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Feb. 12, 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 not something we've done with a meat axe."
That was Dick Cheney assuring us his -- excuse me, the president's -- administration, did NOT prepare what important document with a meat axe?
Hint: If they were swinging an axe, they somehow managed to miss the Defense Department.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "[And] when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you?"
That was President Bush, making things perfectly clear when it comes to his position on possible changes to what important program?
Hint: It's hard to scare seniors when they aren't sure what you are talking about.
• Answer 2
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Our simian name should be funky.
And taxonomy tends to be clunky.
So we're calling our species,
Not Rhesus but Reeses.
We sold off the name of our ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Folks may have thought, "Castro's joking.
So what if some Yankees start choking."
But now Cuban bars,
Do not welcome cigars.
In Havana there's no public ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Of their source, Bob and Carl not a peep wrote.
His name was not leaked in some cheap quote.
But he's gravely ill,
So his name they'll soon spill.
And we will find out who was ________.
•Answer 3
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