It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. And again, this membership drive, we're doing a 10-question quiz each day to break things up and have a little fun.

If we're going to be doing all this fundraising, we at least could do a little fun-raising along the way, right?

We'll have a different theme each day, get two in a row right, and today you can choose between a Brian Laird Show baseball hat or that new WNYC vintage van t-shirt we've been talking about, your choice.

And today it's a 10-question Black History Month quiz.

Were you paying attention in our three-part series on the history of acknowledging

black history with Mark Morial and Carsonia Wise Whitehead?

Who wants to play?

You can call 212-433 W-N-YC, 212-433-9-6-9-2. And I'll say if you don't feel

confident about your knowledge of history, give it a shot anyway. Most of these will be multiple

choice questions. So who wants to play? 212-433-962, and we'll start with Sybil and Montclair.

Hey, Sybil, you're on WNYC.

Ready to play?

I'm ready to play.

All right.

This is the centennial year of the precursor to Black History Month,

originally known as Negro History Week in the language of that era,

in what year was it founded?

1826.

Yes, that was to see if you're awake,

because this is the centennial year that it was founded in 1926.

Question two, and for the hat or the T-shirt, known as the father of black history,

this person was only the second black man to obtain a PhD from Harvard, and he's the one

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