News Quizzes with Answers
Questions featuring news events and the news as provided through many different media.
Quiz I
- An estimated global audience of 750 million watched which event in 1981?
- In which year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Bob Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein to report on which famous event?
- Who, from 1972 to 1989, was the long-serving presenter of the pioneering children's news programme Newsround?
- Which international news organization was established in London in 1851 by a German-born British pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting?
- What's the literal translation of the name of the international Arabic news channel Al Jazeera?
- What did the general sports paper L'Auto organise in 1903 as a circulation booster?
- In the 1960's and 70', which American anchorman for the CBS Evening News was often cited as "the most trusted man in America"?
- The Herald Sun is a newspaper with the highest circulation in which country?
- Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years on the February of which year?
- What does the abreviation CNN stand for?
- Where can you buy a copy of Penguin News?
- Which Chief BBC News Correspondent reported from war zones around the world between 1989 and 2003?
- In 2010, in which country were 33 miners trapped 700 meters underground and rescued after 69 days?
- Which French newspaper's title translates as 'The World'?
- In which year was the Challenger explosion?
- Name the first female newsreader at ITN? This newsreader also presented the BBC Six O'Clock News from 1989 until 1999.
- Which war correspondent reported during the Falklands War: "I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back."?
- Which sports journalist and commentator for the BBC first came to public attention when he was the timekeeper for Roger Bannister's four-minute mile in 1954?
- Which American multinational conservative cable news TV channel was launched on October 7, 1996?
- The Sun newpaper's back page once featured an image of which football manager's face superimposed onto a turnip?
- Which year saw the New York Times headline: "Obama: Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory"?
- Rupert Murdoch moved his News International printing and publishing works into which district of London in 1986, resulting in a trade union dispute?
- Former U.S. president Donald Trump has been credited with popularizing which term by using it to describe any negative press coverage of himself?
- Which English television journalist was killed by the U.S. military while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN?
- Which journalist and broadcaster is the chairman of the new television news channel GB News?
Answers:
- The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
- 1962
- The Watergate scandal
- John Craven
- Reuters (named after German-born Paul Reuter)
- Jazeera” in Arabic means "island" or "peninsula"
- Tour de France
- Walter Cronkite
- Australia
- 1990
- Cable News Network
- Falkland Islands
- Kate Adie
- Chile
- La Monde
- 1986
- Anna Ford
- Brian Hanrahan
- Norris McWhirter
- Fox News
- Graham Taylor
- 2008
- Wapping
- Fake News
- Terry Lloyd
- Andrew Neil