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May 31, 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 Corey This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
COREY: "We are not in a mood to give an apology or ask for an apology. We just want to have a good summit and share a bottle of Evian."
That's a French diplomat on how his country will deal with what person, arriving soon for a big summit meeting?
HINT: To make him more comfortable, they're putting up signs at the airport saying, "Welcome to Freedom-land."
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
COREY: "I think since people are living much longer... the 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime."
Who wants the constitution changed to allow for a presidential encore?
HINT: Well, let's see... who among us was elected to two terms, and might want to run again? And it's not Reagan.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
COREY: "I'm going to buy a lot of video games. Like, a lot."
That's Dallas eighth grader Sai Gunturi telling The New York Times how he's going to spend the $12,000 he won this week, where?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
COREY: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard!"
That's a line from a movie now being shot in Toronto. Who's that heroic action hero?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
COREY: "Spitting on the ground is dangerous to your health, and spit contains infectious diseases. But with one small bag in your hands, your health will always be invincible."
That is written on tiny bags being handed out in Beijing, to try to coax people out of their longtime habit of spitting on the street. An anti-spit campaign that's been driven by fear of what?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
COREY: There's a lady who's sure... all that glitters is gold... and she's buying a stairway to heaven..."
That's Corey singing the big hit by a band which is bringing back the 70s with eight hours of previously unreleased concert recordings. What band?
HINT: Corey Flintoff IS the Hammer of the Gods!
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
(Ladies and gentlemen, the President)
Chef, where's the bird? You said you'd baste 'er!
Aw, man! Why'd you let that dude waste 'er?
Why bring those new boys in
Who check food for poison?
I don't think I need a _____ _____.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Microsoft's prudes are off-kilter.
They parse and resplice like a quilter.
Assembly's obscene?
Calm down with that screen.
They've bleeped up that Internet __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Our fruit has geneticists fumin'
For ours is the first with albumin.
Now both rind and pith
Look just like Granny Smith
'Cause our tree has the genes of a __________.
•Answer 3
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