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April 30, 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: "It's a sign of respect and affection -- nothing sexual whatsoever."
That's a spokesman for Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah talking about published pictures this week of the Prince doing what with President George Bush?
Hint: It's not exactly like getting to first base -- more like getting into the on-deck circle.
Hint: It's what all couples do during private walks outside.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Hey, man, we had an election. Did they miss it? Their man lost, Bush won."
That's Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi explaining why he thinks Democrats need to just get over it, in regard to the big showdown in the Senate, over what?
Hint: It's like: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and has a Hissy Fit.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that -- in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me -- I started to feel quite dizzy. I told the Lord with deep conviction, 'Don't do this to me.'"
That's not the reaction you'd expect from a man said as he was selected for a new job last week. The Lord, perhaps feeling mischievous, went ahead and did it to... whom?
Hint: Listening to the Lord is actually his job description.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I can't believe I called a hit man, a hit man to his face."
That was a night clerk at a Super 8 Motel near Chicago. He'd just discovered that a man he'd been joking with for the past two months was one of 14 men federal agents were arresting for being part of what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm sorry, but I like my chili."
That's a Wendy's fast food customer in San Jose showing his loyalty to the chain's chili -- unlike other customers. Wendy's reported sagging sales and lower profits this week all because a woman who claimed to find what in a bowl of chili?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "840 passengers at the check-in desk, 840 passengers waiting at the baggage carousel, 840 passengers queuing at immigration. I can't wait."
That's a BBC listener commenting on something that hit the skies this week for the first time. What?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Our bells rather diff'rently chime,
'Cause some call daylight savings a crime.
Indiana's bells toll
For the state as a whole,
Once we've ironed our wrinkle in ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
We wish this new trend could be slowed.
We don't whimper, but, "Bang!" we explode.
Our green, warty skin,
You don't want to be in.
Nighttime's death for the North German ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
At customs, the man's face stayed stony.
"Your dogs smell a trail that is phony."
But 800 pounds,
Of cured lunch meat were found.
His suitcase was full of ________.
•Answer 3
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