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June 7, 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: "I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that."
That -- from The Washington Post -- was someone getting in the face of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Who "took immense crap" for vouching for Mr. Sharon?
HINT: It paid off this week, when Sharon agreed -- sort of -- to a peace process.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
COREY: "Buddy the dog came along to keep Bill company. He was the only member of our family who was still willing to."
That's a telling line from whose new book?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
COREY: "It was as if someone had caught Superman using brass knuckles, or suspected Robin Hood of stealing from the poor, or accused King Arthur of rigging it so that the sword would slide easily out of the stone."
That's Mike Downey of The Chicago Tribune on this week's sports scandal in the Windy City -- the discovery that who corked his bat?
• Answer 3
Who's Corey Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
COREY: "I'm not reading this... This is bull-BLEEP."
That, according to U.S. News and World Report, was how Secretary of State Colin Powell reacted last fall, when he looked over some classified intelligence pertaining to what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
COREY: "I asked him if he ate the salamanders raw. He said he did for the first four months or so. He swallowed them whole. He said it was like sushi."
That's a North Carolina law enforcement official telling about his conversations with a certain prisoner. What accused felon expanded the definition of "sushi" during his years on the lam?
HINT: He was mad that the other white supremacists wouldn't let him play in their reindeer games.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
COREY: "It's a bad thing."
That's how a number of United States newspapers headlined a high-profile indictment this week. Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The red rooster called Big Boss has crowed,
"Out there I hear wine sauces flowed.
It's no joke. Look both ways
Or get grilled, fried, or braised.
My chickens may not _____ _____ _____."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I hug walls like a fresco by Greco.
It's like Marvel meets Umberto Eco.
I stick with a piece of
Some lizard's adhesive.
It's goopy gum gleaned from a __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Salman Rushdie's holed up where no friends go.
"Super Mario scores I distend, though.
And then before long
I shall beat Donkey Kong,
Yes, my Fatwa is spent with __________."
•Answer 3
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