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August 9, 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'm a uniter, not a divider."
That's a newly minted California gubernatorial candidate from his appearance on NBC's Today Show. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I might be paralyzed from the waist down but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up."
That was one of the people who'll be running against Arnold come October. Who else is throwing his hat in the ring?
HINT: He said at his announcement he's a "smut peddler who cares."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
From the Los Angeles Times: "Nearly as unwatchable as it is unpronounceable!"
From Newsweek: "It has an annihilating effect on your will to live!"
From CBS's The Late Late Show: "It was so bad I had to see it twice to be sure Madonna wasn't in it."
Those were some of the raves that rolled in upon the release of what movie?
HINT: The leading man and lady are an item, which has gotten some news.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm hiding under my desk til it's over."
That's an official of the Episcopal Church talking to Newsday. Episcopalians are in an uproar over a vote to allow whom to be a bishop of the church?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Course we're gonna get Elvis. Last I heard he was working in a Burger King down in Tikrit."
That's a senior United States military official talking about the wily man the military has nicknamed Elvis. Who is he talking about?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: "From a business perspective, it's great for the NBA. It's reality television, people love train wreck television and you hate to admit it, but that is the truth, that's the reality today."
That's Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban putting a positive spin on what NBA star who's suddenly, and prominently, in the news?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
While in Britain sweat runs like a mop's trickle,
We penguins mope, ceasing our hop's tickle.
To bring back our waddle
Zookeepers don't dawdle.
They feed us some fish-flavored __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
No pills help like this insect's meat'll.
Eat it full-grown, not larval or fetal.
Since we can't afford drugs,
We say fight bugs with bugs.
For your health, please just swallow these __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Sure, she's svelte, leaning to anorex-y,
But her mind's marred by slight apoplexy.
Yes, the weather man's slick chick
Has ruined my picnic.
I think weather girls shouldn't be __________.
•Answer 3
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