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March 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)
CARL: "Shut up, you monkey! Curse be upon your moustache, you traitor!"
Now that was a diplomat from a country much in the news. What country needs to try a little harder to play nice?
HINT: It sounds better in the original Arabic.
HINT: The monkey traitor in question was a representative of Kuwait.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "NYET. NEIN. NON!"
That was a multi-lingual headline from The Chicago Sun-Times. What three countries decided they weren't going to let the U.S. have what it wanted?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Bob, you ignorant slut."
That's how we imagine a Point/Counterpoint session may go this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Who are these new Point/Counterpoint stars?
HINT: They've already debated a few times, back in 1996.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "He has an engineering degree from an American university, speaks four languages and is said to have a winning way with women."
That's London's Telegraph newspaper describing a man who was captured in Pakistan this week. The man is smart, articulate, flirtatious and a leader of what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "We both wear high heels and are the same size."
That's former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's statement of limited solidarity with a world leader who's been causing a lot of diplomatic trouble recently. Keeping in mind that Albright is about five feet tall, her comment might explain what drives this guy to seek so much attention from the United States. Who is it?
Hint: We're pretty sure this guy now has nuclear weapons to help him feel bigger.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "(What I'm referring to is) also known as 'Shrove Tuesday,' 'Fasching' and 'Girls Gone Wild taping season.'"
That's one columnist's description of this week's big holiday. What?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Santa Anna and Crockett fought pure fights.
The Texan defenders deterred slights.
But there's little romance
In wood-eating ants
The Alamo's falling to __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Though the lap belt effectively neuters
Here's air perks for frat-boy commuters.
We serve in-flight slops
In hot pants and tight tops.
On this tacky airline run by __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Papa preached, young Ciccone felt trauma.
Now she writes and kids yell, "I don't wan-na!"
For the author of Sex
Turns to juvenile texts.
Yes, more picture books penned by __________.
•Answer 3
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