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June 4, 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: "Wasn't he the guy who ratted out Nixon?"
Little Josh Hickey was talking about the old man who lives next to him -- an old man who turned out to be whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "No doubt Felt realized his identity would still be partially concealed behind (the magazine's) 87 pages of Donna Karan ads."
That was Jon Stewart commenting on where the story was broken. What magazine finally revealed the mystery?
Hint: He may be the magazine's biggest scoop ever, but the only way he was getting on the cover was if he was 23, a movie star, and hot as a firecracker.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I don't see why I ever would (tell). What would it advance?"
Okay, I'll tell. That's Carly Simon saying she'll never reveal the other big secret from the Watergate era -- the identity of the man who was -- what?
Hint: I bet he thought that song was about him.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "We have higher standards in Poland. Much of the work done here would not be considered up-to-standard there."
That's a Polish plumber sniffing at work in western Europe. Fear of an invasion of "Polish plumbers" was one reason that French voters decided to vote against what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "I'm just racing. It sounds so goober, but I don't know."
That's a woman named Danica Patrick saying that she really wasn't trying to prove anything when she became the most successful female ever in what big race?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "He calls me Princess and I call him Babaluna."
That's someone talking about her boyfriend and their little nicknames for each other. This week, despite having the same strange first name, she announced this week her intention to marry Babaluna. Who is this princess?
Hint: Potential wedding gifts: video equipment, in case the couple wants to post their wedding night on the Web. Or a bridesmaid to fill in for her estranged best friend Nicole Ritchie.
• Answer 6
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