Yellow Journalism Quiz Questions and Answers
1. When was Joseph Pulitzer born?
a) 14 January 1844
b) 10 April 1847
c) 23 August 1849
d) 30 December 1845
2. When was William Randolph Hearst born?
a) 4 February 1874
b) 29 April 1863
c) 15 July 1859
d) 11 November 1855
3. When did Joseph Pulitzer buy New York World?
a) 1872
b) 1875
c) 1867
d) 1883
1. Whose portrait appears on $1 note?
a) John Kennedy
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) George Washington
d) Andrew Johnson
2. Whose portrait appears on $2 note?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) Peter Lawford
c) John Adams
d) Woodrow Wilson
3. Whose portrait appears on $5 note?
a) William Cavendish
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) James Monroe
d) Martin Van Buren
1. Where was William Smellie born?
a) Gloucester
b) Edinburgh
c) Birmingham
d) Falkirk
2. Who asked William Smellie to prepare Encyclopaedia Britannica for the press?
a) George Gleig
b) James Millar
c) Horace Hooper
d) Andrew Bell
3. When was William Smellie a founder of Newtonian Society?
a) 1748
b) 1760
c) 1752
d) 1756
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2017 for Medicine?
a) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael Young
b) Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch
c) Niels Ryberg Finsen
d) Barbara McClintock
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2017 for Medicine given?
a) Discovery of genetic transposition
b) Contribution to treatment of lupus vulgaris
c) Observation of animal behaviour patterns
d) Discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2017 for Physics?
a) Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank, Igor Tamm
b) Alfred Kastler
c) Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, Kip Stephen Thorne
d) Donald Arthur Glaser
1. When was Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe?
A. 1964-1974
B. 1987-2017
C. 1972-1976
D. 1966-1968
2. When was Robert Mugabe born?
A. 21 February 1924
B. 5 April 1920
C. 22 August 1922
D. 28 December 1925
3. Where was Robert Mugabe born?
A. Lusaka
B. Windhoek
C. Kutama
D. Durban
(This quiz is about Francis Bacon the author.)
1. When was Francis Bacon born?
a) 22 January 1561
b) 4 May 1549
c) 16 July 1548
d) 11 November 1564
2. Where was Francis Bacon born?
a) Liverpool
b) London
c) Cambridge
d) Paris
3. Where did Francis Bacon study law?
a) Inner Temple
b) Middle Temple
c) Lincoln’s Inn
d) Gray’s Inn
1) What is the specific gravity of Saturn?
a) 1
b) 0.7
c) 1.7
d) 7
2) Which is the outermost ring of Saturn?
a) A ring
b) D ring
c) F ring
d) E ring
3) Who is Saturn in mythology?
a) God of Industry
b) Goddess of Earth
c) God of Agriculture
d) Goddess of Hunting
(This quiz is about Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.)
1. When was Sveriges Riksbank Prize first given?
a) 1912
b) 1969
c) 1948
d) 1976
2. Who won Sveriges Riksbank Prize in 1970?
a) Paul Samuelson
b) Ragnar Frisch
c) Jan Tinbergen
d) Simon Kuznets
3. When did Leonid Kantorovich win Sveriges Riksbank Prize?
a) 1972
b) 1967
c) 1975
d) 1985