NPR

Sept. 16, 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: "His face just started to turn red. I thought, personally, he had to go to the bathroom."

That's a 13-year-old named Tyler Radke. He was remembering the day five years ago Monday when someone sat in on the reading of My Pet Goat in Tyler's second grade class. Who was it?

Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: "I did not see it go. I'm looking to see if anything is floating."

That's a man talking about a bolt he lost this week during a big fixit job this week. Where?

Hint: He was working outside... way outside.

Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "Poor George... he can't help it... he was born with a silver foot in his mouth!"

That little dig about the first President Bush was from a very colorful woman we lost this week, at the age of 74. Who was it?

Answer 3