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October 19, 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: "This is a unique manifestation of democracy which is superior to all other forms of democracies."
That's an election official in a country that held nationwide balloting this week. Which country, according to him, is the standard to which all other democracies should aspire?
HINT: As proof of their perfection, the winning candidate got exactly 100 percent of the vote.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Your president called us a member of the axis of evil. Of course, we have a nuclear program."
That according to CNN, is pretty much how the official of a country justified breaking a treaty and starting a nuclear program. What country said it reached for the nuclear stick because President Bush called them a name?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "After a while I found myself wishing they would, on their island wanderings, run into Tom Hanks and his volleyball and exchange their grilled octopus recipe for some acting lessons."
That's A.O. Scott in the New York Times offering one of the myriad pans to a big singing star's new movie. Whose movie led Scott to long for a visit from Tom Hanks' character in Castaway?
HINT: This star's no longer Like A Virgin when it comes to bad reviews.
HINT: The Body of Evidence leads one to say she should never make a movie again.
HINT: She should never again be allowed to Express Herself on film.
HINT: She's Desperately Seeking credibility as an actress.
HINT: She crossed the Borderline of bad acting.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It will pit fog versus smog, cioppino versus chile verde, politically correct versus politically conservative, Web-surfing versus wave surfing, and the Grateful Dead versus Los Lobos. The rest of the country will have to get on the bandwagon or sit it out."
That's the Los Angeles Times' take on something that, this year, no matter the outcome, will belong to the Golden State. What?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "They could bring Rambo in here, but with the laws we have in Mexico -- nothing doing."
That, from The New York Times, is a Mexico City policeman reacting to the news that someone is going to be bringing his zero tolerance crime policies to Mexico City. Who's been hired to clean up across the border?
HINT: The squeegee guys down in Mexico City are shaking in their huaraches.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "What's needed to revive the show is for someone to get whacked -- fast, and as violently as possible."
That's The New York Post's take on a show that some say has sunk into the doldrums. What show?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Eight years with probation's her sin's fate.
The jumpsuit sure makes her look thin, great!
Though contestants are penal
Our judges aren't venal
They'll pick the most beautiful __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
At the car show the drivers converse,
"She's a beaut, but her handling's perverse.
Just trying to park
Is a shot in the dark
'Cause she's too hard to put in __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Ginger faced operations with dread.
"Doctor, drugs do not go to my head.
Lack of melanin's why
Little pain makes me cry.
I feel more pain cause my hair is __________.
•Answer 3
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