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May 10, 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: "We're going to have as many people in there as we need for as long as we need them. We will also have as few people as possible, but as many as there are necessary, and we'll stay as short a time as possible, but as long as is necessary."
Who was that, talking about our policy towards a postwar Iraq?
HINT: He's sort of the Dan Rather of the Pentagon... at least they have the same initials.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "All together now: Imagine if Clinton had done that!"
That's Howard Kurtz on the growing flap over President Bush's decision to spend more than a million dollars in taxpayer money last week to do what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship."
That, maybe sadly, was the most memorable work of the composer George Wyle, who died this week at the age of 87. What was it?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "I'd like to come over there and strangle you, George."
That was Senator Joseph Lieberman, threatening George Stephanopoulos, at what vaguely historical event last weekend?
HINT: The 2004 elections have begun!
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "Do you deny to us, under oath, that you were in this car pool...?"
Thanks to transcripts released this week, that was one of the sillier questions asked 50 years ago in secret hearings conducted by whom?
HINT: There was a Bolshevik in the Buick, it seems.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "There was nothing out there but grass and us."
That's an American named Kenneth Bowersox who, with two Russians, ended up in the lonely plains of Kazakhstan this week when they got a little lost. What were they riding in?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
As New Hampshire's cold granite folds ran,
The rock's visage slipped by a bold span.
Now no great person's countenance
Resembles that mountainance.
The face has dropped from the _____ _____.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
How illiterates sign all their checks
Marks an age-group that thinks it's complex.
And the faint hint of sex
Makes them crane their stiff necks.
"We'll buy anything marked with an __________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
How'd my lunch-break go? Oh, not so well.
The drive-through was all shot to hell.
I pulled up to order,
But they shut down that border.
It's adios to my dear _____ _____.
•Answer 3
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