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April 23, 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 Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
JEAN: "God's Rottweiler... Cardinal NO... Der Panzer Cardinal... Papa Ratzi..."
Those were just some of the nicknames for a prominent member of the clergy. He got yet another name this week. What?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
JEAN: "He proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel, throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and genuinely behaving like a madman."
That description of someone's behavior 10 years ago put into question a man's nomination to a diplomatic post. Who's been accused of chasing someone through hotels?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
JEAN: "It makes it look like all you need to do to be healthy in America is be gay and exercise."
That's food consultant Clark Wolfe talking about a new instructional diagram from the U.S. government that resembles the gay rainbow flag topped by a jogger. What?
Hint: The old one didn't keep us from getting fat, why should this one?
• Answer 3
Who's JEAN This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
JEAN: "When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed. So I feel really good."
That's a man who escaped allegations of ethics violations by speaking at the National Rifle Association's convention last weekend. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
JEAN: "There's just something hard to stomach about Mickey, Goofy and Donald Duck tinkering with a sports tradition."
That was Mike Fowler, of Arizona State University, just one of many sports writers and fans who was upset with an announcement that the Disney company will be moving what famous staple of broadcast TV over to cable.
Hint: Are you ready to pay 30 bucks a month for basic cable?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
JEAN: "At any given moment, there are about 100 million stains forming on walls and on shower floors and in refrigerators. Occasionally you'll get one that looks like (her); just as often, you'll get one that looks like Cedric the Entertainer."
That's the Chicago Sun Times looking at a water stain beneath a local underpass, a stain that thousands of people in the Windy City are convinced is... who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Come on, give me a clean buffet plate.
The Grim Reaper won't care how I ate.
Statistics can lie,
Food won't cause how I die.
Death is not closely linked to my ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
When my caution in to the wind flies.
I make sure it's before female eyes.
My actions are risky,
And I hope she gets frisky,
But I'm only impressing the ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The party is sudsy, I gather.
But we'll stay in our dorm, if you'd rather.
For attending the bash,
Might just lead to a rash.
Because some are allergic to ________.
•Answer 3
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