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September 28, 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 Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "We bomb anyone we think needs bombing. We invade anyone we think needs invading. We don't sign treaties, we don't ask permission, we don't plant 'taters, we don't plant cotton and we don't need no steenking badges."
That's Jon Carroll of The San Francisco Chronicle, providing a sort of executive summary of whose new foreign policy?
HINT: He was paraphrasing the president.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "Do we really want to punish [them] for being pacifists? Once those guys get rolling in the other direction, they don't really know how to put the brakes on."
That was the Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, wondering why our leaders seem to be going out of the way to snub the newly re-elected presiden of what country?
HINT: Dowd suggests that this social slight means "no more bratwurst on the White House menu."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "The U.S. Senate is a special place. I love all of you -- and especially your wives."
Those words are how an extremely senior senator ended his decades of service this week. Who said goodbye, to all the girls he's loved before?
• Answer 3
Who's Jean Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "Idiot... liar... IQ of a pencil eraser... simpleton... doofus..."
That was radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, offering his criticism of a man who got a lot of attention -- most of it negative -- for making a speech suggesting that a war with Iraq may not be the best idea. Who got called all these names?
HINT: One wonders whether this guy is now nostalgic for the days when he was just called wooden.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "Ah, my old papère, he loved [them]. When [one] would come, papère would tell us to invite everyone we knew and throw a big party. Isn't that wonderful?"
That's New Orleans native Mel Schiro telling The New York Times about the tradition in her hometown of throwing a big ol' party whenever what comes to town?
HINT: Their latest guest is named Isidore.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "To police and firefighters working the dreaded double shift, he was a godsend at the dreariest hours. To dieters, he was the devil: temptation never tasted as good as one of his honey-dipped crullers."
That was The Boston Globe's take on a man named William Rosenberg who passed away this week at the age of 86. Mr. Rosenberg was the founder of a national chain that, at least stereotypically, is revered by our men in blue. What's Mr. Rosenberg's legacy?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Let Balkans take wonderful care o'ya.
Romania? Greece? Turkey? All scarier.
So we killed a defector.
For that we're still hectored?
Come see the new lovely __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The Jefferson's "up to the sky"
Makes my little boy start to cry.
Lengthy hypotenuse
So reads their hot excuse.
School's banned him 'cause we live too __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
At the stop light we sit and we stew.
'Cause in Germany, things up they screw.
Now downtown Abu Dhabi
Has this taboo hobby:
We honk when the light has turned __________!
•Answer 3
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