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

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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.

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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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