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December 21, 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: "I am going to hang in there."
That was someone speaking earlier this week. But on Friday we discovered he would not be hanging in there.
HINT: Well, he was hung... by his fellow Republicans.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "As soon as he got into that hot tub, I knew he wasn't running."
That was a man named Chris Lehane, telling The Washington Post he knew his former boss wasn't running for president the second he saw him half naked on Saturday Night Live. Who has decided to sit it out in 2004?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's me... or him!"
That was a woman letting her fiance know that he could either have her or his best friend. Who has called off her wedding until the groom-to-be proves his loyalty?
HINT: On the one hand, his friend and he won an Oscar together... on the other hand, she has a big butt.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You're telling me that a Harvard law graduate is going to work in an office 1,700 feet in the air? No way. There's no way we're going to design a phallo-centric terrorist target."
That's architect Peter Eisenman defending in The Washington Post his, not so tall, not so phallic, design to rebuild what?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: If I have misspelled or mischaracterized anything, please send corrections to (BLEEP)-me-@-I-dont-give-a-BLEEP.com.
That's Slate.com movie critic David Edelstein. He was preempting criticism from the notoriously obsessive fans of what big movie that opened this week?
Hint: You may have noticed the guys on the sidewalk dressed like hobbits.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Clark and Lewis? Costello and Abbott? Hammerstein and Rodgers?"
That's Geoff Boucher in The Baltimore Sun telling Paul McCartney not to change the order of something for the simple reason that it would sound funny to say. What?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Percentages? Pi? The wrong path.
Now you'll face this Italian chef's wrath.
Remus and Romulus
Loathe your food formulas.
You can't make a pizza with __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Stuck on my purgatorial track,
I thought, maybe I'd get to go back.
But, you see, some pontificate
Stopped death's certificate
Because the ink had to be __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Things heat up. The car gets very smoky.
Then he lets loose in some scary no-key.
And on Beijing's turnpike
He says "Hand me the mic."
Yes, his car's got built-in __________.
•Answer 3
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