National Year of Reading Quiz

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How well do you know your newspapers and magazines?

1. Citizen Kane, the title character in the 1941 film by Orson Welles was said to be based on which newspaper magnate?

William Randolph Hearst

2. Who was the first female newspaper editor in Britain?

Anna Marie Smart (Reading Mercury 1762)

3. Which newspaper owner was drowned when he fell from his boat?

Robert Maxwell

4. Who was the editor of the Daily Planet where Clark Kent (Superman) worked?

Perry White

5. Who is the editor of Vogue magazine on which the character played by Meryl Streep in the film The Devil Wears Prada was supposed to be based?

Anna Wintour

6. Which newspaper editor was fired for using faked photographs and is now a talent show judge?

Piers Morgan

7. Who launched the first national colour daily paper - and what was it called?

Eddie Shah - Today

8. Which film of 1941 featured a newspaper editor and his ex-wife? It was a remake of an earlier film, a version of which was again remade in 1974.

His Girl Friday

9. On which newspaper were reporters Bernstein and Woodward working when they broke the 'Watergate' story that eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon?

The Washington Post

10. What was published for the first time in 'The Times' in 1842?

A photograph