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Feb. 11, 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 Korva This Time?
Quote 1
Korva: "Embassies have been torched... ignorance flows from all corners -- all for a few cartoons less intelligible than your average Cathy strip."
That's Choire Sicha writing for the Web site Morning News...talking about the big brouhaha over 12 cartoons that portray images of whom?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
Korva: "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."
That was someone reportedly assuring us that it was President George Washington who started the venerable American tradition of eavesdropping on phone calls without warrants. Who was it?
Hint: He said it during a special hearing of the Senate earlier this week.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Korva: "They could be more accurately branded "The European and North American Expensive Sports Festival."
That was Paul Farhi of The Washington Post, suggesting a new name for the big athletic event starting this weekend?
• Answer 3
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