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August 23, 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: "You know, Maria and I, we teach our kids ... Don't spend more money than you have.... I promise you that's what I would teach Sacramento."
Who was that, at his first ever press conference as a political candidate?
Hint: It would be almost physically impossible for his kids to spend more money than they have...
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "A lot of people got their desks and offices cleaned."
That's Lisa Ferrara, of the PR Firm Golin/Harris in Houston, finding the only plus-side in her company's inability to use its computers Thursday ... because of what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I am not mourning at all. I would not bury him. I will never touch him. Never. Not even with a very long spoon."
That's the president of Uganda decidedly not unhappy about his predecessor, who died last week in exile ... Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Midnight came and went, and the rock did not roll."
That was the New York Times, reporting that despite a Wednesday night deadline, what remained in the middle of the Alabama Supreme Court building?
HINT: Thou shalt not make religious monuments too big to move without a forklift.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "'Oh, well, you know, our meat was only up to 50 degrees for a whole day, and it's still fine.'"
That, according to NPR's Margot Adler, is what a supermarket meat
counter guy in New York told her on Monday ... that his meat had not been
spoiled by what?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
Carl: The data is interesting. Let's see if the drug holds up to the claims."
That's Dr. Larry Lipshultz expressing some well-worded skepticism about a new product called Levitra, the first competitor for what life-altering medication?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
We big-horn sheep won't hear your ve-toes.
It's chip and dip. Don't say, "Don't eat those."
We love nacho cheese
By baaah, we mean "please"
So pass us the bag of __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Older folks can't hold back a small sniff-le.
No-skill baseball for chil-dren? Oh, pif-fle.
Holey ball, yellow bat.
Ball won't fly straight or flat,
So you swing and you miss with a __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
To end the commuters' hot glow
The trains will make icy winds blow.
The underground's hopes
Rest on help from the slopes.
Let's cool the whole thing down with __________.
•Answer 3
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