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April 9, 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: "Bobbleheads... A 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle... A wall clock with the hands of the clock circling his face... Soaps-on-a-rope with miter and without."
Those are just some of the things mourners could buy this week, in order to commemorate whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "...$300,000 to improve public transport at Disneyland in California... $25,000 to fund the study of Mexican mariachi music in Nevada schools... $70,000 for the Paper Industry Hall of Fame in Wisconsin."
Those were among the winners in an annual award for the most egregious examples of... what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed... against thy Divine Majesty."
That's how a couple will start off their lifetime of wedded bliss this weekend, by admitting their previous wickedness. Who?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I was just answering the call of nature. Guess I won't wander off anymore."
That's a 67-year-old man named Dave Gessner, a bit embarrassed about getting, "caught" by the Minutemen near the Arizona-Mexico border. These Minutemen are looking for whom?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Finally, I wonder if other men and women ask their doctors right away -- OK, Doc, when does the hair go?"
That's how someone told his viewers this week that he had lung-cancer. Who first wanted to know if he'd need a piece to go back on the air?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I don't want any damn broken-down prince who is head of a pinhead country that nobody knows anything about to marry my daughter."
That was Jack Kelly, father of movie star Grace Kelly, reacting to the news, back in 1956, that his daughter had gotten engaged. Her husband died this week at the age of 81. Who was it?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Fold-out paper deals have many gaps.
They don't help when I scout local traps.
But aerial shots,
Would help me a lot.
So I search Google's satellite ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
She's like Bullwinkle's pal. But a girl.
She sent Canada's courts all awhirl.
See, rodents were banned,
Monkeypox scared this land.
But they won't be deporting my ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
These rats have a time and a half.
When they're tickled by highly trained staff.
They don't snort or guffaw,
But they chirp till they're raw.
'Cause rats really know how to ________.
•Answer 3
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