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The Brian Lehrer Show

Pop Quiz: A Sunday Puzzle on Tuesday

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Media, Public, Arts, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, York, Npr, Wnyc, News, Bryan, Radio, Politics, Lerer, New

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Will Shortz, NPR's puzzlemaster and New York Times' crossword puzzle editor, brings a special word puzzle that include the letters N Y and C.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian LaRosho on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

0:14.6

And now on this last day of the membership drive, we have our last Brian LaRosho membership

0:19.1

drive quiz.

0:20.1

It's a will short, sword play quiz who wants to give it a shot.

0:24.7

Same rules applies.

0:25.7

The rest of the drive got two in a row right.

0:28.0

Brian LaRosho baseball cap, two, one, two, four, three, three, WNYC.

0:33.4

And if you haven't heard these before, very briefly, what is this?

0:37.4

Well, every day at this time during the drive, we've been presenting a low stakes pop quiz

0:43.1

in which we don't give grades, but we do give prizes.

0:46.9

And yes, we do wrap it up today with a super special guest who has drafted a last stake

0:51.4

quiz in his inimitable style, just for you WNYC listeners.

0:56.5

It's Puzzle Master Will Shorts.

0:58.0

You hear him on Weekend Edition Sunday.

1:00.2

You see his work as crossword editor of The New York Times.

1:03.4

Maybe you've even played ping pong with him in Westchester.

1:06.2

Who wants to try your hand?

1:07.5

It will puzzle questions for today, two, one, two, four, three, nine, six, nine, two.

1:13.7

And well, thanks so much for doing this.

1:15.5

You drew up a special puzzle challenge explicitly for WNYC listeners.

1:19.8

Today we're so grateful.

1:21.3

Thanks for coming on with it.

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