From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz.

Think I look at my horns, Pam Plona. It's the running of the build!

I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium and downtown Chicago Peter's.

Thank you Bill! Thanks everybody!

Thank you! It's great to be back with you all! I missed you!

We have a wonderful show for you today. Later on we're going to be talking to Tierra Fletcher.

She's the 24-year-old MIT grad who is now designing the rocket that will take us to Mars.

But first we were very proud of the eyes of the world we're on Chicago this week,

when an alligator, an actual alligator, was found in a pond in a city park here.

It just shows that Illinois is slowly becoming the next Florida.

Now the process of fluoridification, of course, will not be complete until a drunk shirtless guy jumps into the alligator pond and makes out with it.

So while we are still stable enough to answer the call, give us a call!

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Let's welcome our first listener contest and hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Hi Peter, this is A. David Lewis calling from Arlington, Massachusetts.

Arlington, Mass, I know it extremely well. What do you do there, Arlington?

Well, by day I teach at a college at a university here in the area and by night I write comic books.

No, really? I was close to what I was hoping for because I was hoping you'd say by night I fight crime.

That's close enough. What kind of comic books are you writing?

I actually write a book called Kismet Man of Fate. It's about the first Muslim superhero from 1944.

How very cool! And what kind of enemy, what kind of enemies does Kismet fight?

He fights fascist, Peter and...

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