email us: waitwait@npr.org

Feb. 26, 2005

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: "And having said that, all options are on the table."

That was someone making our policy on Iran perfectly clear. Who?

• Answer 1

Quote 2 (Listen)

CARL: "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

That was the credo of a very famous writer whom sex, drugs and insanity served really well, at least until he died this week at the age of 67.

• Answer 2

Quote 3 (Listen)

CARL: "Considering they have had 33 years to plan this great event, they have made a ham-fist of it. This certainly looks like a comedy of errors."

That was Richard Kay , the royal correspondent for the Daily Mail in Britain. What event -- three decades in the making -- is turning into a monstrous fiasco for the British Crown?

• Answer 3

E-mail this Page

 

Recipient's e-mail address:	» Up to twelve addresses, separated by commas.
Your e-mail address:
Your name:
Personal message (optional, 600 characters max):
Your NPR member station:	» List of local stations (PDF)
Are you a member of your local NPR station?	Yes    No
Would you like to receive information from your local NPR member station? (see NPR's privacy policy)	Yes    No
May we contact you with information about NPR programming and services? (see NPR's privacy policy)	Yes    No
(Information collected by NPR will be used solely for internal NPR or NPR member station purposes and only if you selected 'yes' above. See NPR's privacy policy for more information.)