Magazine
Magazines are issued on recurring schedules. This topic is part of Publishing within Language. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Magazine trivia questions
A magazine is a periodical containing articles, photographs, and often what?
Answer: Advertisements
Bonus fact: Magazines are issued on recurring schedules.
What is the main featured story promoted on a magazine cover called?
Answer: Cover story
Bonus fact: A cover story is usually the issue's most prominently promoted feature.
What publishing term refers to the list of editors, staff, and publication information?
Answer: Masthead
Bonus fact: The masthead identifies key publication staff and details.
What magazine employed E. B. White as a longtime writer and essayist?
Answer: The New Yorker
Bonus fact: White joined The New Yorker soon after its founding.
Life magazine became famous for emphasizing what visual medium?
Answer: Photojournalism
Bonus fact: Its large-format pages showcased documentary photography.
Which war greatly expanded Life magazine's role in American photojournalism?
Answer: World War II
Bonus fact: Life photographers documented combat and the home front.
What distinctive border became strongly associated with National Geographic magazine covers?
Answer: Yellow border
Bonus fact: The yellow rectangular border is one of publishing's best-known visual marks.
Before filmmaking, Crowe was best known as a writer for which magazine?
Answer: Rolling Stone
Bonus fact: He interviewed major rock musicians while still very young.
What printing technique historically allowed detailed illustrations to be cut into a block and printed with raised surfaces?
Answer: Wood engraving
Bonus fact: Wood engraving became widely used for book and magazine illustrations in the 19th century.
Which photographer made the famous Life image of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on V-J Day?
Answer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Bonus fact: Eisenstaedt's photograph became one of the magazine's iconic images.
National Geographic is especially famous for photography of what?
Answer: Nature, cultures, science, and exploration
Bonus fact: Photography has been central to the magazine's identity.
Who wrote the novel "Wives and Daughters"?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
Bonus fact: The novel first appeared in serial form in Cornhill Magazine during the 1860s.