II German __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Oh what will I do with you, hon?
You squirm, can't sit still always run.
You make me so nervous.
I do not deserve this.
Oh, you'll be the death of me __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
My "bananas for kids" plan seemed clunky.
But it swung votes and proved to be spunky.
For my mayor's silk ascot
I'll quit as team mascot.
No more a professional _________.
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Answer 3
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