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November 16, 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: "Big boys have big toys."
That's a psychologist who does profiling for the U.S. government trying to explain that someone's obsession with weapons of mass destruction is just a matter of "mine's bigger than yours..." Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "(She's) about as San Francisco as you can get without digging up Jerry Garcia."
That's one conservative editorialist's opinion of a woman who, despite her status as a "San Francisco Liberal," took the reins of power among House Democrats this week.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "What I knew that was different this time is that... It was too powerful... This time it was just smothering me and -- so hot, you know, that it was just like -- it made me afraid. And for the first time in my life, I cried incredible purging tears of happiness."
That's somebody explaining to ABC's Diane Sawyer why her impending marriage is going to be so, so different than her last two marriages, neither of which lasted a year. Who's so in love, this time, it makes her afraid?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I just don't want to say anything to make a fool of myself."
That's a man named Dean Barkley expressing the rather low expectation he has of himself during his one-month tenure as a what?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars."
That's a man giving bad news to his three kids. They won't be getting the bulk of his fortune when he passes away. Who said this week he's going to make his kids earn their billions just like he did?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If you are prepared to become the most radical Islamist and are prepared to get circumcised, I invite you to Moscow. We have specialists that deal with this problem."
That's someone answering a reporter's critical question about the conduct of Russian troops in Chechnya. Who told a reporter to cut both the questions and his... well, you know.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Here his beard breaks a plastic comb, groovy.
And here he and Guevara roamed juvie.
Our dear super eight
Caught some footage that's great
Let's watch Fidel Castro's _____ _____.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
With steam wands we justly have fought. Hey,
We've beat all that Starbucks hath wrought, nay?
The crowd cheers, "Barista!
Get off of your keister.
And craft some fine art with your __________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Don't pass up our offer and blunder chance
Let pounds melt away in a wonder-dance.
No diet works quicker
Than our magic knickers
Just squeeze yourself into these __________.
•Answer 3
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