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September 14, 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)
"The Cartoon Network is sticking with its regular programming"
That was Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, dryly noting the only exception to the rule this week as every other network devoted its programming to what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "What is it with Democrats having a hard time doing this? I don't know."
That's Florida Governor Jeb Bush in The New York Times making light of the difficulties that Democrats faced yet again in their effort to do what this week in the state?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's like being in a huddle with God."
That's former Baltimore Colts tight end John Mackey, talking about his former quarterback, who died this week at the age of 69. Who was this godlike player?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
That's White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card explaining to The New York Times why the Bush administration waited until September to start trying to sell what to the world?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Plum pudding was excellent. Thanks. Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward."
That is from a thank-you note, part of a file a congressional committee provided this week to federal prosecutors so they can pursue an insider trading scandal involving pharmaceutical giant ImClone. What plum-pudding princess may soon have her day in court?
A Great Big Hint
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Quasimodo predicted all this."
That mispoken reference to Nostradamus is how a character in a TV show explains the events of Sept. 11 in its season-opening episode this weekend. What show?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Uh, ladies? Our viewers are snoring.
While dancers in hot pants are scoring.
To rouse men from slumbers,
Crunch abs, don't crunch numbers.
And wriggle a bit. Don't be __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
They mock us, say their heart is bleeding,
While right of way we're always ceding.
The big boats don't care
For us gondoliere.
It's about time that they're stopped for __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We spoon in June, crooning a tune.
And the orb in the sky makes her swoon.
But how will we spark
If the satellite's dark?
Do not fret. There's a brand new new __________.
Another Big Hint
•Answer 3
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