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Nov. 13, 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: "Give me a state, and I'll wear a tux and a bow tie."
That was someone explaining his lifelong choice of informal dress. He died this week without ever getting a state or a tux.
Hint: Instead of a tux, he favored combat fatigues, a traditional Arab headdress, and a four-to-five day growth of beard.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."
That surprising declaration came from the resignation letter of what Cabinet official?
Hint: His other achievements, in addition to securing the safety of all Americans, include hiding a topless government statue behind curtains.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "An edited version of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America... Gene Hackman starring in Hoosiers... and the TV movie Return to Mayberry.
Those are a few of the programs that some ABC stations aired on Veterans Day because they were afraid to air what?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I originally called her a congenital liar and tried to get out of it by (claiming) I said she's a congenial lawyer. But she certainly is developing as a good senator and will be a good candidate."
That was William Safire, pushing someone as a good candidate in 2008. Who was he referring to?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "I will just say that all of the reporting -- and none of it was evil -- but the reporting we all saw kind of created an expectation that peace is going to break out very, very quickly.'"
That's retired Gen. Tommy Franks revealing that it's the media's fault that everything seems to be going so poorly where?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "There's something eerie and dead about these children's eyes, making them resemble those evil, stoic kids of the 1960 horror flick Village of the Damned."
That was David Germain of the San Francisco Examiner, reviewing a much anticipated, but creepy Christmas movie that comes out this weekend. What is the movie?
• Answer 6
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