Los Angeles Times Quiz: Test Your Knowledge Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Kappe Residence, described as "a virtual tree house poised over a steep hillside", was named one of the top ten houses in Los Angeles by an expert panel selected by the Los Angeles Times.

the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1914 that American football player Walter Rheinschild had been rated as "the highest salaried amateur athlete in the business".

the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church (pictured) might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh".

when Elton Wieman moved east to play football for the University of Michigan in 1915, the Los Angeles Times called it "a calamity of almost national importance".

in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper.

in 1915, Hollywood actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter".

Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine".

a Los Angeles Times music critic credited Los Angeles Philharmonic director Ernest Fleischmann with having "transformed a provincial second-rank orchestra into one of the world's best".

a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant.

critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described "The Other Woman" as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost.

Bill Stall of the Los Angeles Times won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials the Pulitzer board said "served as a model for addressing complex state issues".

Los Angeles Times Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

1 When was Los Angeles Times founded?

2 What type of thing is Los Angeles Times?

3 Bettina Boxall, ________, 2009

4 ________, Washington bureau chief

5 Where are the headquarters of Los Angeles Times?

6 Which of the following languages is spoken in Los Angeles Times?

7 Editions included a Ventura County edition, an Inland Empire edition, a San Diego County edition, and a "National Edition" that was distributed to Washington, D.C. and the ________.

8 Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the ________ due to its geographic and cultural distance.

9 The Times has also come under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the ________ comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip Brevity, while retaining the Sunday edition.

10 He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, notably ________ and Washington Post.

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