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August 17, 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)
"There was a range of opinion: Some people thought he's doing a magnificent job, while others insisted that he is doing an extremely magnificent job."
That's a Washington Post editorial on the wide range of opinions expressed this week... at what event?
HINT: If people forgot what they were supposed to say, they could just read the slogans off the TV backdrops.
• Answer 1
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CARL: "This is not about pulling olives off salads. This is something much more fundamental."
That's a corporate exec talking about the hard times his industry is going through... what industry realized this week that it's going to have to do more than make the food worse than it already is, if it wants to survive?
HINT: We're trying to avoid using the words "crash" and "free fall" when talking about this segment of the economy.
• Answer 2
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CARL: "We're fighting for a legacy here... We're about synchronization, keeping our legs together."
That battle cry was from a woman named Debby Murphy... who's trying to keep herself and her comrades from losing their jobs. What famous group is promising to go out kicking?
HINT: They go out kicking, they go on kicking, pretty much every time you see them, they're kicking.
• Answer 3
It's been 25 years since Elvis "disappeared from the public view." In honor of that, we have three Elvis questions for our guest.
Question 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
Hal Wallis produced most of Elvis's early pictures, and Allan Weiss wrote six of them. Weiss says his instructions were simple... what were they?
A) Make sure the hero never does wrong, never cries, and never has to make a speech more than three sentences long.
B) Create a believable framework for 12 songs and a LOT of girls.
C) As long as you finish it in a week, do what you want.
• Answer 1
Question 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
Even though Viva Las Vegas was one of Elvis' biggest popular sucesses, his manager Colonel Parker wasn't happy: the movie cost too much to make, which cut into his profits. So he set out to find a new producer who knew the value of a dollar... and he found Sam Katzman, who got the job based on his success with what previous picture?
a) The Monster From Key Biscayne
b) Hootenany Hoot
c) The Kid Who Loved To Love
• Answer 2
Question 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
Some of the Elvis movies have pretty odd titles, such as Tickle Me, The Trouble with Girls, and Harum Scarum. But 1968's Live a Little, Love A Little... could have been worse... it could have had the same title as the book it's based on. That book was titled:
A) Sex Lives of the Poor and Completely Obscure
B) Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips
C) The Man Who Could Feel Almost Nothing
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Indiana Jones says, "Oh, dad nab it.
It's just like that long-ears to grab it.
With my whip and a carrot
I'll get him to share it,
The trove that was found by a __________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
He thinks surnames' links need some knifin',
And his lawsuit our funds soon will siphon.
He want an injunction
to break my conjunction.
He says, "DASH it all, snap off that __________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Not Sesame Street. My hotel. Go.
You'll tickle me where? I say hell, no!
I don't buckle, I rough it.
I say, hey, Muppet, stuff it.
I won't take advice from you, __________.
•Answer 3
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