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November 23, 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: "With a battle plan like the Bush administration is proposing, instead of crossing the Delaware to capture the Hessian soldiers on Christmas Day, George Washington would have stayed on his side of the river and built a bureaucracy... I imagine Nathan Hale declaring, 'I have but one life to lose for my bureaucracy.'"
That's Senator Robert Byrd railing against a new bureaucracy that, despite Byrd's wrath, was indeed created this week. Name that bureaucracy.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Kudos to Army's top brass for intercepting this axis of fabulousness before it could do any real damage."
That's Comedy Central's Jon Stewart mocking the U.S. Army which has fired six highly prized students of Arabic because they are what?
HINT: apparently, according to the army, there is something wrong with that.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I have high skills, but that is not the point. It's a question of inspiration. To paint His Excellency is the highest honor possible for any artist. It is simply not possible to paint him badly."
That's an artist named Salaam Abid who is the go-to guy when it comes to official portraits of a certain world leader. Who is this man that Mr. Abid says is so impressive he cannot be painted badly?
HINT: The punishment for painting him badly is instant death.
HINT: Oils.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You can imagine [him] sulking in his tent drinking tea and wondering if he's chopped liver, muttering that the only American who's making a stink about catching him is Tom Daschle, whoever that guy is."
That was the always-pungent Maureen Dowd of The New York Times. She was speculating that jealousy was the motive for who's decision to let the world know he's still alive?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He variously took codeine, Demerol and methadone. Ritalin, a stimulant; meprobamate and librium for anxiety; barbiturates for sleep; thyroid hormone; and injections of a blood derivative, gamma globulin."
Those, it turns out, were some of the ingredients of a pharmaceutical cornucopia taken by an important historical figure. Who, according to medical archives, might have spent much of his waking hours stoned out of his gourd?
HINT: It's a former president.
HINT: The tragedy of it is he slept with Marilyn Monroe, but he couldn't remember doing it.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Why are millions of people so riveted by this spectacle of cattiness, humiliation and general female degradation?"
That was Paul Farhi, of The Washington Post, shaking his rhetorical head over the ratings success of what reality show, which had its finale this week?
HINT: Amazingly, it kicked Victoria's Secret frilly butt on Wednesday night
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
A sham simulacrum of ham.
These cans pack mad taste-whams per gram.
For processed pink meat
Hawaii can't be beat
In per capita intake of __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
In Hannibal's funny, dark vein
He paddles out past the shark's lane.
Ma Clemens's son
Goes out surfing for fun
And sends home a tale by _________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We're tan and unmarred by a stray blotch.
We've learned the beach rescue tricks they botch.
But our efforts were moot,
Like our bribes and red suits.
Our islands were turned down by __________.
•Answer 3
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