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June 18, 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 Tom This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
TOM: "Nov. 15th, 1929... Martin Luther King is born. Feb. 11, 1990... Nelson Mandela is freed. June 13, 2005... Remember THIS date, for it is a part of HIStory."
That, from a certain person's Web site, putting in historical context a court decision in his favor. Who will be celebrating June 13 as his own personal Day of Liberation?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
TOM: "Deep Throat now has an English accent."
That's Jefferson Morley of The Washington Post. He was talking about the anonymous British source who leaked a document that's at the center of a growing political storm -- a document known as what?
Hint: It's named for the prime minister's residence.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
TOM: "First they came for SpongeBob... Then lesbian-loving cartoon bunny Buster... Now Big Bird."
That was blogger Josh Marshall, shaking his head at a surprising attempt by Congress to completely eliminate funding for what?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Japanese garment vendors raise cries
"What if Father's Day comes, no one buys?"
So what if it's hot
Leave that slick Windsor knot
Don't fight heat by removing your ________
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
In Sveden, some people are sverring
"That's not fish, you must surely be erring
You must be demented
To eat them fermented
Close down your museum of ________ "
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Whether Chavez is sleeping or walking
His mouth never stops. It's just shocking
And what's worse, in our eyes
Is it's all televised
That the president never stops ________
•Answer 3
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