Quiz  /  Pulitzer Prize Quiz

  • 1. 
    Gwendolyn Brooks won a Pulitzer in 1950 for which book of poems?

  • The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
  • Riot
  • Annie Allen
  • Boy Breaking Glass

  • 2. 
    Where was Joseph Pulitzer born?

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • New York City, New York
  • Makó, Hungary

  • 3. 
    What year were the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded?

  • 1917
  • 1883
  • 1904
  • 1922

  • 4. 
    Which of these Pulitzer Prize winners won more than twice?

  • Robert Frost
  • Margaret Leech
  • William Faulkner
  • Barbara W. Tuchman

  • 5. 
    Which of these languages was Joseph Pulitzer not fluent in before leaving home to fight in the American Civil War?

  • German
  • French
  • Hungarian
  • English

  • 6. 
    In the 1880s, Joseph Pulitzer began suffering from what?

  • Blindness
  • Cancer
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Lyme disease

  • 7. 
    Joseph Pulitzer set aside money for the Pulitzer Prize in his will. His will also called for the creation of what?

  • The New York World
  • A nonfiction program at New York University
  • The Columbia University School of Journalism
  • The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  • 8. 
    Who designed the Pulitzer Prize gold medal?

  • Antony Gormley
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Daniel Chester French
  • Bruce Nauman

  • 9. 
    Who is the only U.S. president to have won a Pulitzer Prize?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Barack Obama

  • 10. 
    Who was the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize in music?

  • Ernst Toch
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Leslie Bassett
  • William Schuman

  • 11. 
    In what year was the poetry category for the Pulitzer Prize added?

  • 1922
  • 1950
  • 1935
  • 1918
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