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Feb. 5, 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: "You have to be asking yourself: What if it turns out that Bush was right, and we were wrong?"
That's Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown, not usually one to give President Bush any credit at all. What event last weekend was praised even by Mr. Bush's critics?
Hint: It was as if millions of people gave President Bush a one-fingered salute.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I was surprised. I extended my hand and he was good enough to give me a manly embrace."
That's Sen. Joe Lieberman talking about the hug, and perhaps kiss, he got on Wednesday night from whom?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "He'll keep his clothes on."
That was a man named Charles Copin, talking about, of all people, Sir Paul McCartney. We can rest assured that the ex-Beatle will not disrobe, while performing at what event?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "I think it's a scream."
That's former Republican Party chief Rich Bond making a little joke when asked what he thought of the man who, apparently, will be leading the Democratic Party. Who?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "The world will experience a paradox the likes of which it has never seen before: People have a ravenous appetite for celebrity doings, but this may make them throw up."
That was commentary by Michael Ventre on MSNBC on what is being dubbed "the trial of the century." What trial is likely to make Americans say: "No more."
Hint: He promises, as soon as he's acquitted, to start a search for the real child molesters!
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "She didn't look any paler than other people in western New York."
That was Vincent Tracy, manager of something called The Saturn Club of Buffalo, N.Y. He was talking about his club's luncheon speaker, who suddenly fainted on the podium. Who didn't look that bad, really, before she keeled over?
Hint: The late night comics joked about her husband immediately administering mouth to mouth to any other woman he could find.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
We barbers in Pyongyang take care.
To let scalps have a free flow of air,
See, we're not consuming,
The West's frightful grooming.
The state has a ban on long ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Johnny Damon thinks lawyers are crooks:
"My contract demands longhaired looks.
I guess writing talents,
Don't weigh in the balance.
They think that short hair won't sell ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
When a flaky scalp gives my hair trauma.
New shampoo puts an end to that drama.
Peruvian ruminants,
Give my hair luminance.
My hair shines thanks to blood from a ________."
•Answer 3
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