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July 12, 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 Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
JEAN: "One thing is for certain... he's not trying to buy anything right now."
That was President Bush, brushing aside the fact that he may have lied about whose efforts to buy himself a nuclear bomb?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
JEAN: "Clearly, given the length of his stay, (he) is unlikely to be caught eating matooke."
That's an Op Ed in a newspaper, noting that George Bush would not have time to eat the local fare where?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
JEAN: There you were, I fell on the floor
The way you move, girl, only made me want you more
I did not know you had me hypnotized
There's a movement of your body dancin' in my eyes
It's ecstasy when you're layin' down next to me
Oh, no, no, ecstasy, yeah, when you're layin' down next to me
We couldn't resist having Jean reprise her famous impression of a great singer, who died this week. Who spent his professional life putting us all in the mood?
HINT: He just arrived there and he's already spinning in his grave.
• Answer 3
Who's Jean This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
JEAN: "Nelson Mandela was never in politics. He was in prison for 26 or 27 years. And then he led South Africa and did a fantastic job. There's a time when someone from the outside has to step in and take control, and I think the time in California has come for that."
That's someone telling ABC's Diane Sawyer that, if he decides to run for governor, he could be the Nelson Mandela of California politics. Who?
HINT: Well, when he was imprisoned, Mandela may have actually said, "I'll Be Back."
HINT: But we're pretty sure that Mandela never starred in anything as bad as Kindergarten Cop.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
JEAN: "Come and listen to the story bout a man named Jed.
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.
But then one day he was looking for some food
And up through the ground come a bubbling crude..."
That's the ballad of Jed Clampett, the most famous role of what actor who died this week?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
JEAN: "I've only slept with one person in my whole life... I thought he was the 'one.' But I was wrong! I didn't think he was going to go on Barbara Walters and sell me out."
HINT: That was someone who finally confessed to the world this week that despite her promises to remain a virgin until marriage, she has known another in the biblical sense. Who?
HINT: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's headline on this story was: "Oops, I Did It With Justin."
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
We're the senate gourmands. No lean group.
But one hundred years! What a clean swoop.
A potage of legumes
Said to cause gastric fumes
It's a steaming hot big bowl of _____ _____.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Once the scales and the smell we untether
Salmon maki and shoes go together.
When big tuna they're canning
The skins we are tanning.
We sell soft, high-fashion fish _________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Novice Diners? Help them come to grips.
Mirror back all their foibles and slips
Imitative acuity
Boosts your gratuity.
Mimic, and you'll earn big __________.
•Answer 3
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