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March 29, 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: "We're in school and so insulated. We don't even hear that much. Like, our lives go on. We're still looking to party."
That was a young lady named Nikki Saviano, a freshman at the University of Florida, explaining that not even a war can stop what tradition from going forward?
HINT: This year, the wet T-shirt contest in Fort Lauderdale is dedicated to the boys overseas.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It reminded me of being with my parents on vacation and how you sort of look at all the other kids on the beach, and sometimes wish you were running wild like them, but it was kind of secure and nice to be with your parents, too."
That's NPR's John Burnett talking about what it's like for him and hundreds of other journalists, to be what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "(He's) an egghead that talks in circles. I am not going to see this skunk."
That's one-time FBI strongman J. Edgar Hoover's opinion of a man who angered many during his career as senator and scholar. This controversial figure died this week. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "[Bleep] Saddam! We're taking him out!"
Now there are probably thousands of people saying that, or something like it, every minute these days, but this person said it one year ago, in March of 2002. Who was it?
HINT: He said it to Condoleezza Rice.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "That's not my question. I'd like to hear your straight answer."
That's Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a line that busted up the gallery in court this week. Breyer was asking a Texas prosecutor to defend a state law that bans the private behavior of what kind of people?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "I am a 34-year-old wife and mother of two who still believes in right and wrong. Yes, even my husband knows of the crush I have on [him], and finally I know I am not alone."
That comment was posted on a new fan site for a member of the Bush administration... a place where people can get together and praise the good looks and brainy demeanor of whom?
HINT: Many of them mention the manly way he handles Helen Thomas.
HINT: He's the "First Mouthpiece."
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
"Oh, bless my soul! Run, horsey, run!
Sweet Mary, and Joseph, we've won!
Our cash, Sister, grab it,
Stuff it in my habit.
Good thing the bet's placed by a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
From backspace to shift, what have we stored?
It's where food's lost and yesterday's tea poured.
Ick. See what the agar
Has found in your space bar?
Just look what lurks inside your __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
We've made ice cream which you'll yen and carry.
For "Iraqi Road" few men can tarry.
Its superlative flavor
conservatives savor
this alternative to __________.
•Answer 3
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