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March 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.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
PETER: "First of all I would just like to welcome my evil friend to the U.N., one of the great American institutions for the propulsion of freedom throughout the world."
CARL: "Thank you, Great Satan. I hope that in today's debate we may find some common ground between the Iraqi people's commitment to peace and human progress and America's desire to destroy the Middle East."
That was London's The Guardian newspaper imagining the opening of a hypothetical debate between two prominent enemies. Which two men?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "...a veto would be very unfriendly..."
That's the United States ambassador speaking very diplomatically to the country where he resides. What country would the U.S. consider to be "very unfriendly" if they vetoed a resolution to attack Iraq?
HINT: The translation would have been something like "tres hostile."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: You can never go down
Can never go down
Can never go down the drain.
You can never go down
Can never go down
Can never go down the drain.
That is one of the many songs written by America's favorite neighbor. He left the neighborhood this week at the age of 74. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "Typically at times of inaugural festivities, most nations send flowers or bouquets or visiting dignitaries. [They] sent a short-range cruise missile."
That's White House spokesman Ari Fleischer talking about the inauguration gift, of sorts, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun received from whom?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "Sunday, 8:22 p.m. Norah Jones is about to perform. I know she'll perform 'Don't Know Why,' but part of me hopes she has a mental breakdown and starts singing (Van Halen's) 'Running with the Devil.'"
And
"9:14 pm: Before Coldplay takes the stage, a shot of the audience. AAACK! Aretha Franklin! I think she ate N' Sync. And knitted their carcasses for a scarf. Whoa daddy."
That's a web logger named Ryan McGee from his minute-by-minute account of the big award show last Sunday. What show?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "We've got to do something. I mean, we can't just put one of these out with the cover line: Tall Women Wearing Not Much More Than An Oven Mitt" and leave it at that."
That's Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly admitting that the magazine has run out of new ideas for the theme of its biggest-selling annual issue that came out this week. Which one?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Libertarians, rise to your fate!
Let's invade, vote, and then legislate.
The Dakotas, Great Plains?
Or New Hampshire? Or Maine?
Once we choose we will have our own __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
We cruise the Caribbean water.
Our guide's Ollie North, the grand plotter.
I'm an island marauder,
Dear muddah and faddah,
A tourist, invading __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
I first was a low bustline rustler.
But I've traded hot babes for tank musclers.
I supply Larry Flynt
With the news fit to print
I cover Iraq troops for __________.
•Answer 3
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