Q 01/05

Around 1440, in which German city did Johannes Gutenberg develop the movable-type printing press?

A) Mainz

B) Nuremberg

C) Cologne

D) Frankfurt

Answer · why

A) Mainz

Movable type already existed in East Asia; Gutenberg's press, oil-based ink and casting moulds are what made printing fast. About 180 copies of his 42...

Q 02/05

The Relation, recognised as the world's first newspaper, began printing in 1605 in which city?

A) Venice

B) Antwerp

C) Strasbourg

D) London

Answer · why

C) Strasbourg

Johann Carolus, a bookbinder turned printer, got his news from postmen and traders; some historians grumble that its book-like format makes it a 'news...

Q 03/05

Benjamin Day's New York Sun, launched in 1833, was the first successful newspaper of what kind?

A) A penny paper

B) A Sunday paper

C) An evening paper

D) An illustrated paper

Answer · why

A) A penny paper

At one cent it cost a sixth of its rivals, was sold on the street by newsboys and paid its way with advertising rather than subscriptions, a model new...

Q 04/05

The term 'yellow journalism' grew out of an 1890s circulation war between which two New York publishers?

A) Adolph Ochs and Horace Greeley

B) James Gordon Bennett and Benjamin Day

C) Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

D) Henry Luce and Condé Nast

Answer · why

C) Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

The name comes from the Yellow Kid, a comic-strip character who appeared first in one paper and then the other; historians now doubt the papers actual...

Q 05/05

Which university administers the Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer?

A) Harvard

B) Northwestern

C) Yale

D) Columbia

Answer · why

D) Columbia

There are 23 prizes; each carries 15,000 dollars except one, which is the only one given to a news organisation and comes with a gold medal.