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Aug. 28, 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: "(He) carries shrapnel in his thigh as distinct from (the other guy) who carries two fillings in his teeth from his service in the Alabama National Guard."
That's John Podesta, former Clinton White House chief of staff, making light of what controversy?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm going to play it by ear. I'm opening for business, but the only people I can see making money, I guess, is the hookers."
That's an Upper East Side hair stylist in New York worried that the city may not make all that much money after all, from what upcoming event?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Really? Darn! What if... Sigh. OK."
That was John Kroll in Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. He was suggesting the perfect obituary for the person who named the five stages of grief. She passed away this week at the age of 78. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
When the papers looked like I just bled.
The students for better grades pled.
To avoid their great dread,
Angry colors I shed.
Now purple is this season's ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
It's the great common smell of the summer.
For masculine men, like my plumber.
Don't pour it full throttle,
From your truck-shaped bottle.
It's the super-sized scent of the ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Kathie Lee says, "I find it egregious.
Though the Guiness Book makes it prestigious.
TV land devours,
Fifteen thousand hours,
Of that short, smiley host they call ________.
•Answer 3
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