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February 8, 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: "We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive."
That was writer Neal Pollack, reacting to evidence presented at the United Nations this week by whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The politics of this are easy to grasp; people like free lunches."
That was Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal, talking about what big menu of free lunches that came out this week?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The name Serbia and Montenegro is criticized for being unimaginative, and being difficult to chant at sporting (events)."
That's the BBC on one problem with the new name of an old country. In what former country will they now be chanting Serbia Montenegro.
HINT: Among other things, it also means that the world's worst car will henceforth be known as a Serb-Mont.
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1 - (Sorry, these is no audio available for this question. )
We took a close look at the budget and we found that one of the proposed increases in spending is dedicated to what?
HINT: The money is for a space probe.
• Answer 1
Question 2 - (Sorry, these is no audio available for this question. )
General Tommy Franks, of the U.S. Central Command, is the guy who may lead a war against Iraq, if it comes. But this week, The Washington Post revealed that General Franks is under investigation for a possible improper relationship with whom?
HINT: Part of the accusation is that he assigned a soldier to help her shop.
• Answer 2
Question 3 - (Sorry, these is no audio available for this question. )
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, had a security breach this week. Someone entered the modern art galleries and did what?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Pols claim collars or blood that is bluish
But from Kerry to Cohn? That seems new-ish.
He has switched from "begorrah"
To "Nu, I'm a schnorrer"
Yes, everyone claims to be __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Our waddle makes rows one through ten grin.
Even flightless fowl now and again win.
While the air crew's in speedos
We wear our tuxedos.
We'll pre-board, we're tame in-flight __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
About razors on faces we're raving.
It's the clue to how men are behaving.
Nices wives, cleaner jokes
And less chances of strokes.
Yes, all good things come back to __________.
•Answer 3
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