frontline: twentieth anniversary: things you might know - a FRONTLINE quiz

things you might know - a FRONTLINE quiz

When you have completed the quiz, you will be shown your score as well as the correct answer.


1. FRONTLINE has sought out the talents of many insightful writers and journalists for its reports. Which person on the following list has never been a correspondent for FRONTLINE?
	Garry Wills
	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
	Richard Ben Cramer
	Robert Krulwich
	Peter Boyer
	Shelby Steele
	Robert Wright
	Seymour Hersh
	Joe Nocera
	Hedrick Smith

2. FRONTLINE's range of subjects over two decades is striking. Which subject on the following list was never the focus of a FRONTLINE report?
	Retirement
	Boxing
	Talk Shows
	A Beauty Pageant
	Obesity
	Tabloid Journalism
	Astronauts
	Infertility

3. Over the past 20 years, what has been the number-one question asked by FRONTLINE viewers?
	Who funds FRONTLINE?
	When will this program be on, or be repeated?
	Will you consider my suggestion for a program on [blank]?
	Why doesn't FRONTLINE have a host/anchor for the series?

4. Over 7% of FRONTLINE's 420 programs have been biographies. Which person on the list below has never been the subject of one?
	Andrei Sakharov
	Ronald Reagan
	Tammy Bakker
	Rush Limbaugh
	George Soros
	Robert Dole
	Rupert Murdoch
	Yasser Arafat
	George W. Bush

5. What has been FRONTLINE's most requested biography?
	"The Godfather of Cocaine" (Pablo Escobar)
	"The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela"
	"Death of a Porn Queen"
	"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?"
	"Pope John Paul II - The Millennial Pope"

6. What has been the most requested program in FRONTLINE's history?
	The Diamond Empire
	A Class Divided
	Death of a Porn Queen
	From Jesus to Christ
	Merchants of Cool
	Drug Wars
	The Godfather of Cocaine

7. Since October 1995 FRONTLINE has been producing indepth companion websites for each of its programs. What website has received the most traffic over the years?
	The Gulf War
	Drug Wars
	From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
	The World's Most Wanted Man
	The Triumph of Evil
	Hunting Bin Laden

8. What Hollywood movie's storyline featured FRONTLINE?
	The Fugitive
	The Client
	Broadcast News
	The Killing Fields
	The Pelican Brief
	Black Hawk Down

9. What well-known person has been the subject of two FRONTLINE biographies?
	Ronald Reagan
	Yasser Arafat
	Dr. Jack Kevorkian
	Saddam Hussein
	Hillary Clinton
	Newt Gingrich

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