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Quiz: How much do you know about movies featuring journalists?

Film legend Robert Redford died at the age of 89 and one of his most famous roles was as journalist Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men.
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THIS WEEK, FILM legend Robert Redford died at the age of 89.

Across a career that spanned more than six decades, Redford became one of Hollywood’s biggest icons – having won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and a BAFTA along the way.

One of his major roles was as Bob Woodward in the 1976 film All the President’s Men, which was about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

With his turn as Woodward in mind, we want to test your knowledge on films featuring journalists:

All the President’s Men is about the work of journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovering the Watergate scandal involving Richard Nixon. What newspaper did they work for?
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New York Times
The Washington Post

The Wall Street Journal
The Boston Globe
In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a freelance photographer seeking out violent events. What city is the movie set in?
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Chicago
Boston

Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Meryl Streep stars as The Washington Post's CEO Katharine Graham in 2017's The Post. It's about a real-life scandal involving the newspaper and its attempts to publish which secret US government papers?
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Downing Street Memo
Drone Papers

Pentagon Papers
Wikileaks
In Spotlight, the investigative team uncovers a scandal in the Catholic Church. The investigation was based on the Archdiocese of which city?
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San Francisco
Houston

Philadelphia
Boston
The 1984 film The Killing Fields is a biographical film about journalist Sydney Schanberg documenting the horrors of a despotic regime in which country?
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Cambodia
Chile

Argentina
Uruguay
Scoop is a film about how a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview was secured between Emily Maitlis and disgraced royal Prince Andrew. Initially, Andrew’s team stipulated that questions about which figure were off the table?
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Charles
Queen Elizabeth

Jeffrey Epstein
Harry
A Private War is a film about renowned journalist Marie Colvin. She was killed in 2012 while reporting on a civil war in which country?
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Syria
Myanmar

Afghanistan
Yemen
David Fincher’s 2007 film Zodiac is about journalists and a political cartoonist who obsessively try to track the Zodiac Killer. Which city did the serial killer terrorise in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
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San Diego
San Francisco

New York
San Jose
Superman has an alter-ego as bespectacled Clark Kent. What fictional newspaper does he work for?
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The Daily Bugle
Metropolis Star

The Daily Globe
The Daily Planet
Will Ferrell stars in 2004’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. According to Ferrell’s character, Ron Burgundy, the fictional cologne ‘Sex Panther’ works what percent of the time, every time?
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Forty percent of the time, it works every time
Fifty percent of the time, it works every time

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time
Seventy percent of the time, it works every time
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Bob Woodward
'If you're gonna do it, do it right'
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Katherine Graham
Peerless publishing (and quizzing)
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You scored out of !
Ron Burgundy
'Stay classy'
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Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler
Questionable methods (and quizzing)
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