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April 2, 2005
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: "Nuclear weapons: Wrong.
Biological weapons: Wrong.
Chemical weapons: Wrong.
WMD-armed drones: Wrong.
Saddam's intentions: Wrong."
That's The Boston Globe summarizing all that a presidential panel found to be dead wrong in what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I'd still be back in Detroit. There never would have been a Motown, and I would have been at Ford's factory."
That's Lamont Dozier, the man who wrote and produced all the hits of Diana Ross and The Supremes, who went to the Supreme Court this week to urge the justices to stop... what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
That immortal line was mentioned high up in all the obituaries this week of a famous lawyer who died this week at the age of 67?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "If you've seen a chicken in the barnyard get a peck on his head so a little blood is showing, then the other chickens all rush in and peck him to death, that is the danger for (him) right now."
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Kids, eh? You bring them into the world, fork out on a swanky school and then they go and ruin your reputation as head of the United Nations."
That's Germany's Der Spiegel talking about a father who, it was determined this week, should have been watching his son a little more closely. Who?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken."
That's the famous tag line of the world's most famous chicken processor. He died this week at age 84. Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
I did not git no more astuter.
And I'm still no master disputer.
It sits on my desktop,
While scores on my tests drop.
My skills ain't helped by no ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
A perfect game this hole can mar.
Who cares if the drive went real far?
On hole 17,
My score was obscene.
I came in 12 strokes over ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Ashton's name might get stuck in your gullet.
But his hair's such that no shears could dull it.
It's business in front,
But the back he won't stunt.
Does this mark the return of the ________.
•Answer 3
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