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May 18, 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?
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CARL: "What did George Bush know and when Dick Cheney explain it to him?"
That's Tonight Show host Jay Leno's take on the big proto-scandal on the front pages this week; the revelation that the president might -- might -- have known more than previously admitted about what, before it happened?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "I wish he'd stay home where he belongs."
That's former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger on this week's bit of freestyle diplomacy: a trip to Cuba by whom?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing."
That's actress Natalie Portman. What thing isn't she really into?
HINT: She may not be into it, but she's in it.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time?
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CARL: "The bill is a horror show. It is a piñata. You can smash it from any angle, and pork is going to fall out of this thing. It becomes a feeding frenzy, and it's like pigs at a trough, and enough metaphors."
That's The National Review's Jonas Goldberg explaining why Congress voted for, and President Bush signed, a bill providing billions in subsidies for who?
HINT: Mr Bush hopes to really "milk" this bill for political advantage.
HINT: Pork itself is a hint.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "All in all, a small, useful piece of paper."
That's a former Russian negotiator's rather understated take this week on what three-page document that made big news?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Slogans that ended up in the trash included: "New York, New York, It's a Heck of a State" and "New York. A State for All Seasons."
Those were two of the self-promoting slogans the state of New York turned down exactly 25 years ago. Instead they accepted a short sentence that's become part of the vernacular. What was that sentence?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
It sings without conviction, Mary.
It's like some high-tech fiction. Scary.
Pimpdaddysupreme
Makes songs from phonemes
As gleaned from a Web __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
If you purr, scratch and furrow wee brows
Your human falls to his knees now.
No need to be modest,
You Egyptian goddess.
The humans shall heed your __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
At Kenner, my staff did not lay low.
They molded great toys at my say-so.
Easy-bake was a laugh,
So's the weird Spirograph,
And the modeling compound called __________.
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Answer 3
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