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The NPR Politics Podcast

It's A Politics Podcast Trivia Game!

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We're off for Labor Day, but we wanted to give you something a little fun to listen to. It's our Politics Podcast Trivia Game! This episode was first released as a bonus episode for NPR Politics Podcast+ listeners. We're excited to give everyone an opportunity to hear it now!

If you want to a chance to be our next trivia contestant and to hear more bonus content like this (and support NPR in the process), sign up for NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org.

NPR Politics Podcast+ supporters: we'll have a fresh bonus episode for you later this week!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, Tamara Keith here. We are off for Labor Day, but we wanted to give you something

0:04.3

a little fun to listen to. It is our Politics Podcast trivia game. We recently released it for

0:10.6

Politics Podcast Plus supporters. And we are excited to give everyone a chance to hear it now.

0:16.9

It's just one example of what we do over in that bonus episode feed. So we've taken you behind

0:22.4

the scenes of how we cover big political events. We've had history chats with Ron Elving.

0:27.9

I called in from Iowa, where I was riding my bike. We have even given you a tour of the capital.

0:33.4

And of course, trivia, where we quiz one lucky Politics Podcast Plus listener on the latest

0:39.7

political news. These bonus episodes are just one perk of signing up for plus. Another is that you

0:45.6

get regular episodes of our show without sponsor messages. And of course, the most important perk

0:51.2

of all is you get to support NPR and our journalism in the process. So listen, if you are already a

0:57.0

Politics Podcast Plus listener, thank you. And if you haven't signed up, you can. Just check out the

1:03.1

link in our episode notes. With that, here is our Politics Podcast trivia game. Enjoy.

1:27.1

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1:47.8

Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

1:52.4

And I'm Ron Elving, Editor Correspondent. And for this bonus episode, we are doing another

1:58.0

Politics Podcast trivia game. We had a lot of fun last time. So today, we have another plus listener

2:04.8

joining us to play Welcome. Hi there. This is Ann Swensky from Whitehall, Pennsylvania.

2:10.3

Hello. And thank you so much for being here and for supporting the podcast.

2:14.9

I am so excited to be here when I found out you were doing trivia. I was like, that's it. I'm

2:20.5

definitely putting my name in the hat. And your name was pulled out of said hat. So I understand

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