NPR

Sept. 23, 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: "The devil came here yesterday. Right here... It smells of sulfur still."

That was Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez delivering a memorable performance at the UN this week. What the devil was Chavez talking about?

Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: What's going on? Is it a party?"

That's an unwitting tourist in an Asian capital asking why there were tanks and soldiers on the streets, in what country?

Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "I noticed that [it] tasted different, but I thought it was just the dressing."

That was a college student named Elizabeth Rhodes talking to USA Today, but it wasn't the dressing in her salad that made her, and more than 100 others, sick. The culprit was what?

Answer 3