Civics Trivia: Taxes, terrifying birds, and The West Wing

Civics 101

NHPR

Society & Culture, Government, History

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's another edition of Civics 101 Trivia! This time, it's also the swan song for one of our own. Senior Producer Christina Phillips, our mastermind of minutiae and all things related to taxes, joins us to convene a final round of her trademark trivia. Here is the link to the FOIA documents about the government's involvement in Hollywood productions. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Civics 101.
0:06.9	I'm Christina Phillips.
0:08.2	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:09.5	I'm Necappadice.
0:10.7	And I am Rebecca LaVoy.
0:12.4	And I'm realizing it's awkward for me to introduce why we're here.
0:15.9	Well, I'll say it.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:17.5	Christina, you are moving over to the newsroom at NHPR.
0:20.6	You've got a big promotion. And this is your final episode that you are writing and producing
0:25.5	and being in on the Civics 101 team.
0:28.0	And we will miss you so much, but we are also so happy for you.
0:31.7	We are so happy.
0:32.5	Start playing bittersweet symphony.
0:35.5	We are so happy for you.
0:37.4	But I want to get sued by the Rolling Stone.
0:40.1	That's right.
0:41.1	That'd be a good way to go out.
0:44.0	I decided that I would finish us off with a trivia.
0:48.1	Ooh.
0:48.9	And I tried to pick a bunch of things that were my favorite things.
0:53.7	And then a couple of things that were that favorite things and then a couple of things that
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