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June 8, 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: "[She has an] earnest Midwestern voice that evoked another by-the-book woman in a man's world of crime fighting -- Marge Gunderson in the movie, Fargo."
That was The New York Times approvingly describing a woman who made her public debut in Congress this week. Who was it?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "The report also suggests an upside. Growing seasons in northern areas could last longer, crops and timber become more plentiful, therefore cheaper. Fuel bills could be lower. There could be more warm weather for construction or recreation."
That's NBC's Bob Hager describing a Bush administration report, that looks at the bright side of what?
HINT: So if you want to sunbathe in January, buy a second SUV!
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Answer 2
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CARL: "That was amazing. I managed to see [her] and she looked just how she does on her pictures. She wasn't moving at all, just like on the stamps."
That was Kelly Benjamin, 21, one of the thousands of people on the streets of London this week who came out to celebrate what?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
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CARL: "It's soundproof. It's supposedly bug-proof. It's not politics-proof."
That's Newsweek's Howard Fineman on MSNBC's Hardball talking about a room that was in the news this week. What is going on in that supposedly secure room?
HINT: It's in the U.S. Capitol.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "Because I shook hands with him once before and I thought there should be reciprocation. Maybe I was waiting for him to shake hands with me this time."
That's someone explaining why he didn't shake hands with his Indian counterpart this week at a Central Asian summit. Who this week felt it was the other guy's turn to play nice?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Stop talking... I'm the director here."
That's what Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ira Gammerman said when someone who's used to yelling "CUT!" went on a little too long on the stand. Which director was taking direction in court this week?
HINT: He's accusing someone of taking the money and running.
HINT: The filmmaker did not say the judge was Bananas.
HINT: His next movie may be called; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lawsuits But Were Afraid to Ask.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Yes, sir, I've got three bags full.
I don't shear, but a net I do pull.
I inject the whole flock
Who then simply defrock.
I just bend down and pick up the __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The server says, "just a sec, ma'am.
The tin's lid is stuck. Oh, McDamn!
This canned pork meat jelly
Is sticky and smelly.
I hate this new fast food, __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
It's a shame to the stars who have in it played.
But their drink's not half bad if you think it, Wade.
The Astros' sign, "Enron"
Was packed up and then gone,
Replaced by the juicy sign, "__________."
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Answer 3
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