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May 21, 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: "The Senate chaplain started (the proceedings) with a prayer for 'patience and peace.' Thirty-three minutes later, the majority leader just about accused the minority leader of attempted murder.'"
That was how The Washington Post described the scene as the world's most deliberative body prepared to discuss what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Does Guantanamo really have toilets that can ingest such a bulky book? A few choice verses? Maybe. A page or two? Sure. But the entire book? We must immediately bring these plumbing geniuses to New York!"
That late-night comic routine was aimed at a story published where?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "Nerdi Gras"
That was what one fan called the huge festivities this week, all celebrating the release of what movie?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "It doesn't matter who you get [as mayor]. You're going to get screwed over, even if it's by your own ethnicity."
That's a Mexican American in a certain city, unimpressed by the fact that one of his own won the mayoral race. Where?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "It looks like a junkyard. You take a look at the roofs on those buildings, they're all at different angles, different shapes. It is the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life."
That's someone discussing the plans for the Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center, as he unveiled his own plan for the site. Who is this sophisticated architectural critic?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I walk out of my house in my pyjamas, with no make-up on, and I just don't care because that's how I feel more comfortable. After I got married I was one of those people who let themselves go a little bit."
That was a star admitting what we already knew about her, to The Sun tabloid of Britain. Whose post-marriage decline can we now watch every other week, on her new reality TV show?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
When your boyfriend with panic is stricken,
And you want wedding planning to quicken,
If you want plucky lovin'
Just turn on your oven
And fix an engagement roast ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
The demand on our airline's increased.
We ship folks to their rabbi or priest.
They're already departed
Before the flight's started.
We've got special deals for the ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
At family affairs I am listless.
How'd I get my bad self into this mess?
But this new greeting card
Makes my cheating less hard.
It's specifically made for my ________.
•Answer 3
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