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August 27, 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: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war."
That's someone's opinion on how to deal with the anti-American leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Who, this week, said the United States should get into the assassination business?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It's kind of like if Woodstock was really organized."
With the exception of the occasional presidential motorcade and absence of old man Yasgur. What seems, to at least one man, like a better-organized version of Woodstock?
Hint: Three days of peace and music has turned into 30 days of dust and occasional gunshots from neighbors.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "Sure, I like the idea of my name becoming a generic term for the synthesizer. But I don't like the fact that cruddy records are being put out with my name attached."
That's a man in 1969, telling The New York Times that it was cool to use his name for the musical instrument he created, but please, make some decent music. That man died this week. Who?
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1
Among our favorite whackjob dictators is the president-for-life of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov (pronounced: sap-AR-moor-at ni-YAZ-obv). Well, this week he struck a blow for live performance when he outlawed what?
Hint: Ashlee Simpson and Milli Vanilli cancelled their upcoming gigs there.
• Answer 1
Question 2
An article in Nature Neuroscience published this week reports that monkeys really like to... what?
Hint: One monkey was heard to exclaim "C'mon, baby needs a new pair of bananas."
• Answer 2
Question 3
There's a controversy raging around the world this summer, particularly in Germany, where there have been arguments, legal wrangling, and this week an assault over people stealing... what?
• Answer 3
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