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Dec. 6, 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 appreciate you coming. Thanks for being here. It's great to be back in Knowledge City... Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."
Who was that, campaigning in what until this week was called Steel City, USA?
Hint: He has reason not to talk about steel.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I'll unseal mine if he'll unseal all of his."
That's Howard Dean challenging President Bush... saying if the president will show his, the hopeful candidate will show his... what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "None of this would have happened if she had been named Washington Marriott."
That was Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, talking about the sudden rise to prominence of what socialite and, now, TV star?
Hint: Think other hotels in other locations.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I was glad to see [him] holding the roast turkey platter -- at last, he's served in the military."
That was a participant in a chat on the Washington Post Web site... being a little snarky about some very widely seen photographs of a man offering a big turkey with all the trimmings to soldiers. Who was finally serving in the military?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "We shall save on fur coats!"
That was Russian President Vladimir Putin, talking about one of the reasons his country might NOT support an international treaty, meant to stop what?
Hint: If we don't stop it, Siberia will become a tropical vacation destination!
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I thought it was marvelous, and I thought only Gertrude could have done it. She had the stubbornness."
That was Aileen Riggin Soule speaking about Gertrude Ederle, who died this week at the age of 98. Ederle was the first woman to do what?
Hint: Nowadays you can just take the Chunnel train.
• Answer 6
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