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January 25, 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)
CARL: "I want you to know that even when I am not smiling, I am in fact smiling."
Who's smiling despite the growing military forces arrayed against him?
HINT: Not even Donald Rumsfeld's threats can bring out his frown...
HINT: Mass troops and aircraft carriers on his borders... he just smiles more!
• Answer 1
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CARL: "I have seen him go from a medallion-carrying, jumpsuit-wearing political activist into a national and international spokesperson."
That's a man named Roberto Ramirez telling The Chicago Tribune about someone who's given up his jumpsuit past in search of the White House. Who this week announced his intentions to be the next president of the United States of America?
HINT: He can change his clothes, but he can't change Tawana Brawley.
HINT: This guy's hair is in tribute to James Brown.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "People don't go around naked in the winter, stupid!"
That's Tony Chamberlain in The Boston Globe this week responding to meteorologists. Weathermen spent the week talking about a number that only matters if you're walking around naked. What's this weather number?
HINT: It's not enough to tell us the temperature... they have to tell us this, too.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
Often, advances in one area end up being useful in a completely different field. For example, consumer electronics company Samsung recently patented a device which uses techology from cruise missles to help guide a certain household item. What?
HINT: What cruise missiles are to enemy installations, this will be to dust bunnies.
HINT: And if it can't get the last sesame seeds out of the shag, it will detonate the warhead.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
A company in Florida has created a machine that will do what difficult and time-consuming task for you?
HINT: It does everything for you, including feel the burn.
HINT: As an option, you can get another machine that sits next to it and yells, "Come on! One more! Let's see it! It's all you! Come on!"
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
Everybody knows from the Mission Impossible movies about Retinal Scanning -- machines that can identify a person by the unique structure of the eye. One of these devices is now installed in Britain, to make sure that what can be operated with total security?
HINT: The device will do nothing, sadly, to let the geeky kids sit at the same table with the cool kids.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
When I led double lives trading lies,
I'd no time to let sourdough rise.
So I learned the expedient
secret ingredient
With recipes garnered by __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Since Ulysses' trip home was a swell event,
We've dug up a tusk that seems relevant.
One eye-hole? That's bunk.
It's a hole for a trunk.
See, the cyclops was really an __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
"Steppin' in it's my job's super blooper!"
(Corny puns really help dupe her stupor.)
"Doody Calls," "Howdy doo,"
"Our first job's number two."
It's a meeting of the _____ _____.
•Answer 3
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