Kaufmann quiz: Chicago columnists
How well do you know our newspaper scribes?
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This award-winning Tribune columnist was one of Chicago's best, until a sex scandal with a high school student forced him to resign:
Correct answer: Bob Greene
Tom Johnson
Aaron May
Willy Thompson
Bob Greene
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This embattled sports columnist riled up readers until he left town in 2008:
Correct answer: Jay Mariotti
Rick Telander
Rick Morrissey
Jay Mariotti
Fred Mitchell
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This syndicated Tribune columnist just announced their semi-retirement:
Correct answer: Clarence Page
Clarence Page
Mary Mitchell
Michael Sneed
Eric Zorn
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She took over Irv Kupcinet's column after he died:
Correct answer: Stella Foster
Suze Orman
Margo Howard
Stella Foster
Mara Tapp
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Who wrote a music column for the Sun-Times?
Correct answer: Jim DeRogatis
Marty Lennartz
James VanOsdol
Jim DeRogatis
Greg Kot
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This columnist covered arts and culture for most of the 20th century. There is a theater named after her:
Correct answer: Claudia Cassidy
Alison Chopin
Claudia Cassidy
Jane Nederlander
Lois Weisberg
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What publication did media columnist Robert Feder NOT work for?
Correct answer: Chicago Reader
Sun-Times
Chicago Reader
Daily Herald
Vocalo
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This Chicago Reader sex-advice columnist was syndicated from Seattle, but he grew up in Chicago:
Correct answer: Dan Savage
Dan Savage
Mick Dumke
Mike Sula
Marcus Gilmer
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Kathy O'Malley, Michael Sneed and Terry Armour wrote for this gossip column:
Correct answer: INC.
QT
Tower Ticker
About Last Night
INC.
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Which one of these did NOT write a column for RedEye?
Correct answer: Charlie Meyerson
Charlie Meyerson
Tracy Swartz
Ernest Wilkins
Jimmy Greenfield
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Admit it, you always skipped the columnists and straight for the funny papers.
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Not terrible! You only read Royko, anyway.
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Congrats! You must have skipped the front page and thumbed right to the columnists. Me too :)