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Jan. 14, 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 (Listen)
CARL: "He is like a very, very smart rock."
That was Slate's legal correspondent, Dahlia Lithwick, summing up the underwhelming impression made by a man after he starred in three full days of a live TV broadcast. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Shut up, already."
That was the headline of an editorial in the Orlando Sentinel, advising some people to keep their mouths closed and their ears open. Who?
Before answering, let me go on for 20 minutes about my own opinions about you.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "It seems strangely fitting that [her] first biological child would come from Brad Pitt and not one of her previous guy friends. It's almost as if her DNA was smart enough to reject Billy Bob Thornton's sperm and wait it out for a more suitable candidate."
That's the blogger known as the Superficial reacting to that announcement that who is pregnant?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl, Round II
Quote 1 (Listen)
CARL: "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with."
That is a "Republican close to the President's circle" talking to Time magazine about how the president and his associates feel about a fellow Texas politician. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "There's a rather large 'foot secrecy' going on here."
That's a White House reporter trying in vain to get spokesman Scott McClellan to give him more information about someone's foot. Who's foot became a subject of contention this week?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "Then, at long last, a flatulent version of Richard Strauss' 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' broke the tension."
That's how the Chicago Sun-Times reported the new era at Sirius Satellite radio as who started his new morning show this week?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Ken Lay's lawyers are smart as they come.
Quote: "Now you beat your big, hollow drum.
Let the other guys show
what they think you know.
You just keep on saying that you're ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
We've got ways to put drivers on hold,
So they won't drink the beer as it's sold.
They won't crack the new brew
If the can shows no dew,
So make sure that the beer is not ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
My husband's hand squeezed into mush.
Did it help? I won't beat 'round the bush.
If it means less direction
I'll get the C-section
Shut up! Don't you tell me to ________.
•Answer 3
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