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November 9, 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: "Well, that really could have gone better."
That was liberal pundit Josh Marshall, talking about an event that, yes, could have gone somewhat better for his side. What?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He was an illusion with a haircut. He never was the leader of anything."
That was columnist Jimmy Breslin's political obituary for one casualty of the Democratic disaster. What alleged leader quit his job two days after the election?
HINT: A haircut yes, but no eyebrows.
HINT: Amazingly, his aides said it was because he wanted to prepare a run for President.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Crackling like a hickory fire."
CARL: "It's beginning to get exciting as the Democrats' fingernails are starting to sweat."
CARL: "Two hands worth of white knuckles still hanging ten."
Those were just some of the immortal, effervescent observations offered on election night by whom?
HINT: Even Kenneth didn't know what frequency this guy was on Tuesday night.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "[He] poses a challenge to epistemologists everywhere: How could somebody so dumb manage to tie his shoes each morning?"
That was Holman Jenkins, of The Wall Street Journal, posing a question about a man who finally resigned his job on election night. Who was it?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "(This city) needs a Summer Games-sized terrorist bull's-eye like it needs another honking horn."
That's USA Today columnist Ian O'Connor's take on the United States Olympic Committee's decision to nominate what city for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that he has, in the parlance of his particular subculture, mad skillz.""
That's The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday's, summing up a rapper-turned-actor's successful debut on the big screen this week. Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
We take rodent boys, nut-cracking girls,
Show them trees and say, "give them some whirls."
In Moscow we need
More cute vermin to feed,
So we breed some more furry red __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Guy Fawkes Day just won't be the same
The night will be cold, dark and lame.
Taped crackle, strobe blaze
Help us keep funds we raise
It's a bonfire without a real __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Here's something space travelers recoil at:
Just who cleans the craft when they soil it?
Comet and brush
And low-gravity flush
Is not space-age enough for our __________.
•Answer 3
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