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Jan. 8, 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: "Nothing would make me happier than to see you, except to see you naked with a winning lottery ticket in one hand and a can of whipped cream in the other."
That remarkable image was from a post card sent to President Clinton by a particular admirer... who?
Hint: Who else?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Politics is my hobby. Smut... is my vocation."
That's someone who, despite the unsavory nature of his business, played an important role in both advancing the freedom of speech, and in ending some politician’s careers... who?
Hint: And he did it all from a wheelchair.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "She was a great American whose contributions to the nation were too numerous to count."
That was California State Assemblyman Kevin Shelly, as he adjourned the California State legislature in 2001 to mourn the passing of Dolores Landingham, a Great American. What was unusual about Mrs. Landingham?
Hint: Cause of death: the spring rating sweeps.
• Answer 3
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