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Aug. 14, 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 guest host Richard Sher.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "A little rain isn't going to bother me. I'm too old for that."
That's a 73-year-old man named John Poppell, who told USA Today that he will not be moved by... what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Finally, a Democrat who can honestly say, 'I did not have sex with that woman.'"
That's Jay Leno talking about a Democrat who stunned his constituents by coming out of the closet and resigning his office. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Bon Appetit!"
That's how a woman ended her show each week. She died Friday at age 91. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "You bet we might have."
That attempt at a decisive statement came from someone who was asked whether he, too, would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein for not disarming. Who said definitely maybe?
• Answer 5
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Tribal sovereignty means that -- it's sovereignty. I mean, you're a -- you're a -- you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."
Who said that?
• Answer 3
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: (Carl screams.)
That is Carl's attempt to recreate the scream of one of cinema's historic screamers. The actress who became a legend for her shriek died this week at the age of 96. Who?
Hint: She was the beauty that killed the beast.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Priests are not playing softball in shorts,
But promote more love on tennis courts.
We want fairness and morals,
Not "ball" or "strike" quarrels.
At the pope's new department of ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Though "Rose" and "Roz" might smell the same,
"Roz" sounds hot, "Rose" just seems tame.
It's not looks and fashion,
That rouse up some passion.
No, sex appeal lies in your ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
This singles scene is quite befuddling.
No more at a bar am I huddling.
I leave noisy DJs,
And slip on my PJs
At parties for close cozy ________.
•Answer 3
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