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June 25, 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 Robert This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
ROBERT: "You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard, nobody'd go to Houston."
That was House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, making the case this week that really, when you get right down to it, things are no worse in Texas's largest city than they are... where?
Hint: Well, it is true, both places have a lot of Americans walking around with guns.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
ROBERT: "I wish things were like when Ronald Reagan was still president."
That was a former head of state this week getting nostalgic for the good old days. Who was it?
Hint: He liked Reagan, he said, because Reagan sold him tanks and planes.
Hint 2: The current guy holding Reagan's old job treated him somewhat differently.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
ROBERT: "Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn't have to suffer through another word."
That was New York Post conservative columnist John Podhoretz, in a somewhat surprisingly negative review of a new book that says nasty things... about whom?
Hint: What's surprising is that most conservatives HATE this person.
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1
As John Bolton keeps trying to get a new job as U.N. ambassador, the Washington Post took a look at his performance in his old gig, as under secretary of state for arms control. Turns out, earlier this year, Bolton did something that did wonders for all kinds of arms control iniatives... what was his bold and helpful move?
Hint: It's the same way Nixon improved the integrity of the oval office.
• Answer 1
Question 2
Some researchers in Holland were exploring how the brain works while people have sex. But they made a surprising discovery that may be a boon to couples the world over... what, it turns out, may be the key to a more satisfying sex life?
Hint: It cures the common problem of getting cold feet.
• Answer 2
Question 3
The mayor of Modesto, Calif. was slightly injured when he was hit by a falling sign that read what?
• Answer 3
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