Q 01/05

Which CNN anchor ended a Celebrity Jeopardy! round $4,600 in the red and lost to comedian Andy Richter?

A) Fareed Zakaria

B) Jake Tapper

C) Wolf Blitzer

D) Don Lemon

Answer · why

C) Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer had to be handed $1,000 just to take part in Final Jeopardy!, and he finished the 2009 game with $2,000.

Q 02/05

Which deep-voiced actor recorded the three-word station identification that CNN began airing in 1990?

A) James Earl Jones

B) Samuel L. Jackson

C) Dennis Haysbert

D) Sam Elliott

Answer · why

A) James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, first recorded the line for the network's tenth anniversary, and CNN kept using it for more than three dec...

Q 03/05

Which US president's hospital visit to shooting victim Vernon Jordan was CNN's first news story?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Ronald Reagan

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was in the White House when CNN signed on in June 1980, five months before he lost the presidency to Ronald Reagan.

Q 04/05

CNN alone could report live from a Baghdad hotel as the bombing began in which conflict?

A) Iraq War

B) Iran–Iraq War

C) Kosovo War

D) Gulf War

Answer · why

D) Gulf War

The Gulf War scoop relied on a private phone line to Amman, which left CNN the only outlet able to report from inside Iraq during the first hours of t...

Q 05/05

CNN was the only news network live on air when which space shuttle broke apart after launch?

A) Challenger

B) Columbia

C) Enterprise

D) Discovery

Answer · why

A) Challenger

Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after lift-off in January 1986, and for years CNN's broadcast was the only known footage filmed from the launch si...