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March 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: "Spain ate my homework."
That was pundit Josh Marshall suggesting an excuse the Bush administration might use to explain its inability to get something it said it would get "no matter what." What was it?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It is too bad that someone would take a beautiful word like 'freedom' and put it on something as trivial as a potato."
That's a spokesperson for the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. She was reacting to the latest action taken by the House of Representatives to show its unhappiness with French opposition in the United Nations. What did the House do?
In response, the French Embassy started calling the bushes in front of its building "big babies."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Broadway (needs this) right now like it needs a revival of Cats."
That's The Chicago Tribune's opinion of a production of sorts that hit Broadway last week. What was it?
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1 - (Listen)
London's Sunday Mirror newspaper reported on a surprising incident on the Iraq/Kuwait border. A group of British paratroopers were test-firing their weapons. Hearing the shots, Iraqi soldiers made their way through the barbed wire and trenches guarding the border, and did what?
HINT: Generally, you're supposed to do this AFTER the war starts...
• Answer 1
Question 2 - (Listen)
Early this week the Bush administration announced that Iraq had a terrifying weapon: a remote-controlled plane that could attack troops hundreds of miles away, or even attack America itself. But when reporters were shown the plane by Iraqi authorities, they discovered that it was most likely a defensive weapon because the plane was held together... by what?
HINT: This explains why we couldn't find any when Tom Ridge told us last week to get it.
• Answer 2
Question 3 - (Listen)
Police in Thailand are complaining that their official uniforms are a hindrance to keeping the peace. Why?
HINT: It's giving police whistles a whole new meaning.
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
This switch will re-rail my thought's train.
It guides like a bright mental cane.
With man-made synapses
I'll have no more lapses.
A prosthesis is part of my __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Before marriage, there's no hands in no pants,
No huggin', no kissin', and no dance.
Though couples are dreamy
Their windows aren't steamy
In clean dimestore novels of __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Git yer head out the dirt or yer lost, Mitch!
Those long-leg birds made a low-cost switch.
A large poultry farmer
Must be quite a charmer.
Watch out for the amorous __________.
•Answer 3
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