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Oct. 4, 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: "Intimi-gate, Frog-March, Novak-aine, and Karl's Bad."
Those are some the names being suggested by commentators for what burgeoning scandal?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "All this has become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something."
That's a nationally known radio host getting about as humble as he'll get. Who had to quit his job as a football analyst because he was just being right?
Hint: His talent, by the way, is on loan from God.
Hint: Another example of excellence in broadcasting.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "The problem with [it] isn't just its price or its bulk or its battery life -- it's the irrefutable argument that when one rides [it], one looks like a major dork."
That was Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times, giving what may be a eulogy for what two-wheeled technological wonder that suddenly isn't so wonderful. What?
Hint: It was going to change the world.
Hint: It was known once as Ginger.
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1 (Listen)
According to U.S. News & World Report, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has been asked by the U.S. government to rename its new warship of the future because the current name, the Sea Blade, is too... what?
• Answer 1
Question 2 (Listen)
A visionary company in Indiana looked at the continuing American trend toward obesity, and decided there was a business opportunity to be had... what does this company make?
• Answer 2
Question 3 (Listen)
A 5-year-old girl in Australia caused quite a sensation when she showed her class how to make what, in show and tell?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I'll put this in layperson's lingo,
You set lapdogs free, and then, bingo!
They roam through the outback,
Gang up in a stout pack,
And soon they turn into the __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I am no spring chick, but a sprung hen.
What songs were sung, flings were flung, then.
Now older, we women,
With vigor are brimmin',
So we like to go out with __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
When I'm tucked in my sheets and I'm spread snug.
My brother gives me one last headhug.
He says, "nightynight,"
Lights off and sleep tight,
But beware the return of the __________.
•Answer 3
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