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September 17, 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: "Dr. Zhivago and North by Northwest. "
That was the clearest, most definitive answer given by someone who was asked a ton of questions this week. Who said that?
Hint: Good thing neither of these movies deals with state decisis.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Whoops"
That was the spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Monday, giving her best explanation for an event that rocked L.A. early this week…what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?"
Who was sitting at the United Nations' 60th anniversary celebration with his legs crossed?
Hint: The message was in a note to Condoleezza Rice.
• Answer 3
Opening Panel Questions
Question 1
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a number of state officials all across the country are complaining. Their feelings are hurt because they're not getting their share of what?
Hint: What if you put out 1,000 cots and nobody came?
• Answer 1
Question 2
Back to the Roberts hearings for a moment. In an example of how carefully vetted the candidate was by the Senate this week: A Web site posted a picture of Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, doing what?
Hint: What's a five letter word for state decisis?
• Answer 2
Question 3
Last year, conservatives rallied around The Passion of the Christ. This year they've found a new movie they can all agree on. It promotes monogamy, the right to life and, according to one magazine, makes a strong case for intelligent design. What's the movie?
Hint: These stars are well dressed, to be sure -- all of them are wearing tuxedos.
• Answer 3
Who's Carl, Round Two
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "Nothing can salve the wounds like money."
That was an anonymous White House aide, quoted in The New York Times. This week, President Bush announced he's going to salve what very big wound with a very very large amount of money?
Hint: They're going to repair the gaps in the levees by dropping in big sacks of hundred-dollar bills.
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "They love federal protection, and it shows."
That was Fark.com rewriting the jingle for an airline that filed for bankruptcy this week -- what airline?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So if a cesarian doesn't happen, I'll be like, 'Epidural, please.'"
That was someone giving us a glimpse of her carefully considered birth plan. Who finally reproduced this week?
Hint: Now when she says, "Hit me baby one more time," she can mean it literally and in a maternal, playful way.
• Answer 3
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