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March 22, 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: "Though it looks as if the next few months should be shaping up to be a great time for you business wise, dear Taurus, today it might appear hopeless. ... Don't let the frustration interfere with your outlook for the future. You are due for advancement in some way!"
That was Tuesday's Yahoo.com horoscope for a man much in the news. Who should keep his chin up, even though things appear hopeless?
HINT: If he does advance anywhere, he'd be advised to do it with his hands up.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "What is the Dixie Chicks and why are they apologizing?"
That was Rep. Leon Howard of the South Carolina legislature, plaintively asking a question. We'll tell you that the Dixie Chicks are a popular country music act, but what were they apologizing for?
HINT: Tom Daschle was criticized for doing the same thing.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "In all likelihood, a female actor will wear a dress that fails to flatter... Commentators will wonder, 'what was she thinking?' Her breasts will be likened to fried eggs. And the whole business will pass over."
That was Zoe Williams, of the British newspaper The Guardian, trying to put a major world event in perspective. What event?
HINT: It's on Sunday Night.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Nicaragua, Slovakia and Uzbekistan."
Who are those countries?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "People who vote against this today are voting against me, and I will not forget it."
That's Republican Senator Ted Stevens announcing a personal vendetta against any senator who dared vote against an energy proposal he strongly supported. It was the proposal to do what?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "Since Fox is the network that has had the greatest success with this genre, I was very excited when they approached me to host the show. It sounds like good fun."
That was a young woman who confirmed this week that she will indeed be hosting a new reality show on Fox called Mr. Personality. Who is it?
HINT: She was the star of the biggest reality TV drama of 1998, called Mr President.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
You've been gorged on our Millionaire trough.
Hope you choke, because all bets are off.
On the tape that I played,
You heard "B" and then "A."
You have cheated by means of a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Grilled proteins is all that y'all eat.
Now the sky with ghost cows is replete.
Hey, Tex, git yo T-Bone
On out of the ozone
It seems that y'all make us breathe __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
When I'm nervous and starting to fret
I need a man, glistening and wet.
My tenseness demands
A guy with fat glands.
I calm right down, smelling male __________.
•Answer 3
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