Q 01/05

In which German city did Gutenberg print his 42-line Bible in the 1450s?

A) Mainz

B) Nuremberg

C) Cologne

D) Frankfurt

Answer · why

A) Mainz

Gutenberg printed the 42-line Bible at Mainz, his home city on the Rhine; about 180 copies were finished around 1455 using his oil-based ink and hand-...

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 Strasbourg bookbinder turned printer, gathered news from postmen and traders for the Relation; some historians call its book-like fo...

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

A penny paper, the Sun cost one cent, a sixth of its six-cent rivals; newsboys hawked it on the street and advertising, not subscriptions, paid its wa...

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

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst fought over the Yellow Kid, a comic strip Hearst lured away from Pulitzer's World in 1896; historians now ...

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

Columbia University in New York administers the prizes, which Pulitzer's will endowed along with the university's journalism school; the Pulitzer boar...