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March 19, 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: "It shocked the whole world... and people were just shouting out as they heard the news and holding their heads in horror."
That was Clare Short, member of the British Parliament, as heard on Morning Edition summing up the rather cool reaction of our European friends to the news that President Bush will nominate who to be head of the World Bank?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "It's as important to me as the first step Armstrong took when he stepped off on the moon."
That was Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska -- who got maybe a little too excited -- as the Senate this week, after years of debate, finally approved doing what in his state?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "I'd be a great (spokesman)."
That's former major leaguer Mark McGwire telling members of Congress that he would be a perfect spokesman to tell kids not to do what?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Now that NASA's no longer inert.
Astral schmutz is a fact we can't skirt.
Since hard lunar rubble,
Could cause major trouble.
We need simulated moon ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
It's a sound women can't be ignoring.
It's like chainsaws attacking wood flooring.
But we don't say a peep,
And we let husbands sleep.
We're not gonna wake men who are ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
While guitarists are cranking the reverb,
The lead singer says, "Darn, guess what we heard.
That silly request,
To play Skynyrd's best.
Some drunk fan just shouted, "Play '_______!' "
•Answer 3
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