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July 27, 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: Question: Do I still have to pay my MCI bills?
Answer: Yes.
That was from a question and answer piece in The Washington Post, giving readers some useful facts about what big bankruptcy this week?
HINT: You have to pay their bills, but under the rules of Chapter 11, they don't have to pay theirs.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Okay... I've got to get back to work now -- and by the way, I'm not resigning."
That was someone saying farewell -- but only for the moment -- to his colleagues at the White House. Who's not quitting, no matter how much his boss ignores him?
HINT: He has a reputation as a good soldier, even though he isn't one any more.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Seven 34-ounce beers, seven 16-ounce beers, a happy hour draft beer, one martini and a Western burger."
That, according to court records, is the $122 bar tab paid by two men six hours before they were scheduled to do what?
 See the bar tab!
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I suggested this would be a good time for us to raise the profile of the agency. The markets are a little bit flustered. The agency has been in the news. And the chairman said, 'Yes, let's send that up there, this is good timing.'"
That's Brian Gross of a government agency that this week tried, and failed, to get a nice raise for its chairman. Name that agency.
HINT: Perhaps they should wait until all the big businesses they supposedly regulate stop imploding.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I think it's an indication of their intelligence. I'm not here to be friends with a bunch of people who stand at the side of the road, who've had too much to drink and want to yell."
That's an American athlete criticizing French fans who stand on the side of the road and loudly accuse him of being doped up. Who doesn't appreciate French sensibilities?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "All he needs to know is how to put on his suit and what not to touch. We could even train a monkey to do this -- in less time than that."
That's a Russian journalist trying to assure the world that a young man who's now scheduled to go to the International Space Station probably won't mess things up any more than a trained monkey. Who?
HINT: This also is a quote about a Lance in the news.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
You'll do anything for some new drugs,
You entomological thugs.
Get out of our nest.
Now who is the pest?
You medical squishers of __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
These bones won't be ground up for gelatin.
I knew that you'd throw the word "zealot" in.
This deed, I presume, is
Both post- and exhumous
Adopt and then baptize a __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
"Oh, how will Red Cross pick this wretch up?"
Would somebody please shut that kvetch up?
This sauce of tomato
Is bright, just like day-glo
Our helipad's drawn up in __________.
•Answer 3
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