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June 15, 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: "I called your [bleeping] house five times yesterday, now if you're going to disregard my [bleeping] phone calls, I'll blow you and that [bleeping] house up... This is not a [bleeping] game. My time is valuable. If I ever hear anybody else calls you and you respond within five days, I'll [bleeping] kill you."
That was just one of the many colorful, charming bon mots spoken by what celebrity outlaw, who died this week at the age of 61?
HINT: He dressed to kill... as it were.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The people have not voted. Clapping is not voting."
That's a participant in Afghanistan's Loya Jirga, the meeting where the next leader of the nation was picked this week. The meeting nearly broke down in acrimony after the leading candidate thought the applause for him meant he won. Who thought he had been elected by standing ovation?
HINT: They were probably just applauding his stylish garb.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "When they arrive back at the Champs-Elysees, they're going to have tomatoes thrown at them."
That was a Frenchman, quoted on MSNBC, speaking for all of his countrymen this week. Who had better come back to France wearing a disguise?
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Answer 3
Panel Round
Question 1
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PwC Consulting, once a part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has decided on a new name to distance itself from its former owner. PwC Consulting is changing its name to what?
HINT: The only explanation we can think of is that somebody must have been listening to the Mamas and the Papas and gotten carried away.
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Answer 1
Question 2 (Sorry, no audio is available for this question.
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Voters in a town in the Czech Republic are being aggressively courted by two different political parties. When one party boosted its popularity by handing out free booze to potential voters, the other party one-upped them and offered what?
HINT: They obviously were only after the male vote.
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Answer 2
Question 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
According to ABC News, researchers at Cambridge University have found an unusual, but seemingly effective way to diagnose certain kinds of cancer. It depends on a certain kind of assistant. Who might be running into the lab to help?
HINT: The nose knows, as long as it's also wet and cold.
HINT: These are the only physician's assistants who can be paid in biscuits.
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
This long-tailed shirt is quite a hummer.
I got it for Dad's day, this summer.
Now, under the sink,
No more will you think,
"Hey, cover yourself, mister __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
I've found out why you cannot hear, Max.
The culprit has left brownish, smeared tracks.
My cotton swab team
Has captured the gene
That causes the buildup of __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
It's more than just lip service, this is.
We're bobbing with puckered near misses.
Yes, twice is enough.
The third smack's just fluff
Let's end all these overblown __________.
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Answer 3
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