From NPR and though to be easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

Who needs Ted?

How about Bill's excellent adventure?

I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host, a man who sits quietly all week until I say his

name.

Peter Segold.

Thank you Bill and thanks once again to our fake audience, which this week is everybody

who's cable went out right before 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday and stayed out throughout the rest

of the week.

It really was quite a week.

Now we all expected an October surprise but we didn't expect it at 11 p.m. on October

1st.

And when you think about it, it really was more like an October, oh, what a surprise.

Peter Om we're going to be talking to an expert on dealing with the unexpected with a

plum.

That's the British ambassador to the United States, Dame Karen Pierce.

But right now we are very eager to hear you say the appropriate things at a time like

this.

The number to call is 1-triple-8, wait, wait, that's 1-888-924-8924.

Let's welcome our first listener contestant.

Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, don't tell me.

Hi, this is Chrissy.

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