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July 13, 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: "This was supposed to be a tribute to Ted. Thanks a lot. Ted would be spinning in his grave had his son not frozen him and placed him upside down in a refrigerator."
That's ESPN's Jim Caple venting his frustration over an event this week that was supposed to include a salute to Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams. What event failed to go all the way?
• Answer 1
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CARL: "I get good advice, if you will, from their people, based upon how we are doing business and how we are operating, over and above the normal, by-the-books auditing arrangement."
That's Vice President Dick Cheney in a promotional video he agreed to appear in a few years back touting what firm?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If you fight for me, you're fighting for all black people, dead and alive."
That was someone who, after a number of, shall we say, personal reconstructions, this week metamorphosed into a kind of civil rights activist. Who might be putting out a dance-mix of "We Shall Overcome?"
HINT: We honestly didn't know he was still black.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Al Qaeda doesn't need to buy nuclear material to smuggle a dirty bomb into our country: Congress is doing the hard work for them."
That's Senator John Ensign of Nevada commenting on a bill affecting his state -- a bill he called "The Terrorist Facilitation Act." What is this legislation that had the Nevada senator so upset?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "On Tuesday, (he criticizes) Wall Street for exactly this kind of accounting trickery. When he's finished, maybe we can ask Bill Clinton to offer a few words in defense of marital fidelity."
That was a columnist in a Louisiana newspaper, talking about someone's efforts this week to admonish big business for questionable ethics. Who may have been a pot calling a kettle black?
• Answer 5
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CARL: "I'll pay $25 to go myself if she can dance around a disco half as well as she can dance around the issues."
That was a spokesman for Florida Governor Jeb Bush, discussing somebody's plan to energize her campaign with a disco dance fundraiser. Who?
HINT: She got the idea from Saturday Night Live.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Life in customer service is bad.
Did you feel how he punched the keypad?
But my mood's iron-clad,
For my phone's new doo-dad
Helps me stave off the ones who are __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
It lurks in the deep with a ranklin' swish.
With razor-sharp teeth and strong shanks that squish.
The Asian-born snakehead
Will eat the whole lake dead.
They're calling this horror a __________.
 HINT: See the snakehead here.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Hey, Hal? Here, meet Hope. Work together.
She'll lift you up from your sad tether.
Her hard drive is quickened
By wings of a chicken.
Her chips are pressed out of a __________.
•Answer 3
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