|
May 24, 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: "I want to do something more relaxing -- like dismantle live nuclear weapons."
That was someone explaining this week why he's leaving his job. Who'd rather work with nuclear weapons than the White House press corps?
HINT: The job was White House Spokesman.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I want to stress from the beginning: this is one cow."
That was Canadian Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief, assuring the world that it was only one little cow that had what little problem?
HINT: They realized it was a problem when the cow started chuckling darkly to itself.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I feel good!"
That was somebody reacting to the pardon granted him by the South Carolina Department of Probation -- who was it?
HINT: Who else?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "It was a real snot-flinger of a meltdown."
That was a congressional aide describing a battle between House and Senate Republicans over 350 billion itty bitty dollars worth of what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "Do not slap her butt after a great shot.
Do not tell her which club Vijay (Singh) would have used.
Do not give her your drink order."
Those are three of ESPN's suggested "dont's" for golfers who found themselves playing against whom?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "No one here believes for one second the votes landed just 1,300 apart. It's a disgrace... in fact, I think we are looking at a modern day version of the $64,000 question!"
That, from Matt Drudge's Web site, is a TV executive saying that this week's big prime-time contest may have been fixed. What TV show may be facing its first scandal?
HINT: Say It Ain't So, Ruben!
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Sorry, there is no audio available for this question. )
Scopes knew Darwin's stuff's not for wimps.
But do I pick fleas as I primp?
I'll buy boy-Mars, girl-Venus.
But hands off my genus!
Keep man's phylum free of the __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Sorry, there is no audio available for this question. )
"Drink less." That's a preaching our choir shunned.
"Less ads" has the media buyers stunned.
Now pubs will be troublin'
In Joyce's great Dublin.
Our leader is sobering up __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Sorry, there is no audio available for this question.)
Microsoft's prudes are off-kilter.
They parse and re-splice like a quilter.
Assembly's offensive?
Morehead's apprehensive.
They've bleeped up that Internet __________.
•Answer 3
|
