Q 01/05

How many Pulitzer Prizes are awarded each year?

A) 50

B) 30

C) 23

D) 12

Answer · why

C) 23

Fifteen are for journalism and eight for books, drama and music.

Q 02/05

Which university administers the Pulitzer Prizes?

A) Yale

B) Columbia

C) Harvard

D) Princeton

Answer · why

B) Columbia

Joseph Pulitzer's bequest also founded and endowed the university's School of Journalism.

Q 03/05

In which year were the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded?

A) 1917

B) 1911

C) 1901

D) 1925

Answer · why

A) 1917

They were established under Pulitzer's will after his death in 1911 and are now announced each May.

Q 04/05

Joseph Pulitzer was born in which country?

A) Austria

B) Germany

C) Hungary

D) Poland

Answer · why

C) Hungary

He was born in Makó, about 200 kilometres south-east of Budapest, in 1847.

Q 05/05

Since the 2017 awards, how much money accompanies each Pulitzer certificate?

A) $10,000

B) $25,000

C) $50,000

D) $15,000

Answer · why

D) $15,000

The one exception is Public Service, whose winning news organisation receives a gold medal instead.