Q 01/05

Which rapper won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music?

A) Kendrick Lamar

B) J. Cole

C) Travis Scott

D) Chance the Rapper

Answer · why

A) Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar: earlier that year DAMN. had lost the Grammy for album of the year, yet it went on to win him the Pulitzer.

Q 02/05

Which university administers the Pulitzer Prizes?

A) Yale

B) Columbia

C) Harvard

D) Princeton

Answer · why

B) Columbia

Columbia: its president Seth Low turned down Pulitzer's 1892 offer to fund a journalism school, and only his successor Nicholas Murray Butler embraced...

Q 03/05

Which World War II photograph won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography?

A) The Reichstag flag raising

B) The Iwo Jima flag raising

C) V-J Day in Times Square

D) Into the Jaws of Death

Answer · why

B) The Iwo Jima flag raising

The Iwo Jima flag raising: Joe Rosenthal's shot of Marines hoisting the flag on Mount Suribachi became the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial.

Q 04/05

Joseph Pulitzer was born in which country?

A) Czech Republic

B) Germany

C) Hungary

D) Poland

Answer · why

C) Hungary

Hungary: born in Makó, he tried to join the Austrian army, the French Foreign Legion and the British army, and all three turned him down.

Q 05/05

Which Sinclair Lewis novel about an idealistic young doctor won a 1926 Pulitzer Prize that he refused?

A) Babbitt

B) Arrowsmith

C) Elmer Gantry

D) Dodsworth

Answer · why

B) Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith: Lewis turned the prize down, arguing such awards corrupt writers, yet in 1930 he accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature.