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Nov. 26, 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: "His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter beginning,
And the shafts of his boots: always spotlessly shining."
That pretty much sums up what Californians had to say this week to whom?
That was from a poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. Turns out he really should not have decided to mock the "cockroach moustache" of whom?
Hint: The poem was written in 1934.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policemen is there to preserve disorder."
That was a big city mayor, speaking back in 1968, as his police did a bang-up job preserving disorder in the streets. What city?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "With me, you get two for the price of one!"
That was someone back in 1992, telling the voters of America that they could expect an extra special bonus if they elected him. Who came to regret that promise?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Because Jefferson's old kitchen wench tries
The guests at the dining hall bench rise.
"With this new dish we're spoiled.
What's this, spuds cooked in oil?
It is Jefferson's brand new dish ________!"
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Thoreau's mind, like his hands, was prehensile,
So he thought up a desktop utensil.
His graphite stick bled
So he went to his shed,
And perfected the non-smear lead ________."
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Santa Anna, that chewing looks dumb.
It's just one step from sucking your thumb.
All right, give me a try.
This is great! --smack-- oh, my!
I might sell this stuff, call it ________."
•Answer 3
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