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Nov. 22, 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: "It was pointed out to me that the last noted American to visit London stayed in a glass box dangling over the Thames. A few might have been happy to provide similar arrangements for me!"
That was somebody thanking the people of Britain for treating him better than they treated magician David Blaine... who DID NOT have to sleep in a glass box on his visit?
Hint: But they did litter his room with bowls of pretzels...
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Sacred? Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman did it."
That was comedienne Margaret Cho, speaking on NPR's Morning Edition... wondering how a recent court decision could ever make things worse than they already are. What did this decision make possible?
Hint: It was in Massachusetts.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Round things seem to be less belligerent than the angles."
That's a man named John Hench explaining that a certain character became rounder and, therefore, more friendly in his 75 years. What character?
Hint: Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I know the sky probably seems brighter to you no matter where you are. The air is cleaner, the water is purer, and it's not because of the environmentalist wackos. It's because I'm back, right?"
That's a man heralding his return to the radio airwaves after a five-week hiatus. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "My brother is not eccentric!"
That's a man sticking up for his chimp-owning, fairy-tale-ranch residing, Elephant-Man-bones purchasing brother who was arrested this week. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "He will be wearing a gray Prada suit. She will be wearing a gray Valentino skirt suit with a cream shell."
So... what high-office holder thought it was important to provide this information to the press this week?
Hint: We don't think anybody cared what Gray Davis wore at his inauguration.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Six are great, but it's too many wrongs.
I'll tell YOU where your remix belongs.
Take half of your tracks,
And give them the ax.
Your CD just has too many __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
As an outlaw, the Kid was a giant.
Of the courts the young man was defiant.
But I think that Pat Garrett,
Was given false merit.
I defend Mr. Kid as my __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
When the guest with the false breasts confessed,
I was pressed to request some bed rest.
Though her book club's the best,
With my mind she has messed.
Oh, yeah, Oprah is making me __________.
•Answer 3
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