QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

1. Which country boasts the World’s best selling Newspaper, with up to 14 million sales per day?
Japan
2. Which british newspaper was the first to issue a colour supplement in its Sunday edition?
The Sunday Times
3. For many years Fred Basset has been a regular cartoon in which UK newspaper?
Daily Mail
4. Which British newspaper sacked its editor and admitted that the photographs he published of British soldiers apparently abusing an Iraqi detainee were fake?
Daily Mirror
5. Which British national daily newspaper ceased publication in 1995?
Today - founded by Eddie Shah in 1986 and finally closed in 1995
- In 1986, which daily newspaper became the first to be printed in colour?
Today
6. What is the oldest serving British Daily Newspaper?
The Times
7. Which national daily newspaper has "The crusader" as it’s logo
Daily Express
8. In a Newspaper, what would you find in a Morris Column?
Advertisements
9. Stick It Up Your Punter is the title of a history of which newspaper?
The Sun
10. What is the best-selling daily newspaper in the USA?
Wall Street Journal
11. Seen virtually every day in every newspaper, what did Arthur Wayne invent in 1913?
Crossword
12. Which place in New York was funded by and named after a newspaper?
Times Square
13. Le Soir is an international newspaper published from which European capital city?
Brussels
14. In which year did “The "Sun", "Times" and "Sunday Times" newspapers owned by News International moved from Fleet street to Wapping?
1986
15. Which is Britain’s oldest sunday newspaper?
Observer
16. What is the name of The Sun newspaper’s comic-strip Viking?
Hagar The Horrible
17. Which national newspaper does not include sport in it’s coverage?
Financial Times
18. Which sport is the newspaper ‘Sporting Life’ dedicated to?
Horseracing
19. The actor Ross Kemp is married to the editor of which newspaper?
The Sun (Rebecca Wade)
20. In the media industry – what name is given to the machine used to print a newspaper?
Press

21. Which current Sunday newspaper used to be called the Sunday Pictorial, before it adopted its current name in 1963?
Sunday Mirror
22. Which current daily newspaper was first published in 1978?
Daily Star
23. What is the name of the local newspaper in ‘Emmerdale’?
Hotten Courier
24. In Which Newspaper does Andy Capp Appear in?
The Mirror
25. Which national daily newspaper is nicknamed “The Thunderer”?
The Times
26. Name the cartoon character, described as a ‘Belgian boy scout’ who first appeared in a newspaper in 1929?
Tintin - created by Herge
27. Which daily newspaper has the sub-title “The Voice Of Britain”?
Daily Express
- In which UK daily newspaper does the cartoon strip, Rupert the Bear, currently appear?
Daily Express
28. Which newspaper comic strip features four children and a large dog called Boot?
The Perishers
29. Which British newspaper advertises itself as ‘ the biggest selling quality newspaper’?
Daily Telegraph
- Which was the first British daily newspaper to publish a Sudoku puzzle?
Daily Telegraph
30. Which was Britain’s first tabloid daily newspaper?
Daily Mirror - 1903
31. In a newspaper which column announces deaths?
Obituaries
32. What is the name of the local newspaper in Eastenders?
The Walford Gazette
33. Which British newspaper claims “all human life is there” in its contents?
News Of The World
34. In which daily newspaper does the comic strip ‘Beau Peep’ appear?
Daily Star
35. Which British National Daily Newspaper was the first to publish listings of TV programs for readers?
Daily Express
36. What is the name of the newspaper in the town of Bedrock?
Daily Slate - The Flintstones
37. In "Spiderman", what is the name of the newspaper where Peter Parker works as a photographer?
Daily Bugle
38. Who was the editor of the Daily Planet newspaper in Superman?
Perry White
39. If a house advertised in a newspaper had the initials SSTC stamped over it, for what would these initials stand?
Sold Subject to Contract
40. Which newspaper started the first national bingo game in 1981?
Daily Star
- Which newspaper was the first to offer a £1 million on their daily bingo game?
Daily Mirror

Tiebreaker - In which year were newspaper horoscopes first published?
1930