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September 20, 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: "Category 2 storm, category 5 hype."
That's pundit Gregg Easterbrook's take on what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "His core constituency: People who can't make up their minds."
That's the Washington Post naming the Americans who initially share something with the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race: Who?
• Answer 2
Who's Carl Round II
Question 3 (Sorry, there's no audio available for this question.)
CARL: "He's the classic Horatio Alger story. Unfortunately, he was like Horatio Alger on steroids."
That's Columbia University securities law professor John C. Coffee in the Washington Post talking about a man who had to quit his job this week... just because he did TOO well: Who?
• Answer 3
Question 4 (Sorry, there's no audio available for this question.)
CARL: "To explore every phony statement in the interview would take far more space than is available."
That was the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which devoted a full page editorial to what they said were just the highlights of whose statements about the war in Iraq?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Sorry, there's no audio available for this question.
Carl: "Voters Dump (tax) Like a Clump of Used Grounds."
That's a Washington Post headline regarding Seattle voters saying no to an increased tax on what?
• Answer 5
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