10-Question Quiz: American History, Part 2
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.4 | Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes, each day during the membership drive, we're doing a quiz in the middle of the show to have a little fun and break up the fundraising and all the serious stuff. Today, it's a five-question quiz, five questions from the |
| 0:26.8 | United States Citizenship Test. Could you pass the new, more difficult citizenship test? |
| 0:32.5 | If you were just getting naturalized now, just answer one question right. And you can choose between a Brian |
| 0:38.9 | Lerichel baseball cap and the new WNYC Beach towel. Just five questions rather than the usual |
| 0:44.9 | 10 because our guest, Quizmaster, Kenneth C. Davis, author of the Don't Know Much |
| 0:49.0 | About History, Series of Books is such an interesting explainer about these things. And we're |
| 0:54.0 | building in time for that. |
| 0:56.0 | Many of you know how good he is at this if you were listening yesterday. So who wants the player? |
| 1:00.6 | Lines are full. So as people finish up, you can get in at 212-433 WNIC. More specifically, Kenneth C. Davis |
| 1:09.1 | is the author of the Don't know much about series of books, |
| 1:12.1 | including Don't Know Much About History, Don't Know Much About Geography, Don't Know Much About Mythology, Among |
| 1:17.7 | Others, and also of other books, including his most recent great short books, A Year of Reading Wisely. |
| 1:25.0 | Ken, thanks for doing this. Welcome back to WNYC. It is always a pleasure, Brian. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you for having me. I have a feeling it might be a big beach towel day. Yeah, especially if it's |
| 1:34.3 | hitting 95, but you can't go to the beach in midtown Manhattan. So I don't know. At least the |
| 1:39.2 | Long Island Railroad is running again. Tar Beach. So more people can go to the beach. For a little context, did the citizenship test for immigrants who want to become |
| 1:49.1 | naturalized citizens change in recent years? |
| 1:52.4 | Yes, it did change. |
| 1:54.0 | And I don't remember exactly when. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm sure somebody will tell us. |
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