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July 17, 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: "I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance. Isn't it the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending (this)?"
That's Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) pleading for his side, just before they lost a vote on a constitutional amendment this week. In this time of war and increased threat of terror, what did Santorum declare to be the ultimate threat to the republic?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Relax and enjoy!"
That's on the cover of a particular magazine this month. We found out on Friday that the woman whose name graces the cover of that magazine will be relaxing and enjoying herself for exactly 5 months in prison and then 5 months of home confinement. Who are we talking about?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Mom, do we look like cupcakes?"
That, from Vogue magazine, is what one of a pair of twins asked their mother when the magazine told them to put on poofy formal gowns for a photo. What two girls are making their debut as public figures?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm not a genius but I'm pretty common sense. I'm just a guy. We're all just guys. This guy running as the Democratic candidate, he's just a guy."
That's a guy musing, earlier this week, about bringing his brand of common sense to the race for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. But eventually, he decided that he wasn't the guy for the job. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Insurance companies were having seminars about how to deal with (him)."
That's a lawyer in North Carolina talking about the effect a certain attorney had on defendants in medical malpractice cases. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "You're going to have to go back to school... and try to refigure The Diesel out, you're going to have to figure out statistics, the Pythagorean theory, the distance from Earth to the moon. And by the time you figure that out, I'll be putting up numbers."
That's a former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player announcing to his opponents that they better look out now that he's joined the Miami Heat. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The tag is bold, spray paint is meaty.
It's the phone number of Nefertiti.
The Great Chinese Wall,
It never did fall.
But it's marked up with ancient ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Electromagnetics from far space.
Help cops slow down speeders to our pace.
Now Starsky and Hutch,
Can ease off their clutch.
One zap puts an end to a ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Give me sun, not some bronze from a can.
I just hope my skin never looks wan.
See, I get kinda high,
Off the rays from the sky.
I'm addicted to getting a ________."
•Answer 3
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