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February 1, 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.
Quiz audio from the Feb. 1, 2003 show is not available this time.
Who's Corey This Time?
Quote 1
COREY: "We can be sure that some pundits will acclaim the speech as bold and brilliant; they would do that if he read from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
That was Paul Krugman of The New York Times, bitterly grousing about the political kabuki that always surrounds what big speech this week?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
COREY: "No. No. No. No. No. That's our idea. So is that. Wow, a three syllable word. No. Yes -- America is good. Oh, I am so going to obstruct that. No. No. And God Bless America."
That was Senator Tom Daschle offering his version of an important speech that ended up being really delivered by Washington Governor Gary Locke. What speech?
HINT: Senator Daschle's was much funnier than the real one.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
COREY:
"Here's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, from January 23: Time is running out.
And here's Ari Fleisher on January 24: Time is running out.
Here's White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, on January 26: Time is running out.
And, for an alternative view, let's turn to Secretary of State Colin Powell from January 27: Time is running out.
All of these very important people seem to believe that time is indeed running out... for whom?
HINT: His time is running out.
• Answer 3
Who's Corey Round II
Question 4
COREY: "Ted's my name, bison is my game!"
That's a man celebrating the opening of an all-buffalo meat restaurant. He's going to have a lot of free time to serve up bison burgers. Which Ted is this?
HINT: He just resigned from his current job, Vice Chairman of AOL-Time Warner.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "There will be no post-Super Bowl edition of Nightline tonight so that ABC can bring you the following piece of garbage."
That's Nightline host Ted Koppel announcing the arrival of the latest personality to self-destruct on late night television. Who?
• Answer 5
Question 6
COREY: You know, in China they say, 'The thinner the chopsticks, the higher the social status.' Of course, I got the thinnest I could find."
[pause]
"That's why people hate me."
That was someone breaking her long silence, with an interview in The New Yorker, in which she discussed her chopsticks, her legal troubles and why everybody hates her. Who knows that we hate her because her chopsticks are so thin?
HINT: We also hate her because her home is so perfect, her dinners are so exquisite and her dish-washing liquid sits by the sink in a little glass cruet. Really.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1:
From Thai traffic's incessant barrage
Find rest at our Swedish garage.
We'll give you a back rub.
To brave gridlock's black hub.
Yes, motorists need a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2:
At our trough you won't find many prigs,
With our snouts in the mud we all digs.
But we squeal in great joys
As the E.U. deploys
Their ruling for toys for us __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3:
They're show tunes, guys, no bethel sermon.
So dance, fueled by some methyl, squirmin'.
Cause we've been remixin'
This old Broadway vixen.
It's disco traxx by _____ _____.
•Answer 3
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