Q 01/05

Which first name was Edward R. Murrow given at birth, before he swapped it for Edward?

A) Ebenezer

B) Egbert

C) Ezekiel

D) Elmer

Answer · why

B) Egbert

Egbert was the name his parents gave him, though friends already called him Ed in his teens. He went by Edward for the rest of his life.

Q 02/05

During the German bombing of London, Edward R. Murrow broadcast live air-raid reports to America from where?

A) A subway platform

B) A church crypt

C) A hotel cellar

D) A rooftop

Answer · why

D) A rooftop

A rooftop put the real sound of anti-aircraft guns on American radios. British officials had resisted at first, fearing a live report could guide Germ...

Q 03/05

Which 2005 black-and-white film dramatizes Edward R. Murrow's on-air clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy?

A) Good Night, and Good Luck

B) All the President's Men

C) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

D) The Manchurian Candidate

Answer · why

A) Good Night, and Good Luck

Good Night, and Good Luck takes its title from the phrase he used to close his broadcasts. Shot on color film stock, it was converted to black-and-whi...

Q 04/05

Edward R. Murrow was a White House dinner guest of the Roosevelts on the very day of which wartime event?

A) The fall of France

B) The D-Day landings

C) The Pearl Harbor attack

D) The Battle of Stalingrad

Answer · why

C) The Pearl Harbor attack

The Pearl Harbor attack did not cancel his invitation, and Roosevelt told him after dinner that American losses were far heavier than reported. Murrow...

Q 05/05

Which British prime minister offered Edward R. Murrow a top BBC programming job during World War II?

A) Clement Attlee

B) Winston Churchill

C) Anthony Eden

D) Neville Chamberlain

Answer · why

B) Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill offered in 1943 to make the American joint Director-General of the BBC, in charge of programming. Murrow turned the job down.