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June 12, 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 Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
JEAN: "It's Voodoo economics!"
That was somebody, during the 1980 presidential campaign, criticizing Reagan's proposal to increase federal revenues by cutting taxes. Who was this skeptic?
Hint: First he ran against Ronald Reagan, then he ran for him.
Hint: His son just loves that voodoo that he do...
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
JEAN: "We have every kind of mix of people you have... I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple."
That was Reagan's first secretary of the Department of the Interior, describing a commission he had just appointed. Who was this inclusive guy?
Hint: Environmentalists hated him.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
JEAN: "It would be a mistake to say that [it] per se was classified as a vegetable. It was classified as a vegetable in combination with other things... like hamburgers and French fries."
That was a presidential aide clarifying the Reagan administration decision which shook up the food pyramid by classifying what as a vegetable?
Hint: Also, relish!
• Answer 3
Who's Jean This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
JEAN: "What is this 'Piggly Wiggly'?"
That's just one of the odd questions State Department spokesman Barry Bennett answered this week while he escorted foreign diplomats visiting Sea Island, Ga., for what event?
Hint: Bush thought he was attending a summit on the popular canned vegetable drink, until his aides corrected him.
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
JEAN: "Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong / Come and love your daddy all night long / All right now, hey hey / See the girl with the diamond ring / She knows how to shake that thing / All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey"
That's Jean singing "What'd I Say" in tribute to an American music legend who died this week at age 73. Who?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
JEAN: "Many of us have trouble getting our guys to propose marriage in a timely manner. But you? Men take one look at you and call a caterer. What's your secret?"
That was Paige Wiser in the Chicago Sun-Times, noting the irresistibility of a woman who reportedly wed for the third time last weekend. Who?
Hint: Some say the secret is her booty.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Oil cleanup leaves many a mop torn.
And Norway finds old techniques shopworn.
The way it espouses,
Comes from movie houses.
For oil slicks act just like spilled ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
When migraines act up, I'm a mess.
Still, give me more deadlines, not less.
It's past comprehension,
Why I need more tension.
But doctors say I need more ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The Lost Continent what are the chances?
Who knows what the sunken world's slant is.
The pictures are plain,
It's off southern Spain,
The undersea land of ________."
•Answer 3
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