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June 29, 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 want to focus on my salad."
That was someone making her first public statement since she was engulfed by scandal last week. Who would rather talk about arugula than a possible arraignment?
HINT: We'd make a joke here about her decorating tips for jail cells, but it's been overdone.
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Answer 1
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CARL: "Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves. This is the worst kind of political correctness run amok. What's next? Will the courts now strip 'so help me God' from the pledge taken by new presidents."
That was Sen. Kit Bond, a Republican from Missouri, expressing his indignation over a court ruling this week that declared what was unconstitutional?
HINT: President Bush is probably hoping this will become a campaign issue again, just like it was for his father.
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Answer 2
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CARL: "I think that's a sign that Starbucks will take over (everything). That means the end is near."
That's coffee drinker Steve Gibbons giving CNN his reaction to the news that "Cosmic Latte" is the winning name in the contest to name the color of what?
HINT: It kinds of makes sense, given that the most visible part of it, from here on earth, is already called the Milky Way.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
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CARL: "We have remained committed to the concept of moving forward with the concept."
That was Secretary of State Colin Powell's helpful clarification of President Bush's plan to create a state where?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "She never smoked or drank alcohol, and remained, in her words, a 'nice Jewish girl from Sioux City, Iowa,' whose public expressions of annoyance never got much stronger than 'Oh, banana oil!'"
That was from a New York Times obituary of someone who comforted millions of readers with similarly homespun, if tart, counsel for their problems. Who was it?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Yes. I never sing even in the bathroom, not even when I'm taking the shower."
That's someone who this week said that after October 12, 2005, he will never sing, not even in the tub. What BIG singer announced his pending retirement this week?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
In Edina, not far from St. Paul
We all stay inside come the fall.
When attendance was dropping
For leisurely shopping
We set up the first indoor __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
My image is no sweaty shocker.
I'm well spoken, but no heady talker.
I'm all sugar and spice
And don't age, ain't that nice?
For sweet treats, see me, __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We dress like a clammy gray Quaker.
Then up comes this whammy. Hey, take her.
No matter what era,
That's too much mascara.
Oh, tone it down, __________ __________ __________.
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Answer 3
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