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April 5, 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: "Democracy. Whiskey. And sexy!!!"
That's a man telling The New York Times what he expects America to be bringing to his country, due to recent events. What country?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The only three other people that the U.S. military has asked to leave Iraq are Saddam Hussein and his two sons."
That was Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, making an accurate observation. Who is this fourth person asked by the U.S. Military to get the heck out of Iraq?
HINT: It ruined plans for his big special, The Secrets of Saddam's Safe Revealed.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "War -- huh! -- Good God Y'all
What is it good for?"
That's Carl's rendition of "War," the iconic 1970 hit single by a man who passed away this week at the age of 61. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "I'll give you 10 bags of Skittles for one... I need one now."
That was Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan Rose, somewhere in Iraq trying to trade his cache of candies for a precious, but increasingly rare, commodity at the front. What?
HINT: It's the one thing you're free to do in Iraq that you can't do in a New York City bar as of last week.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "I'm a noodle. I go haywire. I'm getting better at it, though. I'm getting faster at coming to the conclusion that something's not right."
That's someone telling Newsweek that after her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson and her two-month hitch with Nicolas Cage, she's learning how to end her failed relationships even more quickly. Who?
HINT: She's getting into her father's business, by releasing a record.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "The thing weighed 30 ounces. It was shaped like a brick. The thing was huge. I built up muscles just holding the thing."
That's a man named Martin Cooper in The San Francisco Chronicle who, 30 years ago this week, became the first person in history to use a what?
HINT: In only 30 years, they've proved to be the single most essential, and annoying, high-tech device we have.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
An anonymous Akron gray day
Led Bob S. and Bill to say, "Hey,
We'll sponsor some shleps
And take them through 12 steps."
So they dried up and foun-ded __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Such a squawking and screeching ne'er was heard
As when we welcome back the great fuzzbird.
Our lone high-brow culture
Is homeward-bound vultures
It is springtime and here comes the __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The Are We Not Men? record-sleeve shows
We've devolved from some apes. They believe so.
They get songs from a chip
And then crack that whip.
They're through being cool, they are __________.
•Answer 3
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