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The Brian Lehrer Show

Citizenship Quiz: American Government

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, applicants must pass an oral civics exam. Listeners call in to try their hand at some of the questions on the test.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC on day one of this membership drive.

0:16.9

Good morning again, everyone.

0:18.2

And again, this drive, we're doing a 10-question quiz each day at around this time,

0:23.0

sometime during the 11 o'clock hour.

0:25.2

Get two in a row right, and you'll win a Brian Laird Show baseball cap.

0:28.8

Or for this drive, the new I Stand with WNYC t-shirt.

0:33.1

You can call in right now at 212-433.

0:36.6

WNYC to give it a shot.

0:38.5

212, 433-9-6-9-2.

0:42.0

We do this to break it up and have a little fun during the membership drive while we're

0:45.8

doing our normal serious things like having Senator Chris Murphy on.

0:51.8

We were glad he was able to come on with us to begin the first hour of the

0:55.7

drive today, the first hour of today's show, and Arles Kim, who comes on every Wednesday to talk

1:02.2

about mayoral politics and with Bridget Bergen today. So after that, hopefully good reasons

1:09.4

for you to become a member of WNYC, all that access we give

1:13.3

you to local electeds like Senator Murphy and the amazing reporting that our local news team

1:18.9

like Liz and Bridget and the others do. But we try to break it up with a little fun,

1:25.7

with a quiz and some prizes each day.

1:27.6

And for the first three quizzes, today through Friday, we're drawing our questions from

1:33.4

the United States government citizenship test, questions from the actual published list of questions

1:38.7

that people are given to study from before they take the naturalization test.

1:43.6

Now, I'll say before we jump in and take our first caller, some of these will be really

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