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October 26, 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)
Three questions asked by people who report the news, about a person in the news.
CARL: FOX's Alan Colmes -- "Will this person strike again?"
CNN's Connie Chung -- "So will he cease and desist?"
CNN's Larry King -- "Would he be inclined to watch this program?"
Who was Larry hoping would be in his demographic?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's been raining, so she needs to sweep the porch because the president of China is coming."
That's George W. Bush talking about the important diplomatic job he delegated to whom?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Will somebody please call PETA and tell them to protest what could be the most heinous form of animal exploitation in entertainment since Siegfried met Roy?"
That's the San Francisco Chronicle's Emil Guillermo on an animal that's became newsworthy the past few weeks. What animal?
HINT: Note that he's a San Francisco writer -- a city that is highly allergic to this creature this week.
HINT: This animal only shows up after the sixth inning.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Um... I like his Mom very much."
So, when pressed to say something nice about his opponent during a televised debate, that was the best thing that Florida gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride could come up with. About whom?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I always said to my wife... going up to Hyannis Port is like being with a bunch of clones. Everyone thinks alike, everyone agrees on everything and so I come in there, and I think differently, and so I think they liked that."
That's someone explaining to NBC that he thinks his wife's family of well-known Democrats actually likes his politics. Who?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to write it. Even if you're better you're worse. I'm giving it to you straight: you don't (BLEEP) around with a classic."
That's former Paramount studio chief Bob Evans, talking about Random House's search this week for an author to add a fourth volume in the series about what crime family?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
You want 'nouncements? Well, here is another'n.
It seems that plain language they're smother'n.
I'm bumfuzzled that diction
Caused corporate friction.
Now I'm 'fraid because I sound too __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
To find out why flesh gets less firm
I'll study soil diggers that squirm.
I won't look at anyone's,
Just fat ones and skinny ones.
I'll measure the flab on this __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Because we don't swim as they wish
And fight over every small dish,
They lay down firm rules
And take us to schools.
They'll teach table manners to __________.
•Answer 3
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