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Jan. 15, 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: "For us, it's the equivalent of the presidential election. Literally, our entire staff was called into work over the weekend."
That was a journalist commenting on the enormous mobilization of personnel and resources dedicated to covering a catastrophic event in Los Angeles. What?
Hint: When we say "Los Angeles," we really mean Hollywood.
Hint: The aftermath will involve who gets all that Friends syndication money.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "(He's) a straight shooter and one of the two or three smartest people I have ever met. (Nevermind that he looks frighteningly like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons.)"
That was one blogger's description of a man named Michael Chertoff, who this week was nominated to an important post. What?
Hint: Even Mr. Burns never came up with something as confusing as the terror alert color chart.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I have high cholesterol. (But) when I run out the door in the morning, the first thing I grab is a pork chop wrapped in a tortilla because it's fast."
That's a Phoenix woman explaining to The Arizona Republic why she may have a hard time with something that the government announced this week. What?
Hint: The government told us something that we really already knew.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Why stir up a political hornet's nest... when there is no urgency? When does [it] go belly up? 2042. I will be dead by then."
That was one of our courageous, forward-looking representatives, Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT), saying he won't support the president's plan to privatize... what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Imagine melted Godiva bars covered with hot fudge and Hershey's syrup. Or my old trick of putting a pint of Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter in the microwave and then chugging it straight."
That's Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle describing the effect of "Chantico," the latest concoction offered by what company?
Hint: If it came in a Venti, your heart would seize instantly.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "He is certainly not a Nazi, just a naughty boy."
That's an Australian newspaper with their take on someone's decision to wear Third Reich regalia to a fancy dress party. Who?
Hint: He's just mad because he looks more like his dad than his mother.
Hint: The picture of this was featured on London's Sun newspaper.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Randy Moss says, "So, I'm a buffoon.
You don't need to avert eyes or swoon.
See, I did not bare
My swift derriere.
I only pretended to ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Listerine's mouthcleaning sauce,
Has suffered a biting court loss.
To remove dental dross,
Silken threads are the boss.
And mouthwash will not replace ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The baking club girls had a front man.
David Dalquist helped out with a blunt plan.
He said, "Goodness sakes,
You need forms for those cakes."
And he made the aluminum ________.
•Answer 3
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