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July 31, 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.
There are no limericks this week...
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "Now, I'm not one to read into things, but guess which wing of the hospital the maternity ward was in? I'm not kidding. I was born in the West Wing!"
That was a politician reaching back -- way back -- for a reason people should elect him. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "A year ago they were calling me Alabama and 'Yo, mama.'"
That was someone who can be confident people will get his name right, after his keynote address Tuesday night. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "You said something I didn't say -- now shove it!"
That was a lady offering some trenchant criticism to a reporter. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "We need more balloons. I want all balloons to go. There's not enough coming down! All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the (BLEEP) are you guys doing up there?"
That's what CNN viewers heard this week as the balloons failed to fall. Where?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It was like going without power and having to use a candle. It's become so much a part of everyday life that I was lost without it."
That's an Internet marketing man talking about the loss of a Web site on Monday because of a virus attack. What site has become as important as light bulbs?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "You were always coming home and saying things like that, so naturally I thought nothing of it."
That's what the wife of Francis Crick thought when her husband came home one day in 1953 and said he'd discovered the structure of something. Crick died this week at age 88. His wife should have listened, because Crick had just told her that he was the man who broke the code... of what?
• Answer 6
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