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February 15, 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)
CARL: "Have you ever watched the average person duct-tape anything? It's not a pretty sight. The average person can barely duct-tape the pedal on a kid's Big Wheels, never mind expertly seal off windows and doors."
That's Kevin Cowherd of The Baltimore Sun saying that Americans need more than duct tape to deal with what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Now. Almost. Totally. Obsolete."
According to CNN, some are suggesting that as the new name for an alliance that faced one of its most serious crises this week. What alliance?
HINT: Its real name has the same initials.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I think every astronomer will remember where they were when they heard these results."
That's John Bahcall, an astrophysicist from Princeton University, oohing and ahhing to The Washington Post about some remarkable new pictures that were released this week. These pictures, taken by a satellite, show us all kinds of amazing things about the nature of what?
HINT: Among other things, we now know for certain how old it is: 13.7 billion years.
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "I don't see this as a sort of ringing endorsement of Saddam... He only mentioned Saddam once, and it's hardly a glowing reference. He actually said, if Saddam disappears, it's not the end of the world."
That was CNN terrorism expert Peter Bergen throwing a wet blanket on who's taped endorsement of Saddam Hussein?
HINT: The tape was issued from a bunker in Tora Bora.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "They told me they were going to take out my 'aloof gland' tomorrow, so I'm feeling better."
That's a Democratic presidential candidate joking that when doctors operated on his prostate cancer this week, they'd also remove his inability to connect with regular people. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "I was right. It was a third-rate burglary. Who knew it was going to be anything more than that?"
That's a man named Ron Ziegler, who died this week, defending his most famous statement. What did Mr Ziegler call a "third-rate burglary."
HINT: Mr Ziegler was Richard Nixon's press secretary.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
For your formal wear, here's what you pack.
It sucks up light, spits nothing back.
And you never need shelve it,
It's deeper than velvet.
Nickel phosphorus is this season's __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Saucy barbecue makes my mouth froth.
Paper napkins can't sop up that broth.
Don't want fancy serviettes
Or those damn moist towelettes
I demand you use napkins of __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Bronx cheetahs get cleaned, salved and shined.
"That new zoo-keeper called Alvin's fine.
Food concession at ten
With obsession for men.
Oh, we cheetahs just love _____ _____."
•Answer 3
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