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August 13, 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: "Thinking as a voyager and explorer, this mission is going nowhere: It is yet another grocery-delivery trip."
That's an astronomer named Henry Joy McCracken saying that the success of something this week really wasn't much of a success at all. What?
Hint: To be fair, it was a 200,000-mile grocery delivery.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "He was catnip to women and that was a role he relished most of his life."
That's ABC's Ted Koppel eulogizing a long-time colleague and his effect on women. Who was this tall handsome hunk o' catnip?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "I stood naked in front of my full-length mirrors for a long time yesterday. What did I see? My breasts are beginning to sag a bit. My waist isn't bad. My [behind] is what it should be, the best there is."
That was but one excerpt from newly published transcripts of tapes, recorded by a famous woman just a few weeks before her death, in 1962. Who could look in the mirror naked and think her assets were still the best?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
The tax break is right for us, eh?
Who cares on which team we both play?
We both pay for ex-wives
For the rest of our lives,
So we'll tie the knot, though we're not ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I'm glad science has time to devote,
To a Stepfordesque tool of some note.
Push the buttons and learn
How to make your wife turn.
Our women are steered by ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
In Bavaria chests are a must,
A viewless beer garners disgust.
Though the sun is infernal,
Maids must wear the dirndl.
We won't stand for a covered up ________.
•Answer 3
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