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October 12, 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: "I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: You disarm, or we will."
Who was that, assuring his enemies they'd better drop their weapons, or we'll beat them to it?
• Answer 1
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CARL: "While other former presidents played golf or made speeches, this one -- like some jazzed superhero -- circles the globe at 30,000 feet, seeking opportunities to do good."
That's how Time Magazine once described the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. Who?
 Big Ol' Hint
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL (singing): "HEY BUD. CONTRACT THIS!"
That's a T-shirt made by a professional baseball player. The message is aimed at Commissioner Bud Selig who last year tried to get rid of the player's team through contraction. Which team won't go gently into that good night?
• Answer 3
Panel Round
Question 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
Montana Republican Mike Taylor became the second U.S. Senate candidate to quit his race this month because of the damage he says was done to his reputation by a Democratic ad that showed him in his former job as a what?
HINT: Apparently in Montana, a candidate is not allowed to be TOO fabulous.
HINT: His new slogan could have been: "Mike Taylor will clip spending and shave taxes."
• Answer 1
Question 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
The college newspaper at Washington State University apologized after it inaccurately translated the Spanish phrase "Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza" as what?
• Answer 2
Question 3 (Sorry, there is no audio available for this question.)
A man from American history is getting a modern-day makeover. Out are the images that made him seem old and dusty. In is a new image portraying him as a 20-something hunk. Who's getting a dose of posthumous hip?
HINT: Step one: Get rid of those wooden teeth.
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
This Mastercard bill, sailors dread it.
Cuz they got it to get it. You get it?
Clothes were shedded, girls bedded
On funds we abetted.
We paid dancers on government __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
From scents that we found in her tomb
We've mixed up a sexier bloom.
What charmed Nefertiti
Will work on your sweetie.
She'll fall for our pharaoh's __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
He won't ape your lackluster vanilla.
He's a quick, sharp, strong corporate killa.
Sure, he beat his chest,
But that's why he's the best.
My CEO's like a __________.
•Answer 3
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