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June 5, 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: "The appointment came after America's first choice, an 81-year-old man turned the job down, taking himself out of the running to pursue his life-long dream of dying of natural causes."
That's Jon Stewart on The Daily Show reporting on the search for a president where?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I've spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?"
That was a Republican senator talking to Conan O'Brien. Who was saying, yet again, that he's not interested in being John Kerry's running mate this November?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "That's ridiculous. That's asinine. It's almost criminal."
That's a Pittsburgh senior citizen on NPR's Morning Edition not holding back when it comes to a new government program for the elderly that began this week. What?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
CARL: "It's a slam dunk!"
That was someone telling the president, back in the fall of 2002, that it was absolutely certain that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. No doubt about it. That man finally resigned this week. Who is it?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
CARL: "We were heroes in error. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important."
That's a man saying earlier this year that the Iraq war was still heroic despite the fact he lied about those Iraqi weapons to get the Bush administration to invade. Over the past couple of weeks, who went from Pentagon favorite to alleged traitor?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
CARL: "Yeah, now [Grandma Millie] wants her (expletive) money back for all the power we've charged right up her (expletive) for $250 a megawatt hour."
That was an energy trader, heard on a just-released tape. He's expressing the deep concern for customers' well being that marked the business practices of what energy company?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
It's so nice here you won't want to soil it.
Some bad aim, a skipped flush and you'll spoil it.
Yes the nation's top prize,
Indoor-plumbing-wise,
Is Sheboygan's award-winning ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
This gator ain't cold as you think.
I'm flushed like I just took a drink.
The other albinos,
Look down at me. I know.
I can't help I turned a bright ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Our fried chicken ads must be more stealthy,
Or the lawyers who sue will be wealthy.
It isn't our fate,
T o help diners lose weight.
KFC's food is really not ________."
•Answer 3
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