Q 01/05

In which Australian city was Rupert Murdoch born in 1931?

A) Adelaide

B) Sydney

C) Perth

D) Melbourne

Answer · why

D) Melbourne

His father Sir Keith was a war correspondent turned newspaper magnate; his mother Dame Elisabeth lived to 103 and had 74 descendants at 102.

Q 02/05

What was Rupert Murdoch's actual first name at birth?

A) John

B) Patrick

C) Arthur

D) Keith

Answer · why

D) Keith

He was named after his father; his grandfather Patrick John Murdoch was a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister who emigrated in 1884.

Q 03/05

What nickname did Murdoch earn at Oxford, where he kept a bust of Lenin in his rooms?

A) Red Rupert

B) Citizen Rupert

C) Rupert the Bear

D) The Digger

Answer · why

A) Red Rupert

He read PPE at Worcester College, joined the university Labour Party and ran the publishing house behind the student paper Cherwell.

Q 04/05

For which London newspaper did Murdoch work as a sub-editor for two years after his father's death?

A) The Evening Standard

B) The Daily Mirror

C) The Daily Express

D) The Daily Mail

Answer · why

C) The Daily Express

He returned home at 21 to run what was left of the family business, News Limited, founded in 1923.

Q 05/05

In which city was the small newspaper, The News, that Murdoch took over from his late father in 1952?

A) Brisbane

B) Canberra

C) Hobart

D) Adelaide

Answer · why

D) Adelaide

His father's Herald stake had to be sold to pay taxes; the paper became the base for everything that followed.