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January 11, 2003
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)
"It will all work out in the end. Trust me."
That was an unnamed administration official reassuring us, via The New York Times, that the numbers will all work out if what big new plan takes effect?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "A well-rounded 5' 3", he cuts a slightly ridiculous figure dressed in a Mao suit, wearing high-heeled shoes and sporting a pouffy bouffant hairdo... An avid womanizer, he has been married at least four times, once to a dancer, and is said to favor leggy Scandinavian blondes."
That was Evan Thomas of Newsweek, describing a man who, despite his short stature and high hairdo, has been creating quite a few problems for the United States and the rest of the world. Who is he?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "No matter how telegenic they are, no matter how many Star Fleet Command uniforms they have, if you don't show up with a baby or a parent or a DNA test... you shouldn't have a story."
That's a bioethicist, angrily complaining to ABC News about all the news coverage given to a strange group of people who had claimed they had produced the world's first one?
HINT: We just got a call of complaint from a spokesman for this group. He's on line one, line two, and line three.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Two hours on the job, and already he's spent $7.2 billion. That didn't take long."
That's Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) commenting -- jokingly we presume -- on the first-day spending spree of his new boss in the Senate. Who is it?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Dick Gephardt is one of those Democrats who reminds many Democrats why they are Democrats. Unfortunately, he has also been one of those Democrats who reminds many Republicans why they are Republicans"
That's Tom Oliphant in The Boston Globe talking about why he thinks Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) doesn't have much of a chance of becoming what?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I swallowed my whistle."
"Calling penalties isn't my strong suit, I'm more of a coin-toss guy."
"Not actually a referee, I'm just a guy who works at Foot Locker."
"It's a classic joke and all that, but some of us really do have severe vision problems and need corrective lenses."
Those are four of David Letterman's top ten excuses offered by whom last weekend?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
When Jupiter's in the star shine's line
We'll test out the world's greatest mind's find.
The light wave concavity
Has matched the orb's gravity.
Of course you were right, Mr. __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The judge made sure dog-friendly talk's stunned.
"Aim well when your car engine block's gunned.
Our streets will be cleaner.
No more canine wieners.
Be safe and run over a __________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The Romans were foul and fell.
They marched rank and vile, but well.
The museum's attraction
Is lifelike olfaction.
Be knocked out by the potent __________,
•Answer 3
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