Hey Y'all, I'm NPR's Sam Sanders and I'm here today to play Wait Wait Don't Tell Me's
new quiz for smart speakers.
In February Boston Dynamics made everybody a little nervous with footage of a robot that could open (blank)?
A door!
That's right. It opens doors.
Uh oooh.
In August, a group of planetary researchers released a paper saying that (blank) should be
reclassified as a planet?
Pluto!
Thats right! Pluto.
In November a group of astrophysicists announced plans to build a space laser to contact (blank)?
Mars?
They were trying to contact aliens.
In August a gem dealer in New York City stopped the world's tiniest heist when diamond was carried away on the back of a (blank)?
Chihuahua?
It was carried away by an ant
The little bandit carried the diamond a few feet across the table, a long way for an ant, before getting busted
Fake news
Clearly, I am not as smart as I think I am,
but you can prove your intelligence by taking the Wait Wait Quiz
Whenever you want, on your smart speaker
And play along with Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis
My friends. Alright Bye!
