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June 21, 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: "God in heaven, how did this redneck spring from my waspy loins?"
That, according to late night comic Craig Kilborn, is how somebody's father might have reacted when he saw his son fall off a Segway scooter. Who?
HINT: The father was particularly upset because the son went into his line of work.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
Three quotes from CNN's Tucker Carlson:
CARL: "If they make $8 million on that book, I will eat my shoes."
Now from June 5
"(If it) does sell more than a million copies, I'll eat my shoes here on Crossfire.'"
And from June 11
"If she sells a million copies of this book, I'll eat my shoes and my tie. I will."
Well, Carlson may have to gnaw on his Hush Puppies now that whose book is a hit?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "It's not really real, but it's really real. It's like I'm dreaming in a dream."
That was 12-year-old Alexandra Wallmueller of Florida -- one of millions of children around the world driven into incoherent excitement by this weekend's release of what book?
HINT: The author was once a poor single mother. Now, like magic, she's richer than Queen Elizabeth.
• Answer 3
DJ Carl Round
Question 1 - (Sorry, there is no audio available for this item.)
What young American woman, based on an offer from the Viacom company, may end up being an all star, with documentaries on her from CBS-News, a TV movie from CBS entertainment, plus a related book deal, and her own special on MTV?
HINT: She says she doesn't remember any details of the event for which she's become famous.
• Answer 1
Question 2 - (Sorry, there is no audio available for this item.)
We were humming that love theme from The Godfather this week, when a man named Frank Keating made a group of people mad when he compared them to La Cosa Nostra. Who?
HINT: Well, like the Mob, they're all men, and they dress very distinctively.
• Answer 2
Question 3 - (Sorry, there is no audio available for this item.)
Jimmy Buffett sings a song about a cheeseburger in paradise, which is what 1,400 people hoped for when they paid thousands of dollars apiece to eat burgers, hot dogs and nachos with who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
When with Lovejoy my land I conjoin,
From my hometown the name I'll purloin.
See? Heads! Up to me.
Okay, two out of three.
We chose "Portland" by tossing a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Earth rumbles make everything plain-o.
They all say no pain-o no gain-o.
But please don't erupt
Till after we've supped.
I speak of our backyard __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
We just want a club, no loose zippers.
Just some dancing, some drinks, we're good tippers.
But we'll go, I suppose
To where they shed clothes.
Oh, Portland has too many __________.
•Answer 3
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