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December 7, 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: "[They moved] quickly through darkened rooms with flashlights, stopping occasionally to peruse, for example, a utility room or a refrigerator. 'Marmalade,' one announced after looking over a jar."
That was the AP's solemn description of the first time outside observers have ever been allowed where?
HINT: They weren't looking for marmalade, unless you can think marmalade is a chemical weapon.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "A recount that showed Richard Simmons was the sexiest man alive would... have surprised me less than [his] appointment... to uncover government lapses and level with the public."
That's CNN Pundit Mark Shields. He was one of many who were in shock after the Bush administration appointed what controversial figure to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks?
HINT: He doesn't know what everybody's so upset about.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You don't want to be hugging the commode. That's not what people have in mind for a vacation."
That's Roger Sanderson, from the Florida Department of Health stating the obvious to The St. Petersburg Times. Where have all the guests recently been worshipping at the Porcelain Altar?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "When it comes to his hair, [he] is very, very particular. The coloring and the highlighting, the layering... but the results are fabulous."
That, according to Matt Drudge, is what one unidentified hair stylist had to say about a certain Democratic senator who announced his intention to run for the White House in 2004. What presidential hopeful saw his campaign begin, not with policy criticisms, but a to-do about his 'do?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He was mean; he was courtly. He was stubborn; he was supple. He was bullheaded; he was charming... He had orange hair and fathered a child when he was 69 years old."
That's David Shribman in The Boston Globe paying tribute to a man who turned 100 this week. Who?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Jeez, the way people are reacting, you would think we called Saddam Hussein the Sexiest Man Alive."
That's a spokesman for People on the negative reaction to the magazine's recent declaration that who is the sexiest man alive?
HINT: I hate to say it, but this man's fiancée has a big butt.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
My brain casing's rather thin-walled,
So my psyche is easily galled.
I thought hair's regression
Had caused my depression,
But my mood might have made me go __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Once frequent strikes we were extolling.
Now, "Not again." Our eyes are rolling.
We only care
For a split or a spare.
Perfection is ruining _________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
In this marketing quest of a loon
We'll claim Mare Imbrium's dune.
So hey, diddle, diddle
for Bailey, Banks, Biddle.
Our business card's shot to the __________.
•Answer 3
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