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Nov. 20, 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: "He wants to be able to tinker under the hood and go to hardware stores and eat rotisserie chicken, just like he used to."
That was a man named Kenneth Duberstein talking about a good friend of his, who's looking forward to private life. What prominent man is giving up diplomatic banquets for the pleasures of rotisserie chicken?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I was telling my husb... as I was telling President Bush."
Who made the above statement while receiving another benefit this week from her very close relationship to President Bush?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "You and your little game. I've got a game we can play."
That was a line from a controversial sketch that appeared on TV Monday night. What show suddenly had to deal with accusations of indecency?
Hint: Are you ready for some FCC fines?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I don't see people saying, 'Let's not go to Fort Lauderdale. Let's go to Little Rock instead.' It's not going to happen."
That's a resident of Little Rock expressing some skepticism about the boost to tourism his town might get from what new attraction?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "The negative view is that it's akin to tying two drunks together and hoping that they'll be able to walk a straight line."
That's a retail analyst providing his opinion of a big merger this week. What two "drunks" of retail are trying to keep each other from falling down?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I would like all bidders to know that this item is not intended for consumption. It is intended for collectable purposes only."
That was from an eBay listing this week that got a lot of attention. The listing was by a Florida woman selling a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that has what special feature?
Hint: Before you eat the sandwich, you must say, "Hail sandwich full of cheese." Otherwise you'll turn into a pillar of salt.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Leaked uranium shows off our fumbled greed,
But a desert plant may do a humble deed.
It keeps leakage down,
As it blows through ghost towns.
Three cheers for New Mexico's ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
The thieves must have been on the lam.
For they threw their sacks right where I swam.
And you know that this beaver's,
An intricate weaver.
So I stuffed all the cash in my ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
As the hurricane starts to draw near,
I think I will drown all my fear.
I'll sit out the gale,
With some stout or pale ale.
Yeah, I'd better stock up on some ________.
•Answer 3
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