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The Indicator from Planet Money

The Indicator Quiz: The Internet

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

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4.79.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What's hotter than a leather car seat in the late summer? The Indicator Quiz! We bring a listener onto the show and test their econ knowledge. Today's quiz is all about the Internet and artificial intelligence. Play along with us and see how you do!

Are you interested in being a contestant on our next Indicator Quiz? Just email us your name and phone number at [email protected] and put "Indicator Quiz" in the subject line.

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0:00.0

N-P-R.

0:02.5

This is the Indicated from Planet Money, I'm Darren Boyd's.

0:14.4

I'm Whalen Wong, and you know what's hotter than a leather car seat in the late August

0:19.2

Sun?

0:20.2

I don't know, a frying egg on an Arizona sidewalk.

0:22.8

Oh yeah, that would definitely be hotter, but also in late summer, Indicated Quiz.

0:28.3

That's right, it's the Indicated Quiz, so hot at the moment.

0:32.2

And as always, the questions in the quiz are based on the economic ideas we've touched

0:37.4

on in previous episodes of The Indicator.

0:40.1

Everybody can play along, but there can be only one lucky person to play the quiz with

0:45.2

us.

0:46.2

So let's bring out our contestants.

0:48.2

Hi, my name is Bernard Chavez, and I'm from Brooklyn, New York.

0:51.9

Hey, Bernard.

0:53.1

And what do you do there in New York?

0:54.8

Well, I work in security in a rather large cultural institution.

0:59.6

I think you've heard of it, the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA.

1:03.0

I have been there many times.

1:04.9

Okay.

1:05.9

How much of your job is telling people not to touch stuff?

1:10.1

A lot.

1:11.1

And sometimes it becomes annoying, but you know, it's part of the deal.

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