NPR

Sept. 9, 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: "Oh, Those Secret Prisons."

That was the blog Wonkette summarizing a major speech given on Wednesday by whom?

Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: "Crikey! What a liddle bewdy!"

That was the famous catchphrase of someone who met an untimely, if not entirely unexpected death this week. Who?

Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "She referred to the Taliban in Afghanistan as "Al Qaeda's best friends," as if the two groups schedule play dates... Al Qaeda's best friends? Would Murrow have said that? Cronkite? Rather? That last guy?"

That's Los Angeles Times critic Paul Brownfield taking stock of who's much anticipated TV debut Tuesday evening?

Answer 3