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Oct. 9, 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: "I'm not telling."
That was one of the more straight forward responses to a question that was asked at what event Friday night.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."
That was somebody delivering what was supposed to the Zinger of the Evening Wednesday night. Who declared he had never, ever met his opponent, until that very moment?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend."
and...
"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
and...
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
Those were just three of the thousands of jokes a comedian told at his own expense. Now St. Peter is insulting him, because he died this week at the age of 82. Who?
Hint: He got no respect!
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Rarely have so many been so wrong about so much."
That's how the BBC paraphrased Winston Churchill to describe the implications of a major report that was delivered this week to the U.S. Congress. The report says, once and for all, that there are no what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It was like a big burp."
That was a woman named Pam Morret, one of many who went out of their way this last week to sit and watch what?
Hint: The people were hoping to see a much bigger burp.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I don’t take showers. Or if there is no other way to bathe, I make sure all the doors and windows in the house are locked, and I leave the bathroom door and shower curtain open."
That was an actress letting us know why she never, ever took a shower again, after a famous one she enjoyed in 1960. She died this week. Who was she?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The astronauts cry, "This is bunk!
In high heavens our load sure has stunk.
Ev'ry alternate year,
Is too seldom, we fear.
Man, when will they pick up our ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
At the bar we are spreading good cheer.
"What we've all dreamed about now is here.
When we drink we won't lean,
We're perked up with caffeine.
Now we'll stay up all night, drinking ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
We all need clothes when we relax.
Not tailormade. Just off the racks.
To meet this demand,
The old Haggar brand.
Gave us casual pants they called ________.
•Answer 3
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