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July 23, 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: "He's good in every way, except he's not a woman."
That was Justice Sandra O'Connor, giving some qualified praise... to whom?
Hint: It means that she just can't pass down the black robes.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "A prime-time announcement that bamboozles the press, draws a bigger television audience, and knocks [him] off the front page... Not a bad night's work."
That's Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post congratulating the president for using his Supreme Court nomination to knock who off the front pages?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "Captain! The engines canna take nae more!"
That was the iconic complaint of a character, played by an actor who died this week at the age of 85. Who was the actor?
• Answer 3
Panel Round
Question 1
President Bush chose Judge Roberts after a series of personal interviews with each of the potential nominees. According to one of the judges interviewed, the president seemed most concerned about the judge's feeling toward what?
Hint: It's not about his feelings about the law... it's about feeling the burn.
• Answer 1
Question 2
Put aside the Supreme Court for a moment, forget about Karl Rove... the real political firestorm this week blew up around a visit by the Northwestern University women's lacrosse team to the White House. During the visit, some members of the team, for reasons of their own, did what?
Hint: Well, it was really hot.
• Answer 2
Question 3
Members of the Professional Association of Teachers in England are meeting next week to debate a new proposal, a proposal to ban what word from classrooms?
F will from now on stand for, "For goodness sake, he's trying hard!"
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Laser etching may not be much quicker,
But it leaves fruit unblemished and slicker.
With this new fruit tattoo,
There will be no more glue,
No more peeling that pesky old ________
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
See my bedroom door's "strangers beware" sign?
Mum says, "How are you doing in there?"...Fine.
See, I've just leased a jet
Though the flight's not booked yet.
I'm a teenager with my own ________
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
If this guy hadn't been, we'd be thinner.
His segmented tray's the key sinner.
Yes, Swanson's big earner
Took meals off the burners.
We flip channels and eat ________
•Answer 3
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