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Sept. 4, 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: "People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it."
That was the first big laugh line in a speech on Thursday night, given by whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "This is the man who wants to be the commander-in -chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?"
That was just one comment about John Kerry made by a rather excited speaker, Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "You know all those times when you're growing up and your parents embarrass you? Well, this is payback time on live TV."
That was one of two women who spoke Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Who got tired of their parents embarrassing them, and decided to do it on their own?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "This is the worst vacation ever. We waited a whole year to take this vacation."
That's a Chicago man named Joe Martinez, who, along with three of his friends, is having to cut his vacation to Miami Beach short, because of what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "They have cried piteously about the affair, their misery only heightened because the perfect tabloid headline, 'Yanks Yank Yang,' doesn’t translate into Korean."
That's MSNBC's Whiners page taking the nation of South Korea to task for its incessant complaints regarding what?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "We're going to have a great September... starting tomorrow."
That's a baseball star trying to forget that his team ended the month of August with the worst defeat in the franchise's 101-year history. What team?
• Answer 6
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