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Nov. 15, 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 easily could have gone on into (Tuesday) morning. I didn't go to the bathroom until I got home."
That's Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., talking about something that most of our distinguished senators did for long uninterrupted stretches this week. What?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Where is the exit?"
That, according to The Washington Post, was an unidentified official summing up the changing U.S. policy on what?
Hint: We would suggest the exit at Baghdad International Airport.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I have seasonal answers. In the summer: 'I like it down there because it's cool.' In the winter: 'I like it down there because it's warm.' Then I've got one that isn't seasonal: 'Go to hell.'"
That man wasn't a sewer worker, but he played one on TV. He died this week at the age of 85. Who was it?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "(He) was rushed to an undisclosed fundraiser."
That's David Letterman on the Late Show. Who was protected from a potential attack by being covered in huge piles of money?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "No, that's not me on that cover of the magazine. That's not me on the TV. It's something I want to put behind me... I don't want to be no movie star."
That's a young woman shunning -- sort of -- the recent media storm surrounding her with TV interviews, magazine cover stories, made-for-TV movies and now a book. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I would certainly want a dynamic, outspoken woman who was fearless in her desire for peace in the world, for universal single-payer health care and for a full-employment economy. If you're out there, call me!"
That's Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich at a debate last week "fantasizing" that if he wins, he'll have to find the right woman to be what?
• Answer 6
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