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July 2, 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 Scott Simon This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
SCOTT: "His old message was that while Iraq is hard work, we must persevere. His new message is that while Iraq is hard work, we must persevere."
That was Dick Coleman of The Philadelphia Inquirer, giving his take on a big speech made this week by... who?
Hint: For the most part, the speech was greeted by an eerie silence.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
SCOTT: "He's the guy. There's no question about it. You could make him a blonde and shave his whiskers, put him in a zoot suit... and I'd still spot him."
That Chuck Scott, a former hostage in Iran, who says he recently recognized one of his former captors. Who is it?
Hint: The man in question was a student at the time.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
SCOTT: "Matt, Matt, Matt, you're so glib... but if you'd researched psychiatry like I have, you would know. I'm NUTS!"
OK, that's not exactly what the person in the news said. But it's pretty close, and it comes from an e-mail sent to Today show host Matt Lauer by what major star?
Hint: He wasn't wearing a "Free Katie" T-shirt at the time.
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1
In a quiet decision this week, new Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez reversed a policy of his predecessor, John Ashcroft. What has been returned to the halls of Justice?
Hint: It's curtains for the curtains. But Mo Rocca says there's now a two-drink minimum in the lobby.
• Answer 1
Question 2
This week Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL's New England Patriots, visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. During their chat, Kraft showed him his enormous, diamond-encrusted championship ring. At which point, Putin did what?
Hint: What we have here is a failure to communicate.
• Answer 2
Question 3
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled that seizing private property to pave the way for private development also falls under the realm of eminent domain law. One entrepreneur immediately applied to the government of a New Hampshire town, asking them to seize a piece of property belonging to whom?
• Answer 3
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