|
June 28, 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: "We have fudged this dangerous issue. You should do the same."
That was pundit Michael Kinsley offering a handy paraphrase of the landmark decision this week handed down by the Supreme Court on what dangerous issue?
HINT: It concerned the University of Michigan.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Why oh why does Justice Scalia care so very much about what happens in the privacy of America's pants?"
That was Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, wondering about why Justice Scalia would not, could not agree, when the court struck down a Texas law banning what?
HINT: Supporters said the majority decision was "fabulous."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: 8:30 a.m.: Checks 'Help Wanted' ads in Ruthless Dictator magazine.
10:00 a.m.: Tries to dig up hidden weapons of mass destruction, but can't find them either.
12:30 p.m.: To stay sharp, tortures himself.
Those according to CBS's The Late Show, is a selection from whose daily diary?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 - (Listen)
CARL: "Let's go eat some genetically modified food for lunch."
That's what someone said on Wednesday after meeting with a group of European leaders. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 - (Listen)
CARL: "[I had] authentic sources. Many authentic sources."
That was a man who reappeared this week, after vanishing during the fall of Baghdad. Who says he had "authentic sources" for his somewhat implausible claims?
HINT: His credible sources told him, "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad" while U.S. tanks were rolling by his window.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 - (Listen)
CARL: "I would rather security gets a big kick up the arse as a result of my actions than the whole thing goes up in smoke. I'm amazed I got in. But William is a lovely boy."
That's a man named Aaron Barschak in London's Evening Standard. He managed to crash Prince William's 21st birthday bash while dressed as whom?
HINT: He was wearing a long false beard.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The slime mold lives glibly among us.
And frankly, my dear, it's humongous.
No shower spray will do
To kill off this mildew.
For we've got the world's biggest __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
A gosh-darned old grudge I am nursing.
But clean speech for court I'm rehearsing.
Don't say bleep, say dagnabbit.
What pernicious bad habit.
I've just been arrested for __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
If I choose a wine with a heady nose
I might win the canned pasta's steady foes.
But if they scorn that dish again
I'll move to Michigan.
The home of the friends of __________.
•Answer 3
|
