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Dec. 18, 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: "Too bad... he seems to have been good at keeping secrets and multitasking."
That was Charlie Meyerson, of The Chicago Tribune getting catty about a guy whose secrets, we've learned, include extramarital activities, questionable finances, and a nanny problem. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Slither slither slither slither went the tongue.. . But the hand... that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the oto-rhino-laryngo-logical caverns..."
That, from author Tom Wolfe, was the winner of this year's prestigious literary award... an award for the worst writing about what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Can you imagine sitting next to a woman who is screaming about her ulcer to her aunt Molly in Detroit for four hours?"
That was someone named Barbara Pachter who calls herself a corporate etiquette trainer. She was voicing a sentiment we heard a lot this week. It was in reaction to an announcement by the U.S. government they may soon allow what on airplanes?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "You can't take it to the racetrack and hope to really increase the returns. It's not there for the lottery."
That's President Bush putting some limits on the options citizens will have... if Mr. Bush gets his way and passes his plan to reform what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "I can tell you one thing, they're really the most rubbishy poems on Earth. Even I could write poems in English better than he could in Arabic."
That's one man's opinion of the poetry of a prisoner who, this week, marked a year since he was captured. Who's spending time behind bars writing, "rubbishy" poems?
Hint: The Poem's called, "Spider Hole, My Spider Hole..."
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I think there's no question that the fans are going to lose interest because the game that's not being played right now wasn't that exciting to begin with."
That was a man named Brett Hull, who is feeling pretty frustrated because first, he and his colleagues are on strike, and second nobody seems to care. What work stoppage is generating exactly no outrage?
Hint: It's all right, because the NBA has adopted the fighting aspect of it.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
As New Yorkers take Central Park walks.
We see Ms. Tyler Moore head peace talks.
She had some choice words,
For evictors of birds.
And regained a home for two ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Keep abreast of our product's slight flaw.
Certain cup sizes are the last straw.
Too much strain on the straps,
Yields embarrassing snaps.
We're recalling your new Wonder ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Archaeologists dug up some clues.
Bronze bottles and proto-corkscrews.
Seems that old China knew,
Of a fermented brew.
We've got proof of the world's oldest ________.
•Answer 3
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