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October 5, 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: "When did we become such an unforgiving people?"
That's a New Jersey senator waxing pathetic while withdrawing his name from consideration for re-election in November. Who's blaming us for blaming him?
HINT: We think, given his home state, he may be considering a career in waste management.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: After decades of technological advancement, post-industrial reinvention and the miracle of globalization, the U.S. economy can apparently still be brought to its knees by one of organized labor's museum pieces.
That was Steve Lopez, of The Los Angeles Times, marveling that what museum pieces of labor can still wield considerable power just by not doing their jobs?
HINT: This job is now more about operating high-tech equipment than picking stuff up, so in the remake of the movie about them, the Marlon Brando role will be played by David Schwimmer.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL (singing): "Scattered pictures of the House we left behind. Lovely Democratic memories, of the way we were."
That's how a singer reworked one of her hits at a fundraiser where she helped raise $6 million for Democrats in one night. Who was it?
HINT: She also made some news by quoting something from Shakespeare that wasn't.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I saw something today I've never seen before... a flock of ducks flying backwards."
That's NPR's John Burnett who was sent this week to cover what?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I think somebody will give her a few instructions prior to, but there will be nothing major and no practice,"
That was a spokesman named John Anderson, assuring us that his employer will not be preparing before she performs the ceremonial puck drop at a hockey game this weekend in Vancouver... who'll be stepping gingerly onto the ice?
HINT: She'll drop the puck with one hand, and clutch her trademark purse with the other.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Billionaire Son of Mobster, Enemy of Journalism, and Nixon Toady Exits for Hell -- Forced To Leave Picassos and van Goghs at Metropolitan Museum."
That was Jack Schafer of Slate.com, offering his own scathing headline for the obituary of someone who left us this week at the age of 94. Who was this man who, it turns out, may have bought the respectability he couldn't earn with his deeds?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Nevada is one careless owna
And Clark County's an embarrassed lone-a
A century it takes us
To claim ol' Las Vegas.
It almost was in __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
I admire the calm and the views.
I'm eccentric and rich, why refuse?
Once the asking price we know
For this here casino,
We'll double it. Yours, Howard __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Just look at our crisply made beds
And our uniform state-issued threads.
Since the government seizure
Of this house of leisure
Our brothel is run by the __________.
•Answer 3
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