Dana Perino, the top White House spokeswoman, very recently didn’t know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, according to her own admission, which is now gaining national attention.

Appearing on an episode of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me, which aired over the weekend, Perino recalled a recent White House briefing when a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and she didn’t know what it was.

“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about…the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said the 35-year-old Perino. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”

“I came home, and I asked my husband,” she recalled. “I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ His response: “Oh, Dana.”