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July 26, 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: "I don't want him dead. I want to torture him first."
That's a Baghdad TV producer telling MSNBC that he wasn't so happy to hear that one of two men had been killed before he could get ahold of him. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The highlight of your career will be the day you are elected. It will be all downhill from there."
That's a governor telling those who hope to recall and replace him that they might be happier just staying at home. What governor said, "You're better off letting me suffer?"
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Sittin' Jack Flash"
That headline is how The Daily Mail described the aging of a star, who turns 60 this weekend. Who is he?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Every war needs a hero. Rickenbacker... Kennedy... she's the hero in this war. The facts don't particularly matter."
That's West Virginia resident James Roberts showing his pride in an American soldier who received a hero's welcome this week when she returned home from Iraq. Who is she?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. You can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up."
That man was sticking up for President Bush amid the controversy over Iraq's questionable quest for Nigerian uranium. Who thinks Americans should be forgiving, because every president makes boo-boos?
HINT: He ought to know.
HINT: One pundit said of this, that the Bush administration did not have sexual relations with that country.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: One critic said this is possibly the worst line ever said in a movie: "It's turkey time! Come on, gobble, gobble."
That line is uttered by a singer and actress in her new movie, a flick in which she stars with her equally famous fiancé. Who is she?
HINT: We've said it before. We say it again -- she's got a big butt.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The elf delegates endlessly banta
'bout where reindeer truly do canta.
They've denied Finland's role
When they place the North Pole.
They say Greenland's the real home of __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
The macaque. When a rough nose he seeks
Through her makeup he'll give nosy peeks.
Then, with subterfuge,
He'll apply lots of rouge
Because girl monkeys love __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Mellow country birds I don't desire.
I love loud songs from up on a wire.
There might be a place
For the country bird's bass.
But those city birds sing so much __________.
•Answer 3
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