The Brian Lehrer Show: Trivial Knowledge

The Brian Lehrer Show

Trivial Knowledge

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Lil’ Kim and Kim Jong-il ((Getty Images))

A new poll says Americans know more about pop culture than they do about news. Test your knowledge of both with guest host Mike Pesca and humorist Andy Borowitz in a combined news/trivia quiz. Do you know more about Judge Judy than Judge Roberts? Also, five years after the 9/11 attacks, “What Have We Learned about Osama Bin Laden?” with terrorism expert Peter Bergen and Juan Williams says “Enough”!; and Marines are facing involuntary recall to active duty.

Deja Vu

Larry Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration and retired naval reserve captain
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Julian Barnes, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
-on the involuntary recall to active duty of the Marines ...

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Trivial Knowledge

Bob Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television and professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University and author, Television in the Antenna Age (Blackwell, 2005)
- talks about a new Zogby Poll that shows that Americans know much more about pop culture than news ...

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What Have We Learned About Osama bin Laden?

Peter Bergen, CNN's terrorism analyst and author, The Osama bin Laden I Know: an Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader (Free Press,2006)
- discusses what we have learned about Osama bin Laden in the last five years

» Peter Bergen's website

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Enough is Enough

Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and author, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It (Crown, 2006).
- why he thinks Black America has lost its way

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