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Dec. 13, 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's our sandbox, and we are going to play in it, and you are not."
That, according to one foreign policy analyst, is the essence of the U.S. message that will prevent France, Russia and Germany from bidding on contracts to work where?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I greatly appreciate this. I've only sung one time, and here I'm going to be Musician of the Year."
That’s a former senator who had to constantly respond to people who thought he was a famous musician with the same name. This former senator with a famous name died this week. Who?
• Answer 2
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "They're telling you if you don't take it (that way) you're going to pay through the hoozy-ding to get it later."
That's a Maryland senior citizen giving his analysis of a big bill that President Bush signed on Monday. What?
• Answer 3
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "The people have spoken. Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job."
That's California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger telling CNN that he's too busy with the state budget to get to something promised during the campaign... an investigation into what?
Hint: He couldn't do it, because it seems the target of the investigation wouldn't cooperate.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine."
That's Keith Richards speaking, perhaps with a bit of envy, about his mate Mick Jagger who may start wearing these trappings of royalty now that he's been... what?
Hint: Paul McCartney received this honor, so Mick had to get even.
• Answer 5
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Most of Shanghai's commuters cry, "Yikes!"
Chinese roadways are changing their likes.
What our city now needs,
Is less velocipedes.
Let's make streets more unfriendly to __________. "
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
When Prince Harry looked at his phone's screen,
Hailed the winning squad off of the green.
"A message from nan!
She's a great rugby fan.
So let's go hang out with the __________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
It's Viagra for slightly less money.
It's sweet, and it's sticky and runny.
To lengthen your tryst,
Say our apiarists,
Whet your whistle with thistle-based __________.
•Answer 3
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