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July 20, 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: "Let me see if I understand the new plan: The guy who comes to my home to fix the cable TV, bending over and showing his butt, is our first line of defense against terrorism."
That's a CNN viewer in Maryland, writing to the show Crossfire to question a new Bush administration initative which asks cable installers, as well as people like bus drivers, repairmen and dogwalkers, to do what?
HINT: It'll explain why the milkman is talking into his shoe.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "These hearings have shown beyond reasonable doubt that (he) is an ignorant, offensive, sexist, deranged, anti-Semitic fanatic. Still, he may be innocent."
That's constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley saying that just because a certain defendant screamed he was guilty this week, that doesn't mean he's actually guilty. Name that defendant.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Who is she and where is she and how much can we pay her? We've got to wear him out somehow, haven't we?"
That's golfer Nick Faldo wondering, tongue in cheek, how he might find a professional woman, as it were, to somehow distract whom?
HINT: It may be the only way Faldo will ever win another major championship.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I think any father who knows him would be proud to claim him as a son. President Bush would be proud to have him as a son. He's a really good kid."
That's a man singing the praises of his son who was sentenced this week to 20 years in prison for felonious acts against America and Americans. Who is this strapping young lad?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You will never defeat me this time. Never! Even if you come together from all over the world, and invite all the devils as well, to stand by you!"
That's someone this week saying "just try to form a multi-nation coalition to invade my country and defeat me... just try it!" Who was daring the world to take him down?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If they lie again, I'm going to go over and kick 'em in the crotch. Quite frankly, Scarlett, I am prepared to be beamed up."
That's a man defending himself, sort of, in front of the House Ethics Committee. Who may have asked to beamed up for the last time this week?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
On top of the tube, warm and fat,
She eyes birds, bouncing balls and a rat.
Her back arches with glee,
But there's nothing for me.
I'm watching TV with my __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
No, Texas is really not ready.
Their beads don't match up to our eddy.
We open our sluices
And stew in our juices.
Yes, Nawlins is surely most __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
If my voice ululation's too motile,
My head might explode or my throat'll.
So give me cough drops
But don't call the cops.
Stay calm while I practice my __________.
•Answer 3
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