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Dec. 11, 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: "Now settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, and it's early in the morning. I'm just gathering my thoughts here."
That was somebody getting some unexpectedly sharp questioning from troops in Kuwait this week. Who was the old man who had trouble getting his thoughts in order?
Hint: He could've used some body armor himself before taking questions.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "By the agreement between Major League Baseball and the Players Union, first offense is punishable by the player's choice of a trip to Disneyland, designer luggage, or a boxed set of Oingo Boingo. A player can be suspended only if takes so many (OF THEM) that he explodes in the batter's box."
That's MSNBC's Scott Ostler ridiculing Major League Baseball's policy for players caught using... what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "(They) don't have nostrils, so some people thought they didn't have a sense of smell."
That's a researcher telling the world about one of the amazing things we've discovered about an animal, now that we've mapped its genome. What is the latest animal to have all its genetic information deciphered?
Hint: We have yet to discover a gene, though, that causes road-crossing.
• Answer 3
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