Q 01/05

Until 1966, what filled the front page of The Times of London instead of news?

A) The Court Circular

B) Stock market prices

C) Classified advertisements

D) Letters to the editor

Answer · why

C) Classified advertisements

Classified advertisements had the front page to themselves until 1966, when news finally took over. Later that same year the Astor family agreed to se...

Q 02/05

Which paper's 1948 headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman' was gleefully held aloft by the re-elected president?

A) Chicago Daily Tribune

B) St. Louis Post-Dispatch

C) Detroit Free Press

D) Cleveland Plain Dealer

Answer · why

A) Chicago Daily Tribune

The Chicago Daily Tribune, which had called Truman a 'nincompoop', had to go to press hours early because of a printers' strike, and it trusted the po...

Q 03/05

Clifford Berryman's 1902 Washington Post cartoon, which inspired the teddy bear, showed Theodore Roosevelt refusing to do what?

A) Wear a bearskin coat

B) Shoot a tethered bear

C) Keep a pet cub

D) Cage a wild bear

Answer · why

B) Shoot a tethered bear

Shoot a tethered bear: his guides had tied one to a tree on a Mississippi hunt, and he called the idea unsporting. Brooklyn shopkeeper Morris Michtom ...

Q 04/05

Charles Schulz died at what point before his final original Peanuts strip appeared in newspapers in February 2000?

A) One day earlier

B) One week earlier

C) One month earlier

D) One year earlier

Answer · why

A) One day earlier

One day earlier: Schulz, who had announced his retirement shortly before because of colon cancer, died in his sleep the night before the farewell stri...

Q 05/05

Rival advice columnists 'Dear Abby' (Pauline Phillips) and Ann Landers (Esther Lederer) were what to each other?

A) Mother and daughter

B) First cousins

C) College roommates

D) Twin sisters

Answer · why

D) Twin sisters

Twin sisters, born Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Friedman, who even married on the same day in a joint ceremony. When 'Dear Abby' followed Ann Lan...