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Brian Lehrer: It's The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. As I said before the news, again, this membership drive, we're doing a 10-question quiz each day at around this time during the eleven o'clock hour. Get two in a row right, and today you'll win a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or the new I Stand With WNYC T-shirt.
Who wants to play? We have a really fun one today, as well as an educational one, which is always also the point. Should I even need to say it out loud? It's a history quiz today called Who Said That? It's mostly built around sound bites, some drawn from our 100 Years of 100 Things history series, some from other history sources. High praise to our producer Carl Boisrond, who dug through so much audio to make this fun little quiz. Who wants to play Who Said That? 212-433-WNYC, 433-9692. Phil in Manhattan, you're ready to play?
Phil: Hi, Brian. Yes, I am.
Brian Lehrer: Okay. The first one doesn't have a sound bite. This is just a warm-up question to just make sure you're awake. Who said this? Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Who said that?
Phil: Abraham Lincoln.
Brian Lehrer: From the Gettysburg Address. For the hat or the T-shirt, we have a clip, so listen closely. It's an old clip.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Brian Lehrer: Phil, who said that?
Phil: Another great president, FDR.
Brian Lehrer: Starting off in an easy lane to establish the idea of the quiz, Phil, would you like a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or would you like an I Stand With WNYC T-shirt?
Phil: I'll take the T-shirt. It's funny, I just made a donation and I declined the gift so everything could go to WNYC, but now I will take-
Brian Lehrer: Karma-
Phil: -the shirt.
Brian Lehrer: -comes around with a thank you, Phil, hang on. We'll take your address off the air. Sarah in Manhattan, you're on WNYC. Hi, Sarah. Ready to play?
Sarah: I am. I knew the answers to those questions, so I hope I still know the answers to these.
Brian Lehrer: This one might be a little harder, and it's much more contemporary. I'll give you the year. It was 2019.
Greta Thunberg: People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.
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Brian Lehrer: Definitely an iconic clip of the last decade, but do you know it?
Sarah: Well, I know that it was the young woman who has been the voice of environmentalism for everybody for many, many years, but I'm having trouble pulling out the name.
Brian Lehrer: Well, I'm going to take that as good enough because you definitely nailed exactly who it was in the way that matters. The name is Greta Thunberg.
Sarah: Thank you.
Brian Lehrer: She was just 16 when she delivered that speech. This one, back in time again, 1954. Maybe harder again, but let's see.
Joseph Welch: Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Brian Lehrer: You could say who the speaker was or who the speaker was addressing.
Sarah: The speaker was addressing McCarthy, but, again, I can't quite remember his name.
Brian Lehrer: Well, that's it. His name, as you earn your fanfare, his name, Joseph Welch, who was the senator who said that, or who was the witness who said that. I'm actually not even sure if he was a senator or not. His name is kind of forgotten to history, more or less. People think of Edward R. Murrow from CBS standing up to McCarthy but still, it was that moment from what was known as the Army-McCarthy hearings that was also so pivotal and yes, of course, addressing Joe McCarthy. Would you, Sarah in Manhattan, like The Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or the I Stand with WNYC T-shirt?
Sarah: I will take the hat. I appreciate your willingness to give my 80-some-year-old memory without no names, just sort of general ideas of what. I think Welch was the counsel to the committee. I can remember that part.
Brian Lehrer: Oh, maybe that's right. See that? You know it more than me.
Sarah: Just pieces, no name. [laughs]
Brian Lehrer: Thank you very much. Well, your 80-plus-year-old memory is remembering what's important. David in Windsor Terrace, ready to play?
David: Absolutely.
Brian Lehrer: Question 5 in this 10-question quiz. Make sure you're listening. I think you'll recognize this person.
Martin Luther King Jr.: We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop.
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Brian Lehrer: Whose singular voice was that, David in Windsor Terrace, if you know?
David: One of my heroes, Martin Luther King Jr. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Brian Lehrer: Absolutely. In his very last speech before he was killed, April 3rd, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. All right. Next up, I'll give you the year. 1961, January 17, which itself is a clue. Here we go.
Eisenhower: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex.
Brian Lehrer: Do you know it?
David: Yes, that's Eisenhower.
Brian Lehrer: That's Eisenhower. The military-industrial complex. What a thing, looking back for a Republican or any president of the United States to give his farewell address three days before the next guy is inaugurated by warning against the military-industrial complex in this country. That's what happened in 1961. Would you like a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or an I Stand With WNYC T-shirt, David?
David: It's a hard choice, but my wife will be appalled that I'm going to get another baseball cap. I'll take the cap.
Brian Lehrer: All right, David. I won't ask you whether that goes with the Yankees cap or whether with your Mets cap, but I can say that Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap is blue. It's neither Yankees blue nor Mets blue, to show how-- What's the word? Is ecumenical the right word? I don't know. To show how inclusive we are. All right. Julia, up on Cape Cod today, you're on WNYC. Ready to play?
Julia: Yes, that's terrific.
Brian Lehrer: Here we go. Question 7. Listen up.
Hillary Clinton: This is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia. This is someone who has threatened to abandon our allies in NATO, the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before they strike us at home.
Brian Lehrer: Remember her?
Julia: Sure I remember her. Hillary Clinton.
Brian Lehrer: Way back when she was campaigning in 2016. This next one is probably the most difficult one in the quiz. We will say at first, and I'll give you a clue or two after if you need it, you might detect a bit of a New York Dutch accent in this clip, performed by an actor because the actual speech was given in 1851.
Sojourner Truth: I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and I can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed. Can any man do better than that?
Brian Lehrer: Do you know it without a clue?
Julia: Sojourner Truth.
Brian Lehrer: Absolutely right. Awesome job, Julia. Note that-
Julia: Yes, thank you.
Brian Lehrer: -she did not say, "Ain't I a woman?" which is the phrase most associated with that speech and Sojourner Truth who delivered it. The clip, by the way, comes from the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee. They had an actor perform the speech as it was originally transcribed in 1851. I don't have the name of the actor, unfortunately, but there you go. Good job.
Julia: Pretty cool.
Brian Lehrer: You knew your stand with her, a woman from 2016, and you're one from 1851. Do you want a Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or an I Stand With WNYC T-shirt?
Julia: I want the baseball cap, please.
Brian Lehrer: Protecting you from the sun this summer up on the Cape. Julia, hang on. We're going to take your address off the air. We'll go next to Natal in New Brunswick. Hi, Natal. You're on WNYC. Ready to play?
Natal: Hey, Brian. Good morning.
Brian Lehrer: Okay. Question 9. Who is this?
Ronald Reagan: There are some today, who, in the name of equality, would have us practice discrimination. They've turned our civil rights laws on their head, claiming they mean exactly the opposite of what they say.
Brian Lehrer: You know?
Natal: That would be Ronald Reagan.
Brian Lehrer: That would. That's the easy one in this pair. This next one is another Republican associated with the presidency at a moment that a new phrase was coined as she spoke to NBC's Chuck Todd in 2017.
Kellyanne Conway: Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You're saying it's a falsehood. Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that, but the point remains.
Chuck Todd: Alternative facts?
Brian Lehrer: A new phrase for the era that we're still in. Eight years later, alternative facts. Who coined it?
Natal: I think that's Kellyanne Conway.
Brian Lehrer: Kellyanne Conway is right. Would you like The Brian Lehrer Show baseball cap or the I Stand With WNYC T-shirt?
Natal: I will take the baseball cap, please.
Brian Lehrer: Okay. Natal, we're going to take your address off the air. Now. That's our 10-question quiz. Carl, our producer, wrote 11 questions, and who can resist this one because of what it is? Peter in Jersey City, you're going to get a shot at a prize if you just get this one question right. Hi, Peter. You're ready?
Peter: Hi, I'm ready. I've had all the others so far.
Brian Lehrer: We'll see if you get this from 1968. Somebody who, by extension, by a few degrees of separation, is kind of a colleague who gets the last word in the quiz today.
Fred Rogers: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, won't you please? Please, won't you be my neighbor? Hi. Glad to see you today.
Brian Lehrer: Do you know, Peter?
Peter: That's Mr. Rogers. After my time, but unmistakable.
Brian Lehrer: Absolutely. Fred Rogers from the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1968. All right, Peter, baseball hat or I Stand With WNYC T-shirt?
Peter: T-shirt, please.
Brian Lehrer: The T-shirt going to Jersey City. We'll take your address off the air. That's our 10-question membership drive quiz for today. We'll do another one on another subject tomorrow. Stay with us.
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