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Nov. 1, 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: "I thought about lighting... the fireplace. But I don't think that'd be a very good idea right now."
That's a man named Alan Wheeler, happy to find his home intact, but deciding a roaring fire wouldn't be the right touch... because of what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Unofficially: We got squirted by the sun."
That's Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post explaining what somewhat scatalogical phenomenon this week?
• Answer 2
Here's your last quote about a disaster in the news. Actually, it's a series of quotes about a group of disasters.
Number one!
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "He reminds us of one of those graven images at Madame Tussaud's, only waxier."
And this one...
CARL: "The way he manages to take the air out of a room is almost Dole-esque."
And finally:
CARL: "Can that accent be real? We haven't heard one so over-the-top since Al Gore... went 'home' to Tennessee."
That was the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, editorializing on what is, in their opinion... an 18-legged, man-made disaster?
Hint: 18-legged would imply there are nine of them.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I didn't want to say exactly the line, 'I'll be back. But I will be back many more times, believe me.' "
That's a man who may need a support group if he ever hopes to stop using this line. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who fell head over heels in love with -- and later married -- a toad. She was the sweetest of girls who never uttered a rude word and wouldn't ever have cheated on her husband if the rotter hadn't cheated on her first. "
That's Chris Hampson of NBC News giving his synopsis of the plot of a new book that has taken Britain by storm. A new book about who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I know there's a need for news conferences in the morning, but we've got breakfast to put out."
That's a school lunch lady in Minnesota dutifully serving up French toast fingers just a day after she and 14 of her cafeteria coworkers did what?
Hint: The odds that they would do it were something like 120 million to 1.
• Answer 6
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