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Feb. 25, 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: "And so people don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if we were concerned about the security for the United States of America."
What deal wouldn't have gone forward if the administration were concerned about our security?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
Carl: "The eight questions he asked put him on course to surpass within days the total number of questions Justice Clarence Thomas has asked in 15 years."
That was Dana Milbank, of The Washington Post, talking about somebody's first day on the job this week. Who?
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "Everybody has dreams... Buy an island. Buy an airplane. In reality, I'm not a fan of flying and don't really like water."
That was a man named Mike Terpstra, who, along with seven of his co-workers at a Nebraska meat packing plant, is going to have to deal with dreams coming true, now that they've won what?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1:
I know that a medal's the goal.
The design, though, is really too droll.
In the big metal disk
There is something amiss.
And the ribbon goes right through the ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2:
It is best we get this off our chest:
Yes, with mammaries we've been obsessed.
We put mice to the test
And our efforts were blessed.
From a single cell we've grown a ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3:
While carbon monoxide does stink
It's the meat vendors' new missing link.
Yes, applied to dead flesh
It makes old stuff look fresh.
Yes, it keeps the meat rosy and ________.
•Answer 3
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