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Nov. 12, 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: "NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO."
That pretty much sums up what Californians had to say this week to whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "High school science finals will be so much easier now that the kids can just write down 'God did it!'"
That was a blogger named Russ Bellville, one of the many people covering the State of Kansas for their latest victory in the ongoing battle against what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "My husband and I were considering several cruise lines, and after we read about what your captain did, we're going with you."
That was an e-mail from a woman who decided to book her trip with Seabourn Cruise Lines after the Captain of one of their ships stopped what?
Hint: Arrrr! Turn over your buffet! Arrr!
• Answer 3
Who's Carl, Round II
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "Wow! Brazil is big."
That's what someone reportedly said upon seeing a map of our neighbor to the South. Who got a lesson in basic geography this past week?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Liberté, Égalité, Stupidité."
That's how Slate headlined a story explaining why the French government can't stop what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "I am so powerful and influential that I take over Army divisions? I run the New York Times newsroom single-handedly? And now I take the country to war? Wow!... I've heard of pushy broads, but this brings the pushy broad to a new level."
That's a reporter talking to The Washington Post about her reputation, as she exited the job that gained her that reputation. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Though on my new findings they show'r doubt,
I have ways to get cabbage's pow'r out.
Once the pickling is through,
We will lick the bird flu.
Yes, the illness succumbs to some ________!
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
If maize had been meant to be worn,
Toe tamales my feet would adorn.
I prefer crisp, flat breads
To some synthesized threads,
So please do not make socks from my ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
The researcher wipes his moist brow.
"It's been done, but I do not know how.
These ruminant beasts
Will not budge in the least.
How do drunken fratboys tip a ________."
•Answer 3
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