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Nov. 29, 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)
"If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored."
That was somebody talking to reporters back in 1984, inviting them to follow him around and see how boring his private life really was. Unfortunately for him, they took him up on it. Who was it?
Hint: He had No Excuses afterwards.
Hint 2: It was just a little Monkey Business.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm going to say up front, it's petty. But I think it's human."
That was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. He was angry about having to sit in back of Air Force One during a trip overseas in 1995. He was so angry, he did what?
Hint: Federal workers -- 100,000 of them -- stayed home, just because Newt was "human."
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "[It] can become a major source of protein for a hungry world... people worldwide will be able to achieve dramatic improvements in their diets."
That was North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, speaking in 1981 of a miracle food that would feed the hungry all over the world. What?
Hint: Well, people were already chewing it... it was just a matter of getting them to swallow.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "They're like dinosaurs in The Lost World. They have big teeth; they breed like crazy, and wherever they go women are running and screaming."
That's Jay Leno describing a whole political family. Who are these political dinosaurs?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "He is your typical smiling, brilliant, back-stabbing, BSing southern nut-cutter."
That was labor leader Lane Kirkland, talking about a U.S. president. Who?
Hint: He really was a nut-cutter... literally.
Hint: A peanut cutter.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "Filthy story teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate."
That was Harper’s magazine, offering a measured take on a prominent politician of the 19th century. Who?
Hint: This filthy story teller, despot and liar freed the slaves and saved the Union.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Reagan, when seeing her stray ploy,
Said, "Patty, I hoped you would stay coy.
You're photographed nude.
I wonder who's viewed,
My daughter exposing for __________. "
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I got cash flow in sore need of fixin',
But my woes don't match up with poor Dick's sin.
If you're in a repast mood,
See Donald for fast food.
Yes, buy juicy burgers from __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Sold my own beer, it's one chilly starter.
But I messed up with that silly charter.
Made a quick tour of Libya,
My bad, I won't fib ya
I'm a good ol' boy, I'm __________.
•Answer 3
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