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Jan. 22, 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: "Man, I look old."
That's what someone who was the center of attention said as he looked at a picture of himself. Who begins this year looking a lot older than he did four years ago?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "[She] says there are no plans to invade North Korea, which can only mean one thing... they don't have any oil."
That's how the host of CBS's Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson, reported someone's confirmation hearings this week. Whose?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "We plan to have a gym area for our passengers to stretch and workout. We're going to introduce a beauty parlor, we plan to have a casino."
That's a business analyst named Henry Harteveldt pooh-poohing the luxury ideas being bandied about for what?
Hint: You're still gonna get more peanuts.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "You keep living, but it gets old after a while."
That's the town clerk of Embarrass, Minn., where residents suffered the worst of something that hit much of the country this week. What?
Hint: It's Minnesota...
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It made a safe 'splat-down' onto a material likened to 'crème brule.'"
That's a scientist describing a landing that took place last weekend. What apparently has a surface the consistency of crème brule?
Hint: Order that crème brule via takeout, and you'll be waiting for it for years.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I take it very seriously. I've always said it's the greatest institution in the world when you get it right."
That's a man taking the institution of marriage very seriously as he heads into his third wedding, this time to a supermodel approximately half his age. Who?
Hint: We know this is a cheap hint, but we expect to hear within a few months: "You're divorced!"
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
My jokes are on fire, like arson.
That's why I'm the true late-night parson."
Thus spoke David Letterman,
"Here's help from a veteran.
Some lines from my friend, Johnny ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
When booze in bars no longer flows,
It appears that the chaps come to blows.
To stop drunken brawls,
We'll end all last calls,
And make sure that the pubs never ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
About Lincoln opinions do stray.
Men often shared beds in his day.
To conclusions we've leapt.
What if they just slept?
Does that still mean Old Abe was ________.
•Answer 3
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