'PW' Jeopardy

A pop quiz about us

by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/29/2005

1. Year PW was founded. (Hint: The president was a future bestselling author.)
2. PW executive editor in the 1970s and early 1980s who shared her initials with a famous French sex kitten.
3. PW consumer spinoff that went belly-up in 1978. Extra credit: Who was its editor-in-chief?
4. PW editor celebrating her 40th anniversary at the magazine this year.
5. Unlikely corporate owner of PW in the early 1980s.
6. First writer to pen a Signature review for PW. (Hint: There's a "limerick" that fits this man well.)
7. Number of books reviewed in PW in 2004.
8. PW's original name.
9. The year PW started publishing reviews. (Hint: FDR and Hitler came to power.)
10. The year PW first published a bestseller list. (Hint: Fenway Park opens, Titanic sinks.)
11. Fire Island.