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Oct. 25, 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: "[Donald] Rumsfeld has stepped on many toes at the Pentagon... and this was the revenge of the toes."
That was an anonymous congressional staffer talking to The New York Times The toes got back at Rumsfeld this week, by leaking a memo he wrote saying what?
Hint: They're leaky little toes.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I love free speech."
That was President Bush, addressing the Australian parliament this week. How did that august body welcome the Leader of the Free World?
Hint: Well, to be fair, it was just two of them.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm glad he's safe. That's what I told him, and never to do that again."
That was a worried mother named Doris Jones. She was relieved, and somewhat scolding, after her son survived doing what this week?
Hint: He's the first person to do it and survive without a barrel.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I had nothing to do with these crimes directly or indirectly. And prosecutors couldn't possibly know otherwise. They (weren't) there. I was. I know what happened."
Declarations such as that one led a defendant in a case of horrific crimes to fire himself as his own defense lawyer. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Rather than condemning the kid, buy him a drink. In fact, buy him an outfit and hire him!"
That's Neil Cavuto of Fox News advising the Transportation Security Administration not to bury a certain 20-year-old college student, but to hire him. What did that college student do?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "The first time I ever [did it], it was a bit of a white-knuckle ride. I am more used to it now."
That was actress Joan Collins, reminiscing on something that she did for the last time this week. What?
Hint: It's not a person... it's a thing.
Hint: It's a thing that goes very fast.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I'm neatly dressed, I'm not a clothes slob.
But I'm handicapped by this big rose knob.
Tehran's laws don't differ,
So I'll work on my sniffer.
I'll go out and get me a __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Of my sales moves, this last one is shrewdest.
I target buff lovers who're prudest.
See, just showing skin,
Can sometimes wear thin.
So I'm selling clothing to __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Those Lycra pants, false tan, fake trimmin's.
With anger the captain is brimmin'.
"Hey, pal, this is my flight,
So stay locked and upright.
Prance back to your seat, Richard __________."
•Answer 3
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