Q 01/05

Until 3 May 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 — small notices aimed at the moneyed classes — held the front page until news took over on 3 May 1966, on a paper that had b...

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, a Republican-leaning paper that had once called Truman a 'nincompoop', went to press early with the wrong result; Truman po...

Q 03/05

Clifford Berryman's 1902 Washington Post cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt sparing a captive animal inspired which toy?

A) The Raggedy Ann doll

B) The teddy bear

C) The Kewpie doll

D) The Slinky

Answer · why

B) The teddy bear

The teddy bear was created by New York shopkeeper Morris Michtom after he saw Berryman's 'Drawing the Line in Mississippi', in which Roosevelt spares ...

Q 04/05

Charles Schulz died in February 2000 — how long before the last original Peanuts Sunday strip appeared in print?

A) A year earlier

B) A month earlier

C) One day earlier

D) A week earlier

Answer · why

C) One day earlier

One day earlier: Schulz died on 12 February 2000 and the final strip ran on 13 February, closing a run of 17,897 strips that has been called the longe...

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: Abby was born Pauline Esther Friedman and her twin was born Esther Pauline Friedman, and the two ran competing syndicated advice columns...