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September 3, 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: "Get out... I mean it."
That was the succinct response offered by a city official when asked about the disaster unfolding in her city -- where?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees."
That was someone explaining why the disaster in New Orleans was such a surprise to him, even though it wasn't, really, to anybody else. Who was it?
Hint: Well, it's tough to keep up with things when you're on vacation.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "If you look for your [off shore] platform and it's not there, that's pretty obvious."
That was a U.S. Energy Information Administration official, giving one method of figuring out whether Hurricane Katrina will lead to higher prices of -- what?
• Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1
Hollywood just suffered through a summer of box-office flops. As you can imagine, this caused a lot of concern to Hollywood executives and industry analysts. They did a lot of research, consulted the foremost experts, and determined the problem was -- what?
Hint: It's the Rob Schneider factor.
• Answer 1
Question 2
Scientists have determined that one of the dire warnings we received as children has a basis in fact: If we look too much at naughty pictures, what can happen?
• Answer 2
Question 3
A robbery attempt at a Louisiana gas station failed miserably when the gas station attendant realized the robber was armed with a what?
Hint: Even airlines feel safe giving these to passengers.
• Answer 3
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