10-Question Quiz: Suburban Towns
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.2 | Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:15.1 | And yeah, every day during the Pledge Drive with all the serious news to cover |
| 0:18.7 | and that we're trying to raise money for the station |
| 0:21.8 | and the brakes. We're also doing a 10-question quiz to break things up and have a little fun in |
| 0:27.7 | the middle of the show each day, different theme each day with prizes, choice pieces of WNYC |
| 0:33.7 | swag. Today it'll be two in a row right and you can choose between a Brian Laird Show baseball cap |
| 0:39.1 | and the new WNYC vintage van t-shirt with a really nice design and a van like a public address |
| 0:47.2 | van that used to drive around the streets of New York City back in the 1930s. A little graphic |
| 0:52.5 | of that on the shirt. And today it's a 10-question quiz about the New York City suburbs. |
| 0:57.9 | Yesterday we did questions about New York City neighborhoods. |
| 1:01.5 | Today it's the suburban villages, towns, and small cities of Westchester, New Jersey, |
| 1:08.6 | Connecticut, and Long Island. So we have people lined up ready to play, |
| 1:13.7 | and we're going to start with George in Carlstadt, New Jersey, in Bergen County. Hi, George, |
| 1:18.8 | ready to play? |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, sir. All right. And this is a Jersey question, but it's a history question. Which Native |
| 1:26.4 | American tribe gave the names to most of the towns in |
| 1:30.7 | New Jersey with indigenous names like Hackensack and Mawa and so many more? Do you know the name of the |
| 1:37.3 | tribe? The Lenape is right? Absolutely right. Question two for the hat or the shirt. This hamlet on the south shore of |
| 1:47.3 | Nassau County on Long Island has an indigenous name and the school district is in a battle with |
| 1:55.2 | New York State over its use of indigenous imagery, that is, they want to keep their Native American-inspired |
| 2:02.8 | mascot. |
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