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Aug. 7, 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: "Hurrah, boys... we've caught them napping!"
That was what a particular soldier said right before going to battle with some Indians in 1876. Who?
Hint: It was the last thing he was heard to say.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "A Lion in your Lap, a Lover in your Arms!'"
That was the promo line for the 1952 film Bwana Devil, the first movie with what special feature?
Hint: It's hard to imagine a real lover would be interested in you while you wearing those silly glasses.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Changing it is like God making the grass purple or putting toes on our ears or teeth on our knees."
That was an outraged consumer in 1985, perhaps overreacting to the introduction of what new-and-improved product?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Who'd they pick for this dangerous gig? Me.
Go to Zanzibar, over the big sea.
Meet the short, fearsome tribe,
And, with cunning or bribes,
They want me to bring back a ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
From 2,000 feet they want to plunge me.
Hooked to cables of rubber. Quite spongy.
With two hundred people,
I'm pushed from that steeple.
And we'll be the first ones to ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
To show off my new belly dance,
The pianist needs notes in advance.
I hummed a brief tune.
The words followed soon,
About ladies in France with no ________.
•Answer 3
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