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July 15, 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: "Let's face facts: most of us know what we know about the Geneva Conventions from watching Hogan's Heroes."

That's the Web site poliblog commenting on a big issue on the news this week, whether the Geneva Conventions will be applied to whom?

• Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: "I think your vice president's expression there, is like his bad shot on his hunting trip."

That was a world leader responding to some critical comments from Vice President Cheney. Who's signaled his intentions to shoot back at any criticism he receives?

Hint: Vice President Cheney was criticizing him for his authoritarian tendencies.

• Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "I have nothing but contempt for Materazzi and, if what he said is true, then I want his manhood on a platter."

That was the mother of French soccer star Zinedine Zidane. She was really mad at an opposing player, Marco Materazzi... and by the way, she didn't say "manhood." Zidane himself, though, was even madder, because he did what to his Italian opponent?

• Answer 3

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