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May 28, 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: "Four percent think it's a medical procedure; 2 percent think it's a household appliance; 1 percent think it's a breed of horse and 1 percent, a type of sandwich."
That's how some Americans responded when asked about the word at the center of the big political news story this week. What is this thing that is not, as it turns out, a household appliance or a sandwich?
Hint: Even though it's not a sandwich, seven senators from each party decided to cut it in half?
Hint: We could stand at the lectern and go on and on and on for hours about this word.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Judging from his slumping posture and generally dejected appearance Monday night on the floor of the Senate, you would have thought his dog had died."
That's how New York's Newsday described the senator generally agreed to be the big loser in the filibuster debate. This man's leadership and presidential ambitions were hurt by his inability to press the button on the Nuclear Option. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
CARL: "You'll know it when you see it."
That's how several senators tried to define what was basically left undefined in the agreement to end the filibuster fight -- the definition of what term?
Hint: This is when Democrats can go ahead and filibuster.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Butcher of Sagdad."
That's just one of the many headlines that topped some photos that caused quite a stir this past week -- photos of what?
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "There was one kinda embarrassing moment. When I took the stand, they asked me to point out the defendant and I pointed out LaToya."
That's Tonight Show host Jay Leno making light of his moment on the witness stand this week for what trial?
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
CARL: "I can't be cool -- I can't be laid back! Woo! Hoo!! It's something that has happened, and I feel I want to celebrate it, and I want to celebrate her! Woo! Woo!!!"
That's how a big star got all crazy -- jumping around and punching the air -- on Oprah Winfrey's show to tell the world that he's ga ga over his new girlfriend, who's just crazy, crazy in love and wants us all to know about it?
Hint: It must be true because he never did this for Nicole Kidman... or Penelope Cruz... or Mimi Rogers.
Hint: We guess true love for him wasn't a Mission Impossible.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
In France, we pick things off the ground.
To collect them we are honorbound.
If there's something you've tossed,
And you're worried it's lost.
At our office it might turn up ________."
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
At the call center, workers just dozed.
Folks just weren't as depressed as supposed.
So if you start to despair,
Too bad we're not there
Call back later, the hotline is ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Mom, don't be eyerrrRATE,
But I just bought a crrrRATE.
Who cares what they costed,
They're crunchy and frosted.
And the tiger says, "They're!" ________.
•Answer 3
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