The Faces of NPR

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Sep 1, 2009 at 11:37 am


You would probably recognize the voices of the announcers on National Public Radio, but how well do you know their faces? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss might be an exercise in futility, but you’ll soon find out what face goes with which name. I only got one right out of the 12, which just shows that I didn’t go to the NPR website and cheat! Link


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  1. Neil
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Ahh, NPR. ‘Feel-Smart Marxist Hot Air for Today’s Literate Idiot.’

  2. Neil should
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    go ahead and Bob

  3. aging hipster
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    I got 75% which just means I’m a dork who actually has spent time at the NPR website long before this quiz.

  4. Skipweasel
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    I only got one right. Since we don’t get NPR here it was entirely guesswork – but I’d have hoped to have got more than just one!

  5. regismayhem
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    I got 10 out of 12, which may make me a ‘Literate Idiot,’ though not, presumably, a venom-spewing, know-nothing, reactionary troll.

  6. aging hipster
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    @regismayhem

    You’re also likable.

  7. ted
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    Again, never even heard NPR. It’s sort of a regional Liberal thing, isn’t it?

  8. earbox
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    I got seven correct–five I actually knew, one was an educated guess, and the seventh was a wild guess. (If Scott Simon had been in the mix, I’d've gotten him, too.)

    Miss C–who was the one you knew?

  9. Miss Cellania
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Hmm, it was the one that wasn’t the Tappit Brothers. I didn’t know him, but guessed right through the process of elimination.

  10. Jay
    Sep 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    A few years ago, I ran across this neat Slate article by Dahlia Lithwick on the subject of NPR faces- http://slate.msn.com/?id=114374
    I have a feeling it wasn’t seen by many, because of the date it was published.


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