Memorize these and recognize 32.7% of all Newspapers clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Washington Post | 20 | William Raspberry won a 1994 Pulitzer for his column in this D.C. newspaper |
| 2 | The New York Times | 15 | It was the only paper in the world to print the entire WWI peace treaty; it was all fit to print |
| 3 | The Los Angeles Times | 15 | West Coast newspaper that owns Long Island's "Newsday" |
| 4 | The Wall Street Journal | 14 | The No. 1 financial paper in the country, it's No. 2 overall with 1.8 million sold daily |
| 5 | the Miami Herald | 12 | In 1946 this Florida paper launched a "clipper" service for Latin America, named for the seaplanes that carried it |
| 6 | USA Today | 11 | With a No. 1 daily circulation of about 2.2 million, it truly is "The Nation's Newspaper" |
| 7 | Kansas City Star | 11 | After high school Harry Truman worked as a mailroom clerk for this Missouri paper |
| 8 | The Christian Science Monitor | 9 | In April 2009 this daily from the First Church of Christ, Scientist replaced its daily print edition with its website |
| 9 | The Boston Globe | 8 | This Boston daily has New England's highest circulation at about 500,000 |
| 10 | The Chicago Tribune | 8 | The New York Daily News is owned by the parent company of this Chicago newspaper |
| 11 | the Inquirer | 7 | This Philadelphia paper is nicknamed "Inky" |
| 12 | the Sun | 7 | In 1986 this Baltimore paper was bought by Times Mirror |
| 13 | New Orleans | 5 | From its Times-Picayune: "Basin Street sampler benefits Louis Armstrong... Jazz Camp" |
| 14 | Gannett | 5 | The largest U.S. owned newspaper chain, it publishes "USA Today" |
| 15 | The Plain Dealer | 5 | 1 of 2 Ohio newspapers that exceed 250,000 in daily circulation |
| 16 | the Bee | 5 | In 1935 & 1992 this Sacramento daily won Pulitzer Prizes for meritorious public service |
| 17 | St. Louis | 4 | The Post-Dispatch |
| 18 | Pravda | 4 | This paper was shut down in 1991 by Boris Yeltsin, but there have been recent incarnations |
| 19 | Honolulu | 4 | The only newspaper not in the continental U.S. to make the Top 100 is this city's Advertiser at No. 79 |
| 20 | Denver | 4 | The Rocky Mountain News |
| 21 | the New York Post | 4 | This Murdoch tabloid in New York City |
| 22 | the Daily News | 4 | When this New York tabloid appeared in 1919, it had "Illustrated" in its name |
| 23 | (William Randolph) Hearst | 4 | His father acquired the San Francisco Examiner in 1880 as payment for a gambling debt & later gave it to him to run |
| 24 | The National Enquirer | 4 | Florida-based tabloid which sells over 5,000,000 copies a week, mostly in supermarkets |
| 25 | The Free Press | 4 | It first appeared in 1831 as the "Democratic Free Press & Michigan Intelligencer" |
| 26 | British Columbia | 4 | The Victoria News |
| 27 | The L.A. Times | 3 | By circulation it's the largest newspaper in California |
| 28 | The Hartford Courant | 3 | Begun in 1764, this Hartford, Connecticut Journal is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the USA |
| 29 | The Denver Post | 3 | In 1895 bartender Harry Tammen & lottery promoter F.G. Bonfils founded this rival of the Rocky Mountain News |
| 30 | Paris | 3 | Le Monde was founded in 1944 in this city with the help of Charles de Gaulle |
| 31 | North Dakota | 3 | Newspapers in this state include the Grand Forks Herald & the Minot Daily News |
| 32 | Little Rock | 3 | This capital city's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi |
| 33 | Japan | 3 | Mainichi Shimbun is one of the "big three" dailies of this country |
| 34 | Detroit | 3 | From its Free Press: "State board backs tax rollback for Greektown" |
| 35 | Dallas | 3 | From its Morning News: "arrest warrant for Plano man in sucker punch attack" |
| 36 | China | 3 | The People's Daily is the best-selling paper in this country |
| 37 | Chicago | 3 | From its Sun-Times: "Former Blagojevich fund-raiser gets 37 months in prison" |
| 38 | the New York Daily News | 3 | Newspaper from which Archie Bunker got his version of the news |
| 39 | The Des Moines Register | 3 | It grew out of the Iowa Star, begun in 1849 |
| 40 | Vienna | 2 | This capital city's Wiener Zeitung is over 290 years old |
| 41 | Vatican City | 2 | L'Osservatore Romano was founded in Rome, but moved here in 1929 during Mussolini's era |
| 42 | Utah | 2 | The Deseret News is this state's largest evening newspaper |
| 43 | USC | 2 | Troy University's Trojan population reads the Tropolitan newspaper, while the Daily Trojan serves this school's student body |
| 44 | truth | 2 | In Communist Russia Pravda translated to this, which may have been stretched from time to time |
| 45 | The Washington Star | 2 | Time, Inc. spent $85 million in a futile attempt to save this D.C. paper |
| 46 | the St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 2 | This St. Louis newspaper won Pulitzers for meritorious public service in 1937, 1941, 1948 & 1952 |
| 47 | the San Jose Mercury News | 2 | This heavenly body News in San Jose |
| 48 | The San Francisco Examiner | 2 | It's said that "The Little Bears", run by this San Francisco paper in 1892, was the first comic strip |
| 49 | the London Times | 2 | In the 1780s John Walter started this London newspaper to show off his printing works |
| 50 | the lead | 2 | It's the term for the first paragraph in a news story; a feature may have a delayed or indirect one |
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