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August 31, 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)
"I can't do it as much. It is one of the saddest things about the presidency."
That was President Bush, from an interview he did for the cover story of a national magazine. According to him, the very saddest thing about his burden of power is that he can't do what as much as he would like?
HINT: The word laps has a completely different meaning for this president than it did for his predecessor.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "65,000 people will attend, producing as many greenhouse gases in two weeks as would 500,000 Africans in a year."
That is from an editorial in Britain's Sunday Times criticizing what conference happening this week in Johannesburg, South Africa?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's not that we're greedy or money-hungry. We're just trying to get a deal done like any other union, like the people in Pittsburgh working for unions, and towns like that."
That was a man named Luis Gonzales, defending his union's right to strike. What kind of average working stiff is Mr. Gonzales?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I really resent being accused of being a wimp [just] because I want to think it through."
That's former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger who's been called a wuss. He's one of the prominent Republicans who have recently said we should think before doing what?
HINT: His critics say that if we hadn't stopped to think back in 1991, we wouldn't have this problem today!
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I was really looking forward to the Opening Ceremony. We could release maybe 400 lobbyists and 300 government tax attorneys in pinstripe suits and black wing-tips. And by 2012 we'd have located where Dick Cheney lived, and we could set him free at midfield."
That's the Washington Post's Tony Kornheiser expressing his personal disappointment about Washington, D.C. losing its bid to host what?
HINT: Mr. Kornheiser is a sports writer.
HINT: They'd light the torch by dropping in a bunch of burning White House Energy Task Force records.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I think [my hair] would attack whoever tried to cut it. As I grew with the show, it grew with me."
That's a young man named Justin Gwarini, describing the unique qualities of his veritable mushroom cloud of a hairstyle, which may help him become the next Justin Timberlake or David Cassidy. Where can we see Justin and his fabulous hair?
HINT: Some people say this show is the worst example of rigged voting since the last presidential election.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Home team's up, it's C.U.'s final drive.
Time is short but we keep hope alive.
Then the line referee
Misses down number three,
And we finally score on down __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Afraid of growth, we used droll scrimped tricks.
We blocked the vote with our "old wimp" cliques.
Scorning medals and torches
We rest on our porches.
We turned down the Winter __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
My car's pilloried, trapped like some brute.
And the cop says my pleas are all moot.
"The one way to lick it's
To pay off your tickets.
Then we'll free your car from the __________."
•Answer 3
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