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May 29, 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: "Abugah-Rayp," Abu-Garon," "Abu-Garah."
That was someone who couldn't quite manage the pronunciation of a prison that's been much in the news, during a speech on Monday night. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It's still more important to have the right number of cup holders."
That's market researcher Art Spinella saying that despite high gas prices, Americans are still buying those gas-guzzling whats?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Scientists say the movie isn't realistic because [it] happens so quickly. But you know, it's not a documentary -- I only have two hours." "
That was director Roland Emmerich admitting to the New York Daily News that his summer blockbuster may not actually reflect reality. Which big movie tries to stuff way too much stuff into two hours?
Hint: The stuff in question would actually take millennia to occur, if it did occur.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I wouldn't soil my pants yet, but just keep in mind that pants soiling sometime this summer is imminent."
That's Craig Kilborn on CBS's the Late Late Show (cleaned up for our show). He was paraphrasing Attorney General John Ashcroft's warning on Wednesday that, this summer the United States might see... what?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "If they consider my participation essential, I'll try to convince them otherwise."
That's a man named Hussain Shahristani, who, apparently against his will, had been named as the leading candidate to be the new prime minister of what country?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: "Hair France."
That's the name some reporters are giving to the new airplane that was unveiled this week by whom?
Hint: Its fuselage is advertised to be just as stiff as he is.
Hint: If things go his way, he'll swap it for Hair Force One.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
A guard dog, well, sometimes he dozes.
But plants maintain vigilant poses.
Anterior warning,
Posterior thorning.
Yes, I am well guarded by ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
When a patient's bacteria fly,
They stick to a doc who's a guy.
The microbial specks,
Get a ride on his neck.
And their host is a loose, dangling ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Agnew's gone, all our trust has eroded.
And the medicine smell's been decoded.
So now Kissinger's mixin',
A stiff drink for Nixon,
Saying, "Nixon can't talk. He is ________."
•Answer 3
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