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Nov. 5, 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: "He intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court."
That was the caption under someone's college yearbook photo of a man who was on the front pages this week. Who seems to know what he wanted, 30 years ago?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "This is an affront to me personally. It's an affront to our leadership. It's an affront to the United States of America! For the next year and a half, I can't trust Sen. Reid."
That's Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist this week totally P.O.'d at Minority Leader Harry Reid after Reid and his Democratic colleagues dusted off a rarely-used parliamentary maneuver to do what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "His clear, steady voice, piercing blue eyes and unimpeachable integrity restored my faith in America and made me want to do things I have never done before."
That was Tina Fey, on NBC's Saturday Night Live, giving it up for a man many people have heard, but few had seen, before a live press conference last week. Who's Washington's new heartthrob?
Hint: He's an implacable federal prosecutor with a heart of gold.
Hint2: Scooter Libby doesn't find him that charming.
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Since this hidden identity looter,
Karl Rove's been set up to be neutered.
Though we all can place blame
One more question remains:
Just how did he get the name ________!
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I fibbed some and now I feel crummy,
But that polygraph sure is a dummy.
Please don't ask a question
Of my large intestine.
All lying shows up in my ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
New York was unable to tell,
What the thing was that pleased noses well.
"It's here in the street,
But, that's weird, it seems sweet.
We can't figure out, what is that ________."
•Answer 3
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