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September 27, 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: "Congress is usually a slow-moving beast. But when 50 million Americans are mad, we can be a real speedy rabbit."
That's U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.)... it takes Congress years to pass an energy policy, or campaign reform, but this week they jumped like a bunny to save... what?
Hint: The 50 million Americans are mad because they keep being interrupted during dinner.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "He deserves a good beating with my shoes."
That's an Egyptian cleaning lady giving her critique of a big speech given at the United Nations this week... by whom?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "For those who didn't believe me and didn't think I deserve it: Ha, ha, ha."
That was Erika Dunlap, graciously accepting what honor that she won last weekend?
Hint: There she is...
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "This is the way you treat women -- we know that. But not now."
That was Arianna Huffington attacking whom this week?
Hint: To look him in the eye, she stood on Cruz Bustamante.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "If I've learned one thing in my nine days of politics, you better be careful with hypothetical questions."
That's a man who got into trouble answering just those kind of "What if?" questions but still climbed to the top of the polls: Who?"
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "It's boring to sing your own songs... really I just get sick of it."
That's a singer in an upcoming Reader's Digest telling the world she just can't stand the sound of her own voice: Who?
Hint: "People... people who are BORING... "
Hint: "She doesn't have 'misty water color memories' of the way she sings.
Hint: "Talk about "raining on your own parade."
Hint: She's not a "Woman In Love" with her own voice.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Relativity, big cranium, wild mane.
Albert shrugs, "All the rest was just vain."
Now the essence of Einstein's
Afloat in a brine shrine.
"Just what have you done with my __________?"
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Before we broke ground with our plows
We drove dogies by the sweat of our brows.
And now Ellsworth frowns.
We've peopled our town
By stealing their incoming __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Topographical studies we can make.
They're thorough, it's for the whole span's sake.
With science's patness
We've proven the flatness.
And Kansas beats out IHOP's __________.
•Answer 3
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