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Nov. 6, 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: "We have finally come to the end of the bitter, hateful partisan viciousness that has consumed us for far too long, and we can now look forward, as a nation, to beginning a new era of bitter hateful partisan viciousness."
That was humorist Dave Barry, talking about what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It turned out to be Lucy teeing up the football and asking Charlie Brown to kick it."
That was Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post, discussing one peculiar aspect of this year's election... something that gave lot of Kerry supporters false hopes early on Tuesday. What?
Hint: Well, they warned us they would be unreliable.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek."
and...
"We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."
and...
"We don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon."
Those were a sampling of the folksy sayings offered up by what news anchor on election night?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Let me tell you, if they're hard-working, honest people, there's a process, and let them apply."
That's a government official from Canada offering some serious advice to disaffected Democrats who are looking to do what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Get it done right away and you can spend the rest of the day in Victoria as a tourist... going to high tea, the Butchart Gardens, or the Royal BC Museum"
That was Daryll Brian, executive vice president of a high speed ferry service based in Seattle. Mr. Brian's company is part of a small but growing trend in the Northwest travel industry... vacation packages to Canada that include a what?
Hint: The company is meeting a demand for something there is a shortage of in the United States.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "What part of small and cute and pink and kitty don't you get, fella?"
That, according to Orange County Register reporter Peter Larsen, is the response he gets when he asks little girls to explain the appeal of a Japanese icon celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. What are we talking about?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Pricey pesticides might make me broke.
But I've heard that soft drinks make bugs croak.
The secret ingredient is
Rather expedient.
I'm spraying my cotton with ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
My wife's wish list ignores sense of thrift.
So I hope elves can nip, tuck and lift.
Some silicone flocking,
Is stuffing her stocking.
Plastic surgery is my Christmas ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
We hope "Purple Haze" won't offend hicks.
Round a burning guitar we'll do 10 kicks.
For distortion and wah-wah,
Our dancers are ga-ga.
The ballet does the music of ________.
•Answer 3
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