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May 13, 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: "Can you hear me now? Good."

We were put in mind of that well-known line from the cell phone commercials when news broke this week of what government program?

• Answer 1

Quote 2

CARL: "Dear Infidel Crusader Zionist sock-puppet Saudi-lackey despoiler of Mesopotami, woman-touching, fiendish, Shah-licking son of a toad's offal... I trust this finds you well."

That was from an unauthorized translation... by the columnist James Lileks... of a letter somebody sent this week to President Bush. Who is the president's new pen pal?

Hint: It ended with "PS: Please don't bomb me, please."

• Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "Kennedy, Booze, Vehicle. You Do The Math."

That's the blog called, anti-idiotarian-rottweiller talking about the vehicular adventures of which Kennedy?

• Answer 3

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