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August 16, 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: "Lady, these are extenuating circumstances."
That's New York police officer Patrick Ward explaining to a stranded commuter, with typical patience, why the bridges out of the city weren't working. What were these extenuating circumstances?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Don't Blame Us!"
That's one headline about the blackout. Who was telling the United States, "Don't look at me?"
HINT: The movie South Park blamed them in song.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: I hope it lasts for 20 years. Let them feel our suffering."
That was someone reacting with less-than-good feeling toward the suffering of blacked-out Americans. What country's residents were enjoying a little power-outage schadenfreude, at our expense?
HINT: At least our blackout wasn't preceded by a bombing campaign.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "R, W, Q, O, J, M, V, A, H, B, S, G, Z, X."
That innovative version of the alphabet will take the place of the familiar one, for the purposes of what event?
HINT: They're ignoring all the other rules of rational behavior, so why not the alphabet too?
HINT: Because of this, Schwarzenegger comes before Flynt.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: (The country) Switches From Charles In Charge To Who's The Boss?
That's Plastic.com's headline about the changes that took place in a certain nation this week. What country has now reached The Outer Limits of political chaos?
HINT: Spin-offs might include: 8 Rules for Inserting U.S. Peacekeepers, and the favorite reality series, MTV's Rebel Rules.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: "At night, we sleep naked. If the neighbors don't want to be shocked, then they shouldn't look."
That's a French policeman named "Fred" talking about how he and his lady friend are dealing with what?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I've just checked the new DNA stats
They explain why I'm leery of cats.
With rodents I'm warmer
(and a sneaky informer)
I'm more closely related to __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I love how finger cymbals make noise.
And firm abs give my body great poise.
Baggy pants, moving pelvis
(Like Jeannie meets Elvis)
Belly dancing is also for __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
We Italians would roam far from Rome
And cavort in some far-off sea's foam.
But our cashflow is low.
So by sunlamps we glow,
And we send off fake postcards from __________.
•Answer 3
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