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Oct. 23, 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: "In hindsight, perhaps it was a mistake for them to raise a "Mission Accomplished" banner above their dugout after Game 3."
That was sports writer Jim Caple talking about the historic collapse of what team?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "(They're) at high risk becasue they shake hands with a lot of people."
That was an official spokesman, explaining why what group of people jumped ahead in line and received flu shots, ahead of everybody else?
Hint: It's not ultimately to protect them. It's ultimately to protect lobbyists and rich donors.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "There she isn't"
That was the headline on an Associated Press story, noting that what venerable event might no longer be seen on TV?
Hint: It's as dead as Burt Parks!
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job--I mean, since she's been grown up."
That was someone setting off yet another brush fire along the campaign trail with some comments... who keeps lighting verbal matches?
Hint: She has a real job: counting money and staring lovingly at her husband.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "There was no sex for 14 days. Everything comes with side effects."
That was someone admitting this week that his appearance at the Republican National Convention had consequences. Who wasn't allowed to grope his own wife?
Hint: What's amazing is that she apparently continued to sleep with him after the release of Kindergarten Cop.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of US Weekly be your entertainment. Good luck girls!"
That was a pop singer this week announcing that she's going to take time off to start a family...who?
Hint: Look for lots of dumb little babies with cute navels.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
It's the goy-im I had to inveigle.
So the "sell by" date I would finagle.
It's the clear plastic wrap
That put me on the map.
Folks think Lender when they want a ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Y'all know what is startin' to vex us?
It's them stickers slapped on to a Lexus.
Now y'all got to stop.
That is our bumper crop.
So we're trademarking "Don't Mess With ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Space vacuum emits a strange gust, honey.
Big motes swirl around and encrust funny.
The scientist said,
"It's like under your bed."
New planets get formed like a ________.
•Answer 3
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