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Feb. 19, 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: "The president is like a pit bull and he's got a pair of trousers in his mouth and he's not going to let go."
That was Sen. Rick Santorum, admiringly describing the president's tactics, when it comes to what issue?
Hint: These trousers are light blue sansabelts and go all the way up to the nipples.
Hint: To extend the metaphor, the pair of trousers is being worn by a senior citizen, who created the trousers by sending in thread every year until the age of 65.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The distressing thing is, my heroes are morons. And that's kind of a reflection on me."
That was a man named Vaughn Derderian, of Detroit, talking about how his heroes have done him wrong. But he won't have to watch those idols play, because whose entire season was finally canceled this week?
Hint: These guys are on thin ice and they fell through.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "What straight black man sits there and watches it? Show me one!"
That's comedian Chris Rock saying, essentially, that he himself would never watch the big awards show he's about to host. What show?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Frank Lautenberg's brow's in a knot.
"You'd think that the votes have been bought.
My eightyplus looks,
Have just made record books.
It seems that I really am ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
For unwanted intruders I trawl.
"Let's roll!" is my apropos call.
When I make my rounds,
I note sights and sounds.
No thief will get by this smart ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
St. Bernard holds two threes and a joker
It's the nightmare of any art broker
In the price they would fetch,
Folks were off by a stretch.
We cashed in on those "Dogs Playing ________."
•Answer 3
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