Pulitzer Prize Winners
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15 questions · Published October 11, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What American university began awarding the Pulitzer Prize in 1917?
The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 from an endowment left to Columbia University by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
- Multiple Choice
2. Politician and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer was born in ____________.
Hungarian-born Joseph Pulitzer left an endowment to Columbia University in his will to recognize excellence in American drama, history, journalism, literature, music, photography, and poetry.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which of these poets won four Pulitzer Prize awards for poetry?
Between 1924 and 1943, American poet Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
- Multiple Choice
4. What novel was selected to win the 1941 fiction prize, only to have the win later rescinded by the selection committee?
Because of its sexual content, the president of Columbia University found Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) offensive and convinced the selection board to reverse its decision. As a result, no prize for fiction was awarded that year.
- Multiple Choice
5. Who won the fiction prize for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence"?
FUN FACT
Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, won in 1921 for her novel "The Age of Innocence" (1920).
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