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August 30, 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: "Would it be rude to ask of this particular celestial phenomenon: So what?"
That's the The Washington Post's David Montgomery, voicing what may have been a minority opinion about this week's close encounter with what ethereal visitor?
Hint: Funny... it's not that red, really.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "[He] is McGovern without the folksy charm."
That is an anonymous comment from The New York Post's Page Six. Who, despite his recent surge in the polls, do some cynics believe will be as bad a candidate for the Democrats as George McGovern was in 1972?
Hint: McGovern didn't have nearly as much success raising money on the Internet.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I came to work and it was $1.83. I went to the bank, it was $1.90. I went to lunch it was $1.99."
That was a man in Connecticut, saying that every time he turned his back, the price of what was going higher and higher?
• Answer 3
Carl Kassell's Countdown
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Our first tune is a little ditty by the hard-rockin' George Thorogood and his equally hard-rockin' band, the Destroyers."
A prominent organization issued a scathingly self-critical report this week, saying that they were in fact, bad right down to the bone -- and they don't mean that in a good way. What organization?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It's everybody's favorite old folkie, Pete Seeger, with a stirring song of protest."
They were holding hands and humming that song in France this week, when sprinter Jon Drummond did what after being disqualified for a race at the world track championships?
Hint: Maybe he was just trying to get a day job as a hurdle.
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
Carl: "I got this, Peter: a classic Ray Stevens sing-a-long from 1970."
It turns out that back in the 1970s, a certain current gubernatorial candidate thought everything and everybody was beautiful, and didn't restrain himself from indulging those feelings... Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
With a wet mop and broom I'm careening.
Oh, don't tell me you think that's demeaning.
I add marital spice.
And the place? It looks nice.
See, my wife thinks I'm hot when I'm __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Who's that pencil-necked health bureaucrat?
He would levy the fries from my vat.
So I burst my slacks,
Why can't he relax
And not tax our foods high in __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Oh, don't you believe this old mag's hype.
Their survey seems just like a gag, ripe.
The highland reed's drone
Won't make your head groan.
There's nae harm in playing a __________.
•Answer 3
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