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April 19, 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: "You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order... order out of chaos. But we will."
Who accidentally promised to "restore chaos" in Iraq this week?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "(They) should take note. I hear there are lots of statues (there) too."
That's an unnamed Bush administration official warning that what country could be next after Iraq?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "He should have quit when he quit."
That's San Jose Mercury News sports columnist Mark Purdy on the basketball player who retired from the game for the third, and he swears, final time this week. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: ["They're] Republican Party poopers!"
That was the Wall Street Journal editorial page, fulminating against two Republican senators -- George Voinovich and Olympia Snowe -- who dared to take a stand against the president's what?
HINT: They voted to reduce it from humongous to merely enormous?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: When the waiter swings by with his wicker basket of bread, he might as well be a hustler pushing crack. Sourdough? Ciabatta? Focaccia? Good Lord, man, no!
That's The Washington Post on how a man changed the way many people look at carbohydrates. That diet guru died this week at age 74. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "Never in my life did I think we'd be going backwards... This must have been what the Dark Ages were like."
That was Will Forrest, a wealthy New Yorker in The New York Times bemoaning the loss of a fabulous futuristic convenience, that is going to be phased out. What?
HINT: Using it, you could arrive in New York before you left Paris.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The White Sox official's sweat ran.
"I don't want the spectators banned
But the ump at first base
Had to punch this guy's face
To save himself from a drunk __________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
New nightmares the deep sea has hid,
Like a half-ton cephalopod kid.
With eight arms, two tentacles
Rotating Dentacles
The humongo colossal-sized __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Male fireflies don't like to fight.
But we let the sparks fly in the night.
And firefly-ettes
Will have no regrets
When they pick guys with the long __________.
•Answer 3
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