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Nov. 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: "Chief among your foreign policy goals sir, is to not throw up on the Japanese Prime Minister."
That's a writer on the Web site Daily Kos giving someone his marching orders this week. Whose trip to Japan brought back queasy feelings of his father's trip years ago?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "He is a mild-mannered, bearded academic who might actually lose to Alan Greenspan in a charisma contest"
That's how NPR's Jim Zarroli described a man in the news who is unlikely to beat Greenspan in the charisma category. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "Yes, it is true, I persuaded [her] to become the most successful and famous woman in the world. I was also the person who suggested that Jerry Springer not go into syndication, for which I have received too little credit."
That is Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert, talking about how he once dated a now famous woman. He encouraged her to syndicate her daytime talk show, ensuring the massive success of... who?
Hint: He didn't go so far to suggest she put herself on her magazine every month.
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Our museum of toys has some shocks.
Our toy curators kicked out wood blocks.
When it comes time to play
Kids toss contents away.
But they love to hang on to the ________!
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Pennsylvania's outdoorsfolk now grunt,
"Me have sharp stick, no longer use blunt.
Wait long time, sneak up near,
Then me get yum yum deer.
Use notched board to throw darts in big ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Now, my vision is not very clear.
One more drink, you'll look great, dear, come here.
Though I'll take you upstairs
We must both be awares,
We can't blame our affair on the ________."
•Answer 3
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