Pop Quiz: Riding the Rails
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Bryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone and it's membership drive |
| 0:15.4 | quiz time. Today a low stakes pop quiz on the subways and commuter rails. Do you think |
| 0:20.4 | you know your subways and commuter rail lines? If you think you might be able to answer |
| 0:24.7 | two subway or commuter rail questions in row right you might win a Bryan Lair Show baseball cap. |
| 0:30.6 | You can give it a shot at 212433 WNYC. You definitely do not need to be an MTA or NJ transit |
| 0:38.9 | cartographer to get these questions right and if you haven't stumbled upon one of these 11 o'clock |
| 0:44.6 | quizzes before what is this? Well we are in our annual fall membership drive and during the |
| 0:49.6 | beginning of this 11am show every day during the drive we're bringing back this perennial |
| 0:55.4 | favorite a low stakes pop quiz. We do give we don't give grades but yes we do give prizes again |
| 1:03.7 | two in a row right and you'll win the new this year Bryan Lair Show, Shambray Blue, baseball hat |
| 1:10.5 | who wants to give it a shot it's a subway and commuter rail quiz written by Bryan Lair Show |
| 1:16.5 | producer Esperanza Rosenbaum. So let's dive right in with Drew and Brooklyn. Drew |
| 1:22.2 | you're on WNYC ready to play? Yeah definitely good morning. Good morning all right I'm on the only |
| 1:30.3 | long island railroad line that doesn't go through Jamaica what line am I on? That's going to be |
| 1:37.7 | the Port Washington line is that the name of the line? That is absolutely the name of the line |
| 1:42.6 | or the branch all right I just got off the New Jersey transit train going to a concert at the |
| 1:49.4 | prudential center which train station did I arrive at? Prudential center is that Newark Penn? |
| 1:57.0 | That is Newark Penn station. How about that? You're a guy from Brooklyn you drew a long island |
| 2:03.6 | question and a New Jersey question and you got both right so Drew you have earned your Bryan Lair |
| 2:08.7 | Show baseball hat hang on we'll take your address off the phone off off the air. Mike in the |
| 2:15.9 | Bronx you're on WNYC hi Mike. Good morning Bryan. All right I'm off to Prospect Park to enjoy a walk |
| 2:25.8 | in the park followed by a movie at what was formerly known as the Park Slow Pavilion but is now |
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