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June 22, 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'm kind of like Che Guevera... I lead the revolution but at some point I turn it over to someone else."
Who was that, announcing he's leaving the political stage with a statement just as preposterous as the ones he regularly made while in office?
HINT: He's just like Che, except he's taller, balder, and really, really, really into capitalism.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I think that the United States always has seen us as inferior and it always has tried to humiliate us. And now they've really gone and done it."
That was Alejandro Duarte of Mexico City. What mean, humiliating, unfair thing did the U.S. do to our neighbor to the south?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: I'm not the type of guy that is going to spend a lot of time in a garage with Bob Woodward."
That was Pat Buchanan denying, in the strongest terms possible, that he was the mysterious figure known as what?
HINT: It's also hard to believe he'd rat out Richard Nixon.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If it were only the Girl Scouts who came to the door, the issue of unwanted solicitors would never have reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Because, really: Is it ever a bad time to buy cookies?"
That's the Oregonian newspaper pointing out that a case involving door-to-door solicitation made it to the Supreme Court because of the organization involved. What group had its right to bang on your door forever enshrined by the highest court in the land?
HINT: Girl Scouts don't try to convert you.
• Answer 4
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CARL: "The dinner parties, the summer place in the Hamptons, insider trading -- it's all part of the same package. I think at least if there's no photograph of her being taken away in leg irons, for the moment it's not going to do that much harm."
That's NPR's and Advertising Age's Bob Garfield downplaying reports that the queen of homemaking is being damaged by allegations of insider trading. Who will thrive even if she's sent to the prison farm?
HINT: Greed is a good thing.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Some of my best friends are knights. It is a much maligned group, but I am very happy to be joining them... I won't be giving up my day job."
That's someone expressing his "satisfaction" over being knighted by Queen Elizabeth last weekend. Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The sponsors are yelling, "Ye-gads!
How will viewers follow the fads?
Violence and sex
Have adverse effects.
It makes them forget all the __________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The gray matter under my fez hurt.
It's arid and it's a low-res dirt.
The drought does much harm,
Ask any old marm.
You just cannot farm in the __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
With Bones and Spock they've teamed me up.
We use tech stuff that Trekkies dreamed up.
The transporter angle meant
Quantum entanglement.
So, Scotty, oh please, _____ _____ _____.
•Answer 3
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