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June 1, 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: "They only let us join when it stopped meaning anything."
That's a Russian diplomat saying that Russia's official entrance into something isn't the big historic deal that everyone's making it out to be…Russia's entrance into…what?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Very good. The guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental. ... I'm impressed -- que bueno."
That's someone getting a little testy this week when an NBC reporter asked a question in French. Who was it?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The important thing for all of us to remember today is ... it's not just about …one younger man and one older man extending their careers at more than minimum wage."
That's one of TV's big newsmen announcing he was handing off his ten-million dollar a year job to a younger man. Who's going to be leaving the airwaves in 2004?
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Answer 3
Panel Question
Question 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
The newest snack sensation on the streets of Cairo, Egypt is a cheese flavored potato chip that uses whom as its colorful marketing mascot?
Hint: It's an Intifada of Flavor!
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Answer 1
Question 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
You may remember that last weekend, authorities warned the terrorists might be planning attacks against the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, causing the cancelation of the Bridge's birthday celebration. Well this week it was revealed that this specific threat came from a top terrorism suspect who was only able to identify the two landmarks by saying he saw them…where?
Hint: The suspect was Mothra
Hint: The suspect also warned against fighter jets being grabbed down from the sky.
Hint: The bridge and statue would be destroyed by a large man in a green suit.
Hint: it will probably make Roland Emmerich happy to find out that at least one person saw this turkey...
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Answer 2
Question 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
In an effort to prove that they can work together and aren't angry at one another, House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas did what to Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin?
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Old man Bush shouldn't knock it so cockily
For the green stalks help stomachs quite stockily.
It's a brave counteracter
To helicobacter,
This sprouty green veggy called __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
I'm at the bar. "Sit down here, pal," I drawl.
I'll tell you how I lost my gal, my doll.
I'll be better tomorrow.
Now I'll cremate my sorrow.
I'll warm up my blues with this __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
No, don't do the dishes now, honey.
But make hay while it is still sunny.
Small things we'll subcontract
For it is a hard fact
That time is worth its share of __________.
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Answer 3
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