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September 10, 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: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
That was President Bush, giving his praise to a man named Michael Brown. What job was "Brownie" doing such a heck of?
Hint: There about 500,000 very wet people who might disagree.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "I love you, too, Oprah! Can you help me get a big-screen TV?"
That was one man's reaction to seeing Oprah Winfrey at the Houston Astrodome this week. Winfrey was one of many celebrities who paid visits to whom?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "They did two takes. (He) made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog."
That's a doctor at the New Orleans convention center saying that a certain newsman saved a woman twice to make sure he got it on camera. Who?
Hint: We hear he was later kicked out of Louisiana for revealing the movements of FEMA officials.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl, Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
CARL: "Who the hell is that clown? The guy dressed like a clown, who's running the meeting."
That was the late President Nixon. He was talking about a lawyer he had just met, a lawyer who -- despite his clownish appearance -- Nixon would nominate to the Supreme Court, a short time later. That justice died this week at the age of 80. Who?
Hint: He spent the intervening 30 years wearing an amusing black robe.
• Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen)
CARL: "He is Doogie Howser, Rudolph taking over as lead reindeer. He is Dan Quayle with spell check... He is Michael Corleone in the The Godfather unbothered by need to rise patiently through the ranks."
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
Carl: "I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
That, from 2003, is what a certain governor said about gay marriage. This week, he reaffirmed his belief -- whatever it is -- when he promised to veto a gay marriage bill. Who?
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Let's converse in a way that's not stuffy.
What are Saturns rings like? That's a toughy.
We thought they were shards
Of ice that was hard.
But they're more like snow: airy and ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
Oh, fun. Here's a DNA kit.
Now I need to save what!? Oh, I quit.
I can't get saliva
From that angry driver
I normally duck when they ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
With hair-challenged drivers recalled,
Nanjing's taxi traffic has stalled.
Too much scalp makes us look
Like a city of crooks,
So cabbies here may not be ________.
•Answer 3
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