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July 24, 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'm about halfway through [it] and I'm amazed at its fast pace, its factual reporting, written with a novel flair. This book beats any bestseller book on the shelves today."
That was a reviewer posting on Amazon.com praising a new bestseller that was released, with much fanfare, on Thursday. What new work of non-fiction reads like an exciting novel?
Hint: We all know how it ends, and it doesn't end well.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Is it possible to inadvertently put things in your socks? It's just something that I was pondering in the middle of the night."
That was CNN Anchor Jack Cafferty, pondering one of the key questions about a new scandal in the news, accusations that who might have been smuggling classified documents in his socks?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but... there is no possibility of using (them) to travel to other universes. If you jump into (one), your mass energy will be returned to our universe."
That's astrophysicist Stephen Hawking saying he was wrong about certain cosmic phenomena. What doesn't destroy everything it consumes, but just sort of crunches it up?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I call them girlie men."
That was a politician commenting on his political opponents. That comment, made last week, has caused the first real crisis in the tenure of whom?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Greeted new neighbors with freshly baked bread."
and:
"Gave cocoa to the parents of children appearing on her television show."
and:
While visiting Peru, she "took underprivileged children to Machu Picchu."
Those are a few of the things we now know, courtesy of The Smoking Gun, that someone claimed to have done in order to get a break in sentencing. Whose good works are these?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "People want a spectacle, they want a close race, suspense, and upsets. For several years now, we've been bored."
That's a French journalist, bored with the success of whom?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
From this paradox I do not shrink.
It's a Krispy Kreme riddle, I think.
There's a cold liquid flow, but,
It tastes like a donut.
This deepfried, yet iced, blended ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Ooh, don't stand too close when I fret.
I've an aura your nose might regret.
So I'll put my glands,
In Botox's hands.
I'll fix it so I will not ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The CDs we got are quite revoltin'.
Chanting monks won't set listeners ajoltin'.
To top it all off,
It's that guy with the coif.
Two hundred discs by Michael ________."
•Answer 3
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