It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. We are in our annual

Fall membership drive and during the beginning of this 11 a.m. hour of the show every day during

the drive, we're bringing back this perennial favorite aloostakes pop quiz for a little

most the educational fun. We did a climate quiz on Tuesday, a population quiz on Wednesday

and other things like that. Today we are thrilled to have joining us for this. The person who

actually does this kind of thing on NPR stations around the country and who I shouldn't even

be mentioned in the same breath as when it comes to public radio news quizzes. None other

than Peter Segal, host of NPR's, wait, wait, don't tell me, wait, wait, we'll be doing

two nights at Carnegie Hall here in the city, Thursday, December 14th and Friday, December

15th. For right now we'll call this the news of the week plus things you may or may not

know about Peter Segal quiz who wants to play. Get two in a row right and you'll win a

Brian Laird Show baseball cap, 212433 WNYC, call up and get in line. We have a few open

lines. 212433 9692. And hi, Peter, thanks for coming on for a few minutes today. Welcome

back to WNYC. It's always a pleasure, Brian. I should tell you though that I am in no

position myself to be answering any questions about the news. I had taken the week off from

wait wait and because I have an almost three year old at home who I've pitched in doing

my best to help take care of all I know about is dinosaurs. I am ready to answer any questions

you might have about dinosaurs. And you know, given how long I've been doing this, Brian,

it might be kind of weirdly appropriate that that's my expertise, a little self knowledge.

I thought dinosaurs were hoax. Oh no, no, it turns out that I've got a number of books

that indicate they were quite real. Although if you were to talk to my son, he would tell

you that many dinosaurs despite their reputation as terrible predators, we're actually

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