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April 25, 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: "They are now holding the four of clubs, the four of hearts, the five of spades, the five of clubs, the seven of diamonds, the eight of diamonds and the nine of clubs. They need [the] Oil Minister... to fill the inside straight."
That's The Chicago Sun Times, talking about a rather dangerous game played with a deck of cards that depicts whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Gay rights groups are calling for [his] resignation as he compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, adultery and incest. Mormons are insulted because he included polygamy, Congress was insulted because he included adultery and Arkansas was insulted because he included incest."
That was late-night comedian Jay Leno summing up the interesting position on personal privacy offered up this week by whom?
HINT: He's a Senator from Pennsylvania.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I can't tell anything about the show. I'm a good secret keeper now."
That was someone being coy, while doing publicity for her new TV reality show. What newly minted TV host has learned to keep a secret?
HINT: What she means is, she didn't call up Linda Tripp and blab all about it.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "He didn't think it was a big deal. He said all the embedded reporters were doing it."
That's a U.S. Customs official describing how Boston Herald reporter Jules Crittenden defended himself when he was caught doing what?
HINT: Just because everybody in Baghdad is doing it, doesn't mean it's right.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "(They) came in and cut the legs of the chairs down so that they would be taller than their (American) counterparts."
That's a former American diplomat telling U.S. negotiators what happened the last time we tried negotiating with a certain country. We sat down at the table with them again this week. What country?
HINT: They didn't try the chair leg trick. Now they feel bigger because they have the bomb.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous."
That comes from a woman whose entire life has been devoted to looking good, getting rich and just being famous. Who is now biting the hand that fed her?
HINT: She's fast becoming the Immaterial Girl.
HINT: She's in danger of watching her career get Swept Away.
HINT: Critics say her new album should be used in the Body of Evidence against her.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Oh, Hewlett, this sure is bizarre.
You'll never guess what caused this scar.
Now don't say, oh fiddle.
I'm no Chicken Little.
I swear I was hit by a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
For pod plants this mite's the sole evil.
But we've tried to redress our droll grieval.
You destroy cotton crops
Yet you, bug, are the tops
And this statue shall laud the _____ _____.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Our Confederate troops just might run prouder
When cannon blasts make the war's fun louder.
And secessionist tinkle
Will make medals chinkle.
We'll supply uric acid for __________.
•Answer 3
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