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Jan. 29, 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 guest host Brian Unger.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "I wanted to vote even if there is no chance, like the Nader ticket."
That's a voter who is determined to cast a ballot this weekend, even if it's as meaningless as a vote for Ralph Nader. This guy is voting for leaders, where?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The Maytag repairman's doing more work than we are right now."
That's a spokesperson for Boston's Logan International Airport, where no one was getting anything done this week because of what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "As someone that watched him for decades and loved his show, I ask in his honor, 'How-dead-is-he?'"
That's someone posting on Cnet.com paying tribute to whom?
Hint: Unlike many of his competitors and successors, he rarely died in front of the camera.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Her modesty was still intact during yesterday's ceremony."
That's The Washington Post reporting on a send-off bash in a government building, where blue drapes still covered the topless Spirit of Justice statue. Who bid a fond farewell to Washington and to the statue he rescued from years of enforced nudity?
Hint: He broke out an acoustic version of "Let the Eagle Soar" at the after-party.
Hint: He's one of the most famous politicians to lose an election to a deceased man.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "Some wags dubbed it the 'Rose Mary Stretch.'"
That, according to her obituary, is how people described a move by Rose Mary Woods as she inadvertently struck an erase key with her hand, as her foot pedal kept operating a recording tape, all while she stretched to answer the phone. She said that this maneuver created the famous gap in what tapes?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "So you know what I said? 'Well, it's not going to be my favorite thing no more!'"
That was a certain television personality's response to a publisher who declined an invitation to appear in her "favorite things" show. Whose?
Hint: She's a showbiz heavyweight. But she's thin right now.
Hint: Some of her favorite things include; Dr. Phil, book clubs and her longtime steady Steadman Graham.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
At Mt. Everest
Sir Hillary's blinking.
He says, "Tenzing, you know what I'm thinking?
Global warming is bleak,
For that ice on the peak.
Let's climb quick, for the mountain is ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
My castle estate is quite daunting.
That's why slammed doors and dragged chains sound taunting.
Since I'm a milquetoast,
The police caught my ghost.
And she's been arrested for ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Some of Mexico's suits aren't Versaces.
Singers wear them where old folks play boccies.
In the Plaza's blue sky,
You will hear, "Ay, ay, aaaay!
We are crowded with fake ________."
•Answer 3
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