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June 26, 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.
NPR's Corey Flintoff this week sits in for Official Judge and Scorekeeper Carl Kasell.
Who's Corey This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
COREY: "It's like being locked in a small room with a very gregarious man who insists on reading his entire appointment book, day by day, beginning in 1946."
That, from the Associated Press, was a line from one of the many less-than-enthusiastic reviews that greeted a big book being published this week -- and by big, we mean big. What book?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
COREY: "You're a girl. Why do you need to be in hardware?"
That, allegedly, was the reaction a female employee of a particular company got when she asked if she could help sell power tools. This week, a judge okayed a class action, gender discrimination suit against the company, so it'll be more than 1 million female employees vs. who?
Hint: Always big lawsuits. Always.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
COREY: "YEE-HAWWWWW!"
That was a man named Mike Melvill, who was ecstatic after successfully returning from his flight to where?
• Answer 3
Who's Corey This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen)
COREY: "I had fantasized from time to time about being a doorman at New York's Plaza hotel. Plaza doormen had nice uniforms and met interesting people from all over the world. I imagined garnering large tips from guests who thought that, despite my strange southern accent, I made good conversation."
That's from a newly released book. Who gave up his dream of opening doors at the Plaza, and instead went into politics?
• Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen)
COREY: "The first time she ever saw me, I was in the Yale Law School lounge bragging to skeptical fellow students about the size of Hope [Ark.] watermelons."
Who first came across the future president as he was bragging about the size of his melons?
• Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen)
COREY: "I spent the first couple of days alternating between begging for forgiveness and planning the strikes on al Qaeda."
That was Clinton's description of his summer vacation in 1998. What did have to beg for forgiveness for?
• Answer 6
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