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May 3, 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: "What's next? Will he rappel from the rafters to give his next S.O.T.U.? Or ride the hood of a moving car -- à la T.J. Hooker -- as he signs the transportation bill? These are exciting times."
That's the political newsletter, The Hotline, wondering how President Bush will follow up his arrival Thursday... on what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Yes, Happy Birthday... despite the circumstances."
That's a single forlorn bit of graffiti in Tikrit, Iraq this week, wishing whom a happy 66th birthday?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "On Top of Everything Except My Husband"
That's The Tonight Show's alternate title for a book that, it was announced this week, will be released in June. Whose book?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "We were not lying. But it was just a matter of emphasis."
That's a Bush administration official explaining to ABC News why haven't been hearing about the search for what in Iraq?
HINT: It's okay, because we won.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "I asked my children, 'Where do you want to go for vacation this summer?' Guess what they said? 'We want to go to Iowa'"
That's Florida Senator Bob Graham stretching credulity a bit. What is Senator Graham doing that might necessitate a vacation in Des Moines before next year?
HINT: Stop number two on the vacation: New Hampshire.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "They do not threaten to go on strike, demand renegotiations, bump the referee, fight with teammates or draw flagrant fouls. They do not get picked up on DUI charges. They are never accused of hitting their girlfriends."
That's Mike Lo Presti in USA Today expressing his admiration for the stars of this weekend's big sporting event. The selfless, never-to-be-heard-complaining competitors in what?
HINT: They do crap on your boot.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
We're glum. We crave globs in our spleen.
Clams click best when creeks clot with green.
Filtered lakes are a crime
For we crave gloopy grime.
We clams claim the coast is too __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
"In the back, you... you Old Spice exploder."
Yes, my nose is a subtle decoder.
So at the town meeting
We sniff as a greeting
And then split up according to __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The old wood mouse oft grandly repines,
"Stonehenge? And those crop circles? Mine.
They're for rodent direction,
Not for spaceship detection.
I find my way making road __________.
•Answer 3
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