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April 1, 2006
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
CARL: "The president has to have time to eat, sleep and be merry, or he'll make angry, grumpy decisions. So I have to make sure he has time to eat, sleep and be merry."
That's was someone in the Bush administration, describing his job in an interview two years ago. This week, he told the president that somebody else would have to block out that executive "be merry" time. Who resigned his post?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
CARL: "I am about to be sent back (to Cuba) as it is... I better be careful."
That was Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), doing his best to be extra special careful as he, and the rest of the Senate, took up a controversial bill to change how the nation deals with what?
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "From watching too many episodes of The Sopranos, your staff seems to have acquired the belief that any Sicilian gesture is obscene."
That was someone defending himself from the charges that he had made an obscene gesture at a reporter... who says he may be Italian, but he's never rude?
Hint: He was responding to a question about whether he could rule fairly on cases involving religious freedom.
• Answer 3
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