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The Brian Lehrer Show

10-Question Quiz: Famous Quotes

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Listeners listen to an iconic or otherwise interesting quote by a famous person in politics or from history and try to guess who said it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gautomis Newsroom, sitting in for Brian today, who is in debate prep mode.

0:22.5

This is the membership drive, and we're doing a 10-question quiz each day at around this time during the 11 o'clock hour.

0:30.4

So to get right to today's quiz, you can either win either a you can't defund the truth tote bag or a brian larshow baseball cap that's if you get

0:39.6

two in a row correct excuse me so i want to see who wants to play we have a really fun one today

0:45.4

it's a history quiz called who said that it's mostly built around sound bites who wants to play

0:51.2

who said that the number 212 433 WNY? The number 212-433 WNYC. That's 212-433-9692. So here we go. And I think we are starting off with Pam in Cliffside Park. Pam, welcome to WNYC.

1:08.9

Hi. good morning.

1:18.3

Okay, Pam, so this first question, this first one, this first one is among the most famous lines in American political history.

1:20.9

Let's take a listen.

1:21.5

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

1:33.3

Okay, Pam. Who said that?

1:37.5

John F. Kennedy.

1:39.1

That is... Oh, two in a row. Okay, Pam, you have to give me a little grace.

1:46.7

This is my first quiz.

1:49.0

Here comes number two.

1:50.9

My two.

1:52.5

I'm glad we're in it together.

1:54.7

This became a rallying cry for labor rights, civil rights, and immigrant rights.

2:00.2

To this day, it can be heard on picket lines

2:02.1

and protests and at campaign rallies, the phrases, Cici Puei. Who is credited with coining or

2:09.6

popularizing the phrase Cici Puei for United Farm Workers of America?

2:16.2

Cesar Chavez.

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