Memorize these and you could recognize 32.6% of all Newspapers clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Washington Post | 19 | It's said when Nixon picked Agnew, this D.C. paper likened it to Caligula naming his horse proconsul |
| 2 | The New York Times | 15 | It claims to provide "All the news that's fit to print" |
| 3 | The Los Angeles Times | 15 | This paper's editor-in-chief, Otis Chandler, has an avid interest in surfing |
| 4 | The Wall Street Journal | 13 | With the weekday circulation close to that of "The N.Y. Times" & the "L.A. Times" combined, this is the largest-selling U.S. daily |
| 5 | the Miami Herald | 12 | International editions of this Miami daily are airlifted to Latin America |
| 6 | USA Today | 11 | This Gannett newspaper is now available in 80 countries, not just the U.S. |
| 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 | This Boston-based newspaper is circulated in more than 100 countries |
| 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 Sun | 7 | In 1986 this Baltimore paper was bought by Times Mirror |
| 12 | the Inquirer | 6 | This Philadelphia paper is nicknamed "Inky" |
| 13 | New Orleans | 5 | In June 2002 this city's Times-Picayune began a 5-part series on the destruction a hurricane could bring |
| 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 | Though they twice announced they would be folding, the Globe-Democrat is alive & well in this city |
| 18 | Pravda | 4 | At about 11 million, this Russian newspaper has, it's claimed, the world's biggest daily circulation |
| 19 | Honolulu | 4 | The 1st English- Language newspaper published in this state capital was the Sandwich Island Gazette |
| 20 | Denver | 4 | This state capital's 2 main newspapers are the Post & the Rocky Mountain News |
| 21 | the New York Post | 4 | In 1988 Rupert Murdoch sold this NYC tabloid to Peter Kalikow, who's now trying to keep it alive |
| 22 | the Daily News | 4 | Begun in 1919 this New York City newspaper was the first tabloid picture paper in the U.S. |
| 23 | (William Randolph) Hearst | 4 | He bought the New York Morning Journal in 1895 with money his mother gave him |
| 24 | The National Enquirer | 4 | Its circulation is among the largest among U.S. supermarket tabloids |
| 25 | The Free Press | 4 | It first appeared in 1831 as the "Democratic Free Press & Michigan Intelligencer" |
| 26 | British Columbia | 4 | This Canadian province's first newspaper, the Victoria Gazette, was published in 1858 |
| 27 | The L.A. Times | 3 | Founded in 1881, it's Southern California's dominant newspaper |
| 28 | The Denver Post | 3 | This paper is noted for its historic rivalry with the Rocky Mountain News |
| 29 | Paris | 3 | The International Herald Tribune is headquartered in this European capital |
| 30 | North Dakota | 3 | In 1876 this state's Bismarck Tribune became the 1st paper to report the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| 31 | Little Rock | 3 | This city's Arkansas Gazette is the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi |
| 32 | Japan | 3 | Mainichi Shimbun is one of the "big three" dailies of this country |
| 33 | Detroit | 3 | Despite its name, this large Midwest city's "Free Press" costs 20 cents, 75 cents on Sundays |
| 34 | Dallas | 3 | The Morning News, est. 1885 |
| 35 | China | 3 | The world's 1st printed newspaper appeared in this Oriental country in the 8th century |
| 36 | Chicago | 3 | When Field Enterprises closed down this city's Daily News in 1978, it owned the Sun-Times |
| 37 | the New York Daily News | 3 | In 1927 this NYC tabloid originated & sponsored the Golden Gloves |
| 38 | The Des Moines Register | 3 | It grew out of the Iowa Star, begun in 1849 |
| 39 | Vienna | 2 | This capital city's Wiener Zeitung is over 290 years old |
| 40 | Vatican City | 2 | "L'Osservatore Romano", which began publishing on July 1, 1861, is this country's only newspaper |
| 41 | Utah | 2 | This state's oldest newspaper, the Deseret News, was founded in 1850 |
| 42 | USC | 2 | Daily Trojan |
| 43 | truth | 2 | Per its name, the Soviets assume their newspaper "Pravda" provides this |
| 44 | The Washington Star | 2 | Time, Inc. spent $85 million in a futile attempt to save this D.C. paper |
| 45 | the St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 2 | Both the Cleveland Plain Dealer & this St. Louis paper are owned by the Newhouse family |
| 46 | the San Jose Mercury News | 2 | "The newspaper of Silicon Valley", this San Jose paper got its name from another element mined in the area |
| 47 | The San Francisco Examiner | 2 | In 1887 William Randolph Hearst took over this San Francisco newspaper |
| 48 | the London Times | 2 | The Walter family wholly or partly owned this London newspaper from its founding in 1785 until 1966 |
| 49 | the lead | 2 | The top news item of the day, or the first sentence in the story about it |
| 50 | The Hartford Courant | 2 | During the American Revolution, this New England newspaper had the USA's highest circulation; it's still in the top 50 |