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Nov. 8, 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: "Ketchup is a vegetable! It is not a meat, right? So IT IS a vegetable."
That was a line from a TV mini-series that CBS cancelled this week. Who was the subject of this controversial biopic?
Hint: Other lines might have included, "You took the money from the Iranians
and gave it to WHO?"
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour,
and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife
Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on
traditional Christian marriage."
That was a letter writer to the Los Angeles Times, worried about what Henry VIII would have thought of the Episcopal Church... after it finally did what this week?
Hint: At least the guy has stayed faithful to the same, uh, person for 15
years...
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "You've lost that loving feeling... Oh-oh that loving feeling..."
That's one of the two signature songs featuring Bobby Hatfield, who died
this week at age 63. Hatfield was one of the two men who formed what
singing group?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "The best I can do is to listen and hug and empathize as best as I can empathize."
That's someone telling Californians that they'll get hugs to help the fire victims, but no new federal aid. Who said it?
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "The concept is sort of liquid Drano for the coronary arteries."
That was cardiologist Steven Nissen, revealing an experimental treatment that may be an artery-cleaning breakthrough. What is the unlikely substance that may save millions of arteries?
Hint: This doesn't mean you can chow down on cheeseburgers.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "If we're going to make a cake, Barbara, my cake can't be a flop. People
won't watch my show if I make a flop."
That's a woman explaining to ABC's Barbara Walters that's it not her who wants to be perfect all the time... it's that her audience demands it... who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
At our phallic town sculpture some whistle.
"It's not that! No, it's space stuff," we bristle.
Retired ballistic,
Ain't immoralistic.
See Warren and visit our __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
This fine I've picked up makes me bitter.
Good thing I did not touch the critter.
Hey, mister park ranger,
I'm clean, I'm no danger.
Don't cite me for picking up __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Our taxes are light, not impingey.
Yet New Hampshire's clean, it's not dingy.
But it's not free living,
That keeps us from giving.
It's simply that we are too __________.
•Answer 3
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