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The Brian Lehrer Show

10 Question Quiz: More History

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Every day during this pledge drive, listeners can try their hands at a quiz. Today's topic is American history, with some NY/NJ history questions sprinkled in.

Transcript

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0:07.2

It's the Brian Mayer Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. And yes, as we've been doing every day during the membership drive to break things up a little bit. We have a 10 question quiz right after the 11 o'clock news. We'll do another one tomorrow to end the drive. Today's 10 question quiz includes leftovers and some new questions that we added from last

0:41.3

week's American History 101 quiz and last week's New York and New Jersey History 101 quiz.

0:47.1

So who wants to play?

0:49.4

212-433.

0:51.8

WNYC, as people get on and finish up,

0:54.8

212, 433-9692.

0:58.3

And we'll start with Tessa in Manhattan today.

1:00.7

Hi, Tessa, ready to play?

1:05.6

Do we have Tessa?

1:18.6

Okay, hang on, let me do this the right way. Here we go. Tessa in Manhattan, I think we have you now. You're there?

1:29.1

Yes. Okay. Question one. We're talking a lot these days about immigration and who should be let in or deported.

1:39.5

What U.S. law passed in 1882 was the first to specifically ban immigration based on a specific nationality? The first to specifically ban immigration based on a specific nationality.

1:44.8

What was it?

1:47.9

It was, I think it was called the Chinese Immigration Act.

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Yeah, that's close enough.

1:53.9

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

1:58.0

Question two for the Brian Lair Show baseball hat or the Brian Lairnshell Pro Democracy Tote, your choice.

2:04.3

Here's a past U.S. president. We're going to play a clip who we've talked about in a hundred years of a hundred things series.

2:11.9

This clip is very relevant today when there's so much discussion of government by billionaires.

2:16.8

Who is speaking here?

2:19.4

And we know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

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