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March 4, 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: "(He) is just one embarrassing video away from Paris Hilton."
That's the Hotline political newsletter describing someone who, like Paris, had to endure an embarrassing video being released to the public. Who was this unwilling video star?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
CARL: "I am sitting on the small balcony of my hotel... and I am watching a man dressed as a giant phallus, screaming obscenities at a woman disguised as SpongeBob SquarePants."
That's the BBC's Matt Frei checking out what was in essence, the recovery effort this week in what city?
Hint: This year, girls on the parade route wouldn't lift their tops for beads... they held out for housing vouchers.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "All I'm saying is that there are some things beyond the ken of mortal man that shouldn't be tampered with. We don't know everything, Andy. There's plenty going on right now in the Twilight Zone that we don't know anything about and I think we ought to stay clear."
That's deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show, the best known character from an actor who died this past week. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1:
My menu takes pains to describe
How many "free" drinks I'll imbibe.
Duke Cunningham works
On quidproquo perks.
Here's how much you can get for your ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2:
Ice age men were quite easily conned.
And brunette genes were forced to abscond.
One minor mutation
Caused quite a sensation,
Yes, it seems Ice Age men preferred ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3:
The amendment's not on weekday nights.
Not like Homer and Bart, so it bites.
Maggie, Lisa and Marge,
Are well known, by and large,
But we don't know our own Bill of ________.
•Answer 3
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