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Jan. 21, 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: "[It's] like asking John Gotti to clean up organized crime."
That was Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid giving his opinion of a new proposal by his republican colleagues... a proposal to fix what?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
CARL: "A travel ban on [their] leaders... That'll show 'em: No more trips to Paris for the spring collections or skiing in Gstaad for the A-list ayatollahs."
That was columnist Mark Steyn, not impressed with the threat of sanctions for a country hoping to reactivate its nuclear program. What's the country in danger of having its leaders vacation at home?
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "In a sense, it was, 'Let's go see the oddball.'"
That's Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology talking about the original motivation of New Horizons. The NASA mission launched this week that will visit, for the first time, what cosmic oddball?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl, Round II
Quote 1
CARL: "This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. It's the way God wants it to be."
That's a man named Ray Nagin giving a speech, on what future city of made of chocolate?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
CARL: "[I promise] to make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent but are actually noticed by other powers around the world."
The man who said that is a candidate in his country's national election this coming Monday... an election that, like a lot of things that happen in this country, has been ignored around the rest of the world. What country?
Hint: All the candidates are working on their get oot the vote campaign.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "You see, Mr. Scott? In the water I'm a very skinny lady."
That's an actress in one of her Oscar-nominated roles, this one from The Poseidon Adventure. This actress died last weekend. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1:
With joke drills and hilarity graph
I'm the clown on the Pentagon's staff.
The grim rank and file,
Now roll in the aisles.
I'm teaching the soldiers to ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2:
Hold off with your morbiers and mries.
I like tasting the grape, if you please.
Your rennet and curds,
Make the tannins all blurred.
Don't ruin my wine with your ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3:
In the fishtank I'm seldom ignored.
My size leaves all enemies floored.
My tailfin's like steel,
And the girl fish all squeal.
I'm the King when I brandish my ________.
•Answer 3
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