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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 (Listen)

CARL: "Bully... Serial abuser... A kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy... Needs anger management."

Those were key excerpts that a Senate committee heard, in testimony about a Bush foreign policy nominee. Who might be bringing a rare interpersonal skill set to the United Nations?

• Answer 1

Quote 2 (Listen)

CARL: "I think (the legislature) likes to deal with less controversial things like gays, guns and abortion rights."

That's Wisconsin Natural Resources Secretary Scott Hassett talking about a plan that came and went this week in his state -- a plan that would have allowed hunters to stalk a new kind of game animal. What?

Hint: Garfield was last scene running for his life outside of Oshkosh.

• Answer 2

Quote 3 (Listen)

CARL: "Home detention is imposed as an alternative to imprisonment. It is designed to be confining."

That's a U.S. district court judge reminding someone that she's still a prisoner first and a TV star second. Who?

• Answer 3

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