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May 15, 2004
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: "You're doing a superb job."
That was the president giving a gold star to a member of his Cabinet this week. Other opinions were decidedly less favorable. Who are we talking about?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Licker Shock."
That term has been all over the news this week to reflect the suddenly rising price of what?
Hint: Some parents have found it's actually cheaper to give their kids a cup of frozen, unleaded gas with a cherry on top.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "LIAR! LIAR! All you want to do is see Brad Pitt! LIAR!"
That's a husband -- quoted in The Chicago Tribune -- not buying his wife's stated motives for wanting to see a big bloody action movie that opened this week. What movie?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Have you had a beer with me yet? I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time."
That, according to Reuters, was a man insisting he really is someone you'd want to have a beer with. Who's trying hard to be like a regular guy?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It's almost like we're the gay Niagara Falls."
That's a tourism director in a state that, come Monday, will be the gay and lesbian wedding capital of the United States. What state?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: "They will fly clumsily into pets, bushes and unwitting pedestrians as they engage in a frenetic mating ritual that lasts well into June."
That's The Washington Post describing what kind of frenetic mating ritual?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Little men grace my house. Pardon, home.
Ceramic guys in hardened loam.
Now my neighbors intrude;
Say the nude guys are crude.
I must take down my lewd ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
"Cheers to the EU," shout the toasters.
"That's not true," say I, "read their posters."
I set down my beer,
And new members appear.
The info's right here on these ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
No blue jokes for the blue-blooded scene.
I made sure hands and punchlines were clean.
Kissed her majesty's ring.
"How are you, Mr. King?"
So I said, "How are you, Mrs. ________."
•Answer 3
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