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June 14, 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: "Everybody thought, 'Oh, just a prairie dog not feeling well.'"
That's Wisconsin pet shop owner Eileen Whitmarsh, who thought nothing of a sick prairie dog. That prairie dog turned out to have what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
COREY: "You're as pretty as your mama. She's real pretty and you're pretty too. Yes, you are. You're as pretty as your mama."
Now, that's an excerpt from a new memoir that came out this week. Who had to sit and watch, with growing horror, as Senator Strom Thurmond macked on her daughter?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
COREY: 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina."
That was the title of a memoir that summed up the life of a newsman who died this week at the age of 82. Who was it?
• Answer 3
Who's Corey Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
COREY: "They don't call it the death planet for nothing."
That's NASA administrator Ed Weiler describing a planet that's caused a lot of grief for his agency, as the agency tries yet again to get where?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
COREY: "In the three decades since Watergate, this is the first potential scandal I have seen that could make Watergate pale by comparison."
That was former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, who knows a little bit about presidential scandals. What, in his view, could make Watergate "pale by comparison?"
It's sort of a question of what did Saddam have, and when did he have it?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
COREY: "This is a big robust individual... We're not talking about a little man. If you had a rugby team, you'd want this guy."
That's a man named Tim White describing to The Washington Post an Ethiopian man, who in addition to his natural rugby abilities is also believed to be what?
HINT: He makes Strom Thurmond look like a spring chicken.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I like my primates tall and careless,
That's why it's a boon when they wear less.
I avoid hirsute thugs,
They're just teeming with bugs.
But I'll mate with this ape 'cause he's __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Out where we were first to send dogs
We've sent polyphone pollywogs.
Preoscular princes
Are like mother's blintzes.
Homesickness is gone, thanks to __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Girlfriend, I don't like to repeat
How some single guys practice deceit.
In his wallet he fidgets,
Says, "here's my phone digits"
Which he jots on a fake bank __________.
•Answer 3
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