Question: The Times was founded by what publisher who also was the editor?
Answer: John Walter

Question: The Times was known as what name before it became The Times?
Answer: The Daily Universal Register

Question: What year was the very first publication of The Times?
Answer: 1785

Question: The first publisher and editor of The Times when to prison for what crime when printed in his newspaper?
Answer: libel

Question: Before the newspaper changed its name to The Times, how many editions were printed?
Answer: 940

Question: In 1815, The Times had a circulation of how many people?
Answer: 5,000

Question: Beginning in 1814, The Times was printed using what new kind of press?
Answer: steam-driven cylinder press

Question: The Times used contributions from significant figures to build what?
Answer: reputation

Question: Who developed the new press type in 1814 for The Times?
Answer: Friedrich Koenig

Question: Who was appointed general editor for The Times in 1817?
Answer: Thomas Barnes

Question: In 1817, The Times paper's printer James Lawson passed his business to which family member?
Answer: his son

Question: Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling, two noted The Times journalists, gained what nickname for themselves?
Answer: The Thunderer

Question: What kind of printing press helped increase the circulation and influence of The Times back in 1817?
Answer: steam-driven rotary printing press

Question: Who succeeded Thomas Barnes as editor of The Times in 1841?
Answer: John Thadeus Delane

Question: The Times was the first newspaper to send correspondents to what kind of event?
Answer: war

Question: Who was The Times first correspondent with an army?
Answer: W. H. Russell

Question: Which war did The Times first cover using correspondents?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: What major event did The Times reluctantly support in the nineteenth century despite being initially opposed?
Answer: Irish Potato Famine

Question: The Times greatly supported what bill in 1832 which reduced corruption and increased the electorate?
Answer: Great Reform Bill of 1832

Question: Many demonstrations in the nineteenth century convinced The Times editorial board to finally support the repeal of what laws?
Answer: Corn Laws

Question: During the American Civil War, what classes of people did The Times support?
Answer: wealthy classes

Question: The Times favoured which political side of the American Civil War?
Answer: the secessionists

Question: What year did the founder's grandson succeed his father as editor of The Times?
Answer: 1847

Question: What is the name of the The Times founder's grandson who succeeded his father as editor?
Answer: John Walter

Question: In the 1850s, the Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from what kind of press?
Answer: the penny press

Question: Which agency often used The Times for continental intelligence?
Answer: the Foreign Office

Question: Which century was The Times first often relied upon for continental intelligence?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Continental intelligence conveyed by The Times was often superior to what?
Answer: official sources

Question: Which editor nearly ruined The Times in 1890?
Answer: Arthur Fraser Walter

Question: Which energetic editor rescued The Times from financial collapse in 1890?
Answer: Charles Frederic Moberly Bell

Question: Which encyclopedia was The Times aggressively selling to American markets?
Answer: Britannica

Question: Who was the creator of the encyclopedia that The Times was known for selling to America?
Answer: Horace Everett Hooper

Question: Who later bought the well-known encyclopedia from The Times in 1908?
Answer: Alfred Harmsworth

Question: Who was The Times' Chief Editor in 1914?
Answer: Wickham Steed

Question: The Chief Editor of The Times in 1914 argued that the British Empire should enter what war?
Answer: World War I

Question: What anti-Semitic fabrication did The Times endorse in 1920?
Answer: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Question: After publishing anti-Semitic editorials in 1920, what did The Times refer to Jews as being?
Answer: the world's greatest danger

Question: What was the name of the anti-Semitic article that The Time's Chief Editor published in 1914?
Answer: The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry

Question: A Constantinople correspondent of The Times exposed what anti-Semitic document as a forgery?
Answer: The Protocols

Question: Who was the name of the The Times Constantinople correspondent who exposed the anti-Semitic document as a forgery?
Answer: Philip Graves

Question: How did The Times respond to the exposing of anti-Semitic documents as forgery?
Answer: retracted the editorial

Question: In 1922, who bought The Times?
Answer: John Jacob Astor

Question: In 1922, which estate sold The Times?
Answer: Northcliffe estate

Question: The Times gained much notoriety in the 1930s because of its advocacy of what?
Answer: German appeasement

Question: Which The Times editor was closely allied with the government who practised German appeasement?
Answer: Geoffrey Dawson

Question: Which notable government official did The Times ally with in the 1930s whom practised German appeasement?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Question: Who was the name of the Soviet double agent who was the correspondent for The Times in Spain in the late 1930s?
Answer: Kim Philby

Question: A Soviet double agent working for The Times in Spain was a war correspondent during what war in the late 1930s?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: During World War II, the Soviet double agent who was corresponding for The Times in Spain in the 1930s later joined what agency?
Answer: MI6

Question: In 1963, a notable double agent providing valuable and high-quality reporting for The Times during a war in the late 1930s eventually defected to which country?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Between 1941 and 1946, which left-wing British historian was Assistant Editor for The Times?
Answer: E.H. Carr

Question: The Assistant Editor of The Times in 1941-1946 strongly supported what stance?
Answer: pro-Soviet

Question: Which side did The Times support in the fighting that broke out in Athens in 1944?
Answer: Communists

Question: Which major political figure condemned The Times in 1944 for not supporting the British Army?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: During World War II, The Times was nicknamed what in 1944?
Answer: the threepenny Daily Worker

Question: In what year did The Times resume printing news on the front page instead of small advertisements?
Answer: 1966

Question: In 1967, what well-known family sold The Times to a Canadian publishing magnate?
Answer: Astor family

Question: In 1967, which Canadian publishing magnate bought The Times?
Answer: Roy Thomson

Question: What is the name of the corporation that bought The Times in 1967?
Answer: Thomson Corporation

Question: Which other newspaper was brought under the same ownership as The Times in 1967 to form Times Newspapers Limited?
Answer: The Sunday Times

Question: In 1979, which corporation was struggling to run The Times?
Answer: Thomson Corporation

Question: What crisis in 1979 caused near ruin to The Times?
Answer: 1979 Energy Crisis

Question: What kind of demands were causing ruin to The Times in 1979?
Answer: union demands

Question: A media magnate from which country bought The Times in the 1980s?
Answer: Australian

Question: What is the name of the media magnate that bought The Times in the 1980s?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch

Question: Who did a media magnate in the 1980s buy The Times from?
Answer: Thomson

Question: What corporation bought The Times in 1981?
Answer: News International

Question: Who owned the major corporation that bought The Times in 1981?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch

Question: During the acquisition of The Times in 1981, John Collier and Bill O'Neill were part of what group that did three weeks of intensive bargaining?
Answer: the unions