For NPR and W.B.E.C. Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR News Quiz.

Hey, cast away Tom Hanks. I'll be your friend. I'm Bill Sun.

Bill Curtis. And here's your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago. Peter Seigal.

Thank you, Bill. Thanks everybody. Thank you all so much. 2018 is finally over and you thought you would escape Scott Free,

but just when you thought you were out, we're going to pull you back in.

On today's show, our own highlights of the year going by.

Someday, you're going to look back on all of this and say, no way that happened, but we've got it on tape.

Here's some of the key news moments of 2018 as interpreted by Bill.

Your first quote, Lynn, is a trenchant observation about the current complex debate about immigration.

Why are we having all these people from sh** old countries come here?

Wow. You know, someday he's going to have a library.

Lynn, who was that? Donald Trump.

Yes, Donald Trump.

This week, we finally got Trump's equivalent of JFK's Ask Not, what your country can do for you moment,

but it was more like kids ask not what the president just said.

Look, we can't really say the word the president Trump used to describe countries in Central America.

What we can. Why don't we just pronounce it phonetically?

Shethol. Shethol, yeah. That's a good idea actually.

Shethol, shethol. He also said after disparaging the people from those countries,

he said he preferred immigrants from Norway, possibly because he had just met the prime minister

of Norway the day before and it went really well. She seemed very white.

I know, I'd be more offended if I was Norway at this point. I'd be like, oh, god, no.

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