Newspapers Quiz
The answers appear after the last question, number 13.
1. What newspaper, founded in 1872, serves northeastern New England?
a. The Cape Cod Times
b. The Boston Globe
c. The Malden Advocate
d. The Boston Voice
2. Founded in 1847, what is the dominant newspaper in Chicago?
a. The Chicago Time
b. The Windy City Reader
c. The Chicago Tribune
d. The Chicago Herald
3. Where was The Christian Science Monitor founded in 1908?
a. Paris
b. Boston
c. Rome
d. New York
4. The Detroit Free Press is the largest morning newspaper in what state?
a. Indiana
b. Arkansas
c. Illinois
d. Michigan
5. Who founded The Detroit Free Press?
a. Sheldon McKnight
b. Dan Rather
c. Henry Miller
d. Winston Wilcox, Jr.
6. Le Figaro is what country's oldest newspaper?
a. France
b. Germany
c. Italy
d. Canada
7. What California newspaper was dynamited in 1910 by union activists?
a. The Los Angeles Times
b. The Sacramento Bee
c. The San Jose Journal
d. The Hollywood Reporter
8. What year was The National Enquirer founded?
a. 1985
b. 1968
c. 1926
d. 1995
9. Who founded The New York Times in 1851?
a. Raymond Chandler
b. Henry J. Raymond
c. Benjamin Franklin, Jr.
d. Russell Baker, Sr.
10. What does the newspaper Pravda mean?
a. lie
b. truth
c. money
d. wisdom
11. Who was once the editor of Pravda?
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Rush Limbaugh
c. Eleanor Roosevelt
d. Peter Jennings
12. Norman Mailer and Jules Feiffer were once staffers at what newspaper?
a. Pravda
b. The Princeton Gazette
c. The Tampa Tribune
d. The Village Voice
13. What occupation forces founded Die Welt in 1946?
a. British
b. American
c. French
d. Russian
Answers: 1-b, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d, 5-a, 6-a, 7-a, 8-c, 9-b, 10-b, 11-a, 12-d, 13-a
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