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Dec. 4, 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: "Obviously, I think there's been some political belittling of duct tape. But... duct tape and a secure room and a couple of gallons of water... is precisely what you might have to do in the event something occurs."
That was somebody doing his best, in February of 2003, to help protect Americans from terrorist attacks. He resigned this week. Who will no longer use his position in the Cabinet to preach the message of duct tape?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "When we tried (the pens), the ink disappeared after four or five minutes. Honestly! We thought that was funny."
That's someone talking about the pen he was given to mark his ballot in a disputed national election. Where?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only
four months a year."
That question proved to be the undoing of a certain game show
contestant this week. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "He's not welcome, eh!""
That's what was on a sign not really welcoming someone to Canada this week, who?
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It mostly comes when I get tired or lazy with it. But, yes, I had a very good speech therapist in Omaha."
That was someone discussing his struggle with pronouncing the letter "L." This guy won't need to work on his "L"s anymore now that he's retired from the news anchoring biz. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "Why with a universe of names at your disposal, make your son an inevitable classroom laughingstock, doomed -- to a lifetime of helping others spell Phinnaeus -- a name almost impossible to spell correctly?"
That's Laura Berman of The Detroit News wondering why, oh why, did a big movie star named her newborn twins Phinnaeus and Hazel. Who?
Hint: She's a pretty woman with stretch marks.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
At bright Christmas lights I do flinch.
To get them turned off was no cinch.
A close vote in this town,
Helped me shut their cheer down.
Now the folks here all call me the ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
They say that our film has a stench.
But it's not like it stars Judy Dench.
We think Audrey Tatou,
Is a tres bien ingénue.
But the festival says we're not ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
My phone's keypad should have stayed locked.
Now severral ex-lovers I've shocked.
See, when I get drunk,
I say crazy junk.
So next time I'll have numbers ________.
•Answer 3
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