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July 10, 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: We've got a better vision. We've got real ideas... And we have better hair."
That was John Kerry, of course, proclaiming his new partnership with the only politician in America who has hair as good as he does. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "'Congratulations on your exclusive, have a nice day."
That was a note sent by the staff of the New York Daily News to their hated rival, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. On Tuesday, the day Kerry picked Edwards, the Post published a front-page exclusive saying what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "It's not anymore the two-ply... Because you know what? We're trimming. We're living within our means."
Who is assuring us that "it's not anymore the two-ply?"
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Our business is extremely strong, and our growth prospects have never been better."
And a few days later:
"There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no previously unknown problem issues."
And in that same interview:
"The company is probably in the strongest and best shape that it has ever been in."
The man who made those happy forecasts for his company was indicted this week on charges that, in essence, he was lying through his teeth when he said those things. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "'You guys want to hear this speech or not?"
That's someone making his standard campaign speech this week, and not being too happy when the crowd cheered him on. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "Well, that's all right now mama / That's all right for you / That's all right now Mama / Just any way you do."
That song was played simultaneously on more than 1,000 radio stations Monday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of whose first record?
• Answer 3
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