Q 01/05

Time named Turner its Man of the Year for 1991 after CNN's live coverage of which war?

A) The Falklands War

B) The Gulf War

C) The Bosnian War

D) The Iran-Iraq War

Answer · why

B) The Gulf War

The Gulf War. Viewers around the world watched it unfold on CNN, and Time said the network had changed news from something that has happened into some...

Q 02/05

Which American broadcast network did Turner try, and fail, to take over in 1985?

A) ABC

B) NBC

C) Fox

D) CBS

Answer · why

D) CBS

CBS. The network spent about $1 billion buying back its own shares to keep him out; within a year Turner had bought the MGM film studio instead.

Q 03/05

Why was Turner expelled from Brown University before graduating?

A) He punched a professor

B) He was caught cheating in an exam

C) He had a female student in his dorm room

D) He ran an illegal radio station

Answer · why

C) He had a female student in his dorm room

He had a female student in his dorm room, the reason usually given, though Brown had other grievances against him too. Thirty years later the universi...

Q 04/05

What kind of business did Turner take over from his father in March 1963, after his father's suicide?

A) Billboard advertising

B) Radio stations

C) A chain of newspapers

D) A shipping line

Answer · why

A) Billboard advertising

Billboard advertising. Shortly before his death his father had agreed to sell off the firm's best territory; Ted, 24, refused to accept a smaller comp...

Q 05/05

In which branch of the military did Turner serve to fulfil his national service obligation?

A) Coast Guard Reserve

B) Marine Corps

C) Navy Reserve

D) Air National Guard

Answer · why

A) Coast Guard Reserve

Coast Guard Reserve. Its six-month programme spared him a two-year draft and suited a young man already mad about sailing; he trained at Cape May, New...