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Oct. 18, 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: "Take me out of the Midwest.
Take me far from the crowd.
Buy me some airfare and fake ID.
I'm real sure that I'll never come back."
That version of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" was written by The Washington Post's Tom Boswell for a certain gentleman in Chicago. Who?
Hint: He got all the blame for this week for a big disaster.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The person who is in charge is me."
After a week in which his staff engaged in public infighting and backbiting, who felt the need to say he was in charge?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "To prepare for a G-force exercise, he would spin in circles on his living room floor. Every waking moment was devoted to becoming the best he could be."
That was The Washington Post, describing the training regimen of Yang Liwei, who piloted China's first expedition... where?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I can't wait to go to Wendy's. I mean, you can't go wrong with Wendy's."
That's a man named Juan Castillo telling The New York Times about his dining plans while visiting home, during a brief break from his day job, where?
Hint: Because freedom, and Frosties, are worth fighting for.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river."
That's someone on his short-lived TV show eight years ago. Who may now have reason to think jail time for illicit drug users is not the way to go?
Hint: His TV show died, but he's been much more successful on the radio.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "No, it's not pink. They're not pink. I don't know where that came from. They're peach."
That was a man named Tom Ferguson, clarifying, for The Washington Post, the exact rosy hue of the updated WHATS that were seen for the first time this week?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
With my mouth full I sputter a lispy scream,
"Take my dough and invest in your wispy dream.
Hot and fresh they're amazing,
You guys are trailglazing.
Sell your cakes hot and call yourself __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Whole hog or shoulder, who's boss?
The West adds tomato. Their loss.
With vinegar's prominence
The East claims its dominance.
It's got the right barbecue __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Got my mortar board and my snarled tassel.
But the airwaves here were a gnarled hassle.
But now I'm a master,
A real live newscaster,
I sign on yours truly __________.
•Answer 3
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