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May 17, 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 (Sorry, there is no audio available for this quote.)
CARL: "We believe that if you want to drive (them) crazy, you should let them deal with Spring Break."
That's House Democrat James McGovern saying that libidinous college students may be able to accomplish what 43 years of trade sanctions could not. McGovern was giving a reason to end travel restrictions to where?
• Answer 1
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CARL: "I am the Mimi."
That was a 60-year-old Manhattanite named Marion Fahnestock, saying that she was the 19-year-old intern Mimi, who had an affair with whom?
HINT: It's really not surprising -- President Clinton always tried to be like him in every other way.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I put on that coat and it's Superman time. I become the lone wolf. I'm ready to rock your world."
That's actor Keanu Reeves saying he finds the secret to playing a character in the character's big, black, duster-style overcoat. Reeves is wearing the coat on more than 3,000 movie screens this weekend in what movie?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
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CARL: "'I'm coughing up blood' -- but it's just practice."
That's the headline in Wednesday's Chicago Sun Times, describing an alarming but not so alarming event this week, in Chicago and Seattle. What event?
• Answer 4
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CARL: "The switch probably didn't faze Tonight (Show) viewers, who have proved themselves to be spectacularly undemanding. Today could have sent over (chimpanzee star) J. Fred Muggs and Tonight fans might not have noticed.
That's USA Today's Robert Bianco on NBC's big sweeps month stunt, in which two of its stars switched jobs for a day. Who?
• Answer 5
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CARL: "It is (easy). People are now racing to be the fattest, the thinnest, the youngest, the oldest up there."
That's an Austrian named Peter Habeler talking about a feat that was first achieved by two men 50 years ago, but has since become rather old hat. What?
HINT: We do it, because it is there.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
In the ocean, there's this tiny glee-source.
And it's S.H.P. is but a wee force.
It's not just a foal
It's grown and it's whole
We've found the world's tiniest _____ _____.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
With updates this language won't flatten.
But Golfus putt-puttus? Why's that in?
From Caesar we vary
In our seminary
With our new dictionary of __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Don't touch problems like drug-use or juvie.
Films like Toy Story 2 are most groovy.
It's got action, effects,
And the plot's not complex.
That's the best formula for a __________.
•Answer 3
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