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Aug. 26, 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: "My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas."
That mnemonic device no longer applies now that what has been demoted?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
Carl: "All of a sudden, you can question anything you serve in a restaurant -- the poor snails and the mussels and the shrimp, the lobsters. You can go on and on."
That was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley lamenting a city-wide ban on what that went into effect this week?
Hint: Morbidly obese geese all over France are rejoicing.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "It's nothing to do with his acting ability; he's a terrific actor. But we don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot."
That's the elderly and more than a little decrepit Sumner Redstone, chief of Viacom, explaining why his company, Paramount Pictures, told its biggest star to take his antics elsewhere... who?
• Answer 3
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