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Exploring the World of Newspapers

This quiz evaluates knowledge on the history, structure, and technological advancements related to newspapers around the globe.

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1 The advent of the ________ has also allowed the non-English newspapers to put out a scaled-down English version to give their newspaper a global outreach.

2 ________: half the size of broadsheets at 380 mm by 300 mm (15 by 11¾ inches), and often perceived as sensationalist in contrast to broadsheets.

3 For example, someone might want only a Sunday paper, or perhaps only Sunday and Saturday, or maybe only a ________ subscription, or perhaps a daily subscription.

4 What does the following picture show?   American newspaper vending machine featuring news of the 1984 Summer Olympics.   Diario de Pernambuco, founded in 1825 is the first newspaper in all South America.   Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.   Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, seen in its Hebrew and English editions

5 According to United Nations data from 1995, Japan has three daily papers —the Yomiuri Shimbun, ________, and Mainichi Shimbun — with circulations well above 5.5 million.

6 A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and ________.

7 The first newspaper in Portugal, A Gazeta, was published in 1645 in ________.

8 The first newspaper in ________ was published in 1631, La Gazette (originally published as Gazette de France).

9 In 1814, The Times (________) acquired a printing press capable of making 1,100 impressions per minute.

10 [13] Advances in printing technology related to the ________ enabled newspapers to become an even more widely circulated means of communication.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson, who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind.
  • the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons.
  • the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000.
  • publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer.
  • nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS's Petticoat Junction, Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford's short-lived NBC sitcom, Dear Phoebe.
  • a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper.
  • historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the Tulsa race riot, but all copies of that page of the newspaper have apparently disappeared.
  • in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language.
  • the Brabants Dagblad, a regional Dutch newspaper, was founded in 1771 and is one of the oldest papers in the country.
  • the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is the farthest north daily newspaper in North America.
  • the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi.
  • the regional newspaper of Wagga Wagga, The Daily Advertiser, was first published in 1868, making it one of the oldest in Australia.
  • two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia, the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988.
  • the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia.
  • the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper.
  • the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States.
  • the Leeuwarder Courant, founded in 1752, is the oldest still-existing newspaper in the Netherlands.
  • the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849.
  • a feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story.
  • The Town Talk, the principal newspaper of Central Louisiana, was established by Irish immigrants on St. Patrick's Day in 1883.
  • Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
  • Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead.
  • Julio A. Garcia, called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo, Texas, once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court.
  • Edmund Graves Brown, a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
  • Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper.
  • Peter the Great was the principal editor of the Vedomosti, the first newspaper printed in Russia.
  • publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America.
  • Taiwan's first printed newspaper, the Taiwan Church News, was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, not Chinese characters.
  • Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper.
  • Tam Spiva, from a family of small-town newspaper publishers, wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben.
  • Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran, and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper.
  • Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway.
  • The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean, was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers.
  • Gazette de Leyde was likely the most important newspaper of the late 18th-century Europe, and the only one read by Louis XVI.
  • al-Karmil, an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization".
  • W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency.
  • Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S..
  • Leon Wasilewski of the Polish Socialist Party learned Yiddish in order to be able to edit the party's Yiddish-language newspaper Der arbeyter.
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