Magazines That Were Ahead of Their Time
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Q 01Which editor ran Vogue from 1963 to 1971 after writing the 'Why Don't You...?' column at Harper's Bazaar?
- AAnna Wintour
- BDiana Vreeland
- CCarmel Snow
- DGrace Mirabella
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Diana Vreeland
One of her most-quoted 'Why Don't You...?' suggestions was to wash a blond child's hair in dead champagne. After Vogue she became a consultant to the Met's Costume Institute.
Q 02Which old humor magazine's name did Henry Luce buy for $92,000 in 1936 for his new photo weekly?
- ALook
- BCollier's
- CLIFE
- DThe Saturday Evening Post
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LIFE
The first issue cost ten cents and opened with five pages of Alfred Eisenstaedt photographs. Luce's stated mission was simply 'to see life; to see the world.'
Q 03Bon Appétit, now a Condé Nast food magazine, began life in Chicago in 1956 as what?
- AA liquor store giveaway
- BA hotel-room brochure
- CA newspaper Sunday insert
- DA cookware catalog
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A liquor store giveaway
It stayed a freebie until a later owner converted it into a subscription monthly, which is how it survives today.
Q 04Who was Sports Illustrated's first Sportsman of the Year, in 1954?
- ARocky Marciano
- BWillie Mays
- CBen Hogan
- DRoger Bannister
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Roger Bannister
Bannister's 3:59.4 mile that May was the first ever run under four minutes. The magazine itself lost money for its first 12 years.
Q 05Which US magazine, launched in 1845 as a four-page weekly, is the country's oldest continuously published?
- AScientific American
- BPopular Mechanics
- CNational Geographic
- DPopular Science
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Scientific American
Founder Rufus Porter sold it within a year to Orson Munn and Alfred Beach; Beach went on to build New York's first, pneumatic-powered, subway prototype under Broadway in 1870.
Q 06Which magazine devoted its entire 31 August 1946 issue to John Hersey's 'Hiroshima'?
- ATime
- BLIFE
- CThe New Yorker
- DHarper's Bazaar
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The New Yorker
The 31,000-word piece follows six survivors through the day of the bomb. Its cover gave no hint of the contents, showing a cheerful summer picnic scene.
Q 07Which computer magazine, launched in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1975, was famed for Robert Tinney's surreal covers?
- APC Magazine
- BWired
- CPopular Electronics
- DByte
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Byte
Tinney's covers ran from December 1975 to September 1990. The magazine took the technical high road, covering software and hardware in depth rather than writing for casual users.
Q 08Which magazine's first issue, December 1953, carried no date because its founder doubted there would be a second?
- AEsquire
- BPlayboy
- CCosmopolitan
- DGQ
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Playboy
The Monroe photograph had actually been shot for a calendar years earlier. The undated issue sold out within weeks with a circulation of about 54,000 copies.
Q 09Which Stewart Brand publication did Steve Jobs call 'Google in paperback form' in his 2005 Stanford speech?
- AMother Earth News
- BThe Whole Earth Catalog
- CPopular Science
- DThe Farmer's Almanac
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The Whole Earth Catalog
Jobs closed the speech with the farewell message printed on the back cover of the catalog's last 1974 edition: 'Stay hungry. Stay foolish.'
Q 10Which feminist magazine co-founded by Gloria Steinem began as a one-off insert in New York magazine in 1971?
- ABust
- BBitch
- CMs.
- DSassy
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Ms.
The preview issue also generated 26,000 subscription orders within weeks. The title itself pushed a then-uncommon honorific that revealed nothing about a woman's marital status.
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