|
April 12, 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: "I was just trying my best to get the chain around his neck and put the flag on his head."
That was 23-year-old Edward Chin, discussing his motivation behind what became the image of the week. Who did Mr. Chin adorn with a U.S. Flag?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. Never!"
That was somebody who became known in the last two weeks for his very optimistic views on the Iraqi war effort. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "It now becomes an historical fork. Here you get perhaps the last opportunity to get a personal item out of Saddam's dining room."
That was someone discussing the fork that "slipped in my pocket on my last visit in Baghdad." You can now have that fork, among thousands of other Saddam items, if you look where?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "[It's] been going on for centuries and centuries that men like to get together with men every now and then, and women like to get together with women every now and then. And that's just a simple fact of life in America."
That's a man named Hootie Johnson defending his decision to keep the sexes from mingling as what big sporting event starts this weekend?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "There's a time and a place for everything, and this has been too much."
That was John Gontaryki, an accountant in Manhattan, discussing an unwelcomed occurrence this week. What?
HINT: It's April for pity's sake.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "I felt devastated... I felt violated. I did not want my husband shoving a spoon down my throat to be photographed... It is offensive."
That was the testimony of a Hollywood diva who won a month-long court battle against a British tabloid this week for taking unauthorized snapshots of her wedding. Who didn't want her gluttonous cake eating immortalized?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I crunch numbers while my guest relaxes.
Though from audits he craves prophylaxis.
Our deductions are reckless
At this bed and breakfast.
'cause the innkeeper's doing the __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Global temps come from false, diddled gauges.
Look at history's worn, riddled pages.
Panic finds some reprieval
In times medieval
Don't forget the hot, dark __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Stallone is just getting too cocky.
Getting beat up on Broadway? How schlocky.
Carried off on a gurney
To soft strains by Journey.
The musical version of __________.
•Answer 3
|
