Slight delay in uploading the honour roll, in keeping with the spirit of the slightly delayed books quiz. (It was really to give you all more time to answer)

Only one entrant to the Honour roll this week – Congratulations Joseph John! There were 5 others who came close… better luck next week!

And the answers to this weeks quiz:

1. Which empress of new media journalism, according to a New Yorker profile, had added so many friends on Facebook that she actually reached an upper limit and could add no more?

Ariana Huffington

2. This gentleman, born in Penglai City, China, launched his first magazine in 1923. After that, he launched many more, but it is that first magazine that we continue to know today — a brand that has even given its name to the corporation that owns it. Who, and which magazine?

Henry Luce, Time

3. The term “Yellow Journalism” was coined from the Yellow Kid character in a cartoon strip called “Hogan’s Alley,” by Richard Outcault. Outcault worked for the New York World, which was owned by which famous name in journalism?

Joseph Pulitzer

4. Who was part of a family that made its money with controlling interests a television network simply named Nine? Nine’s ownership of broadcasting rights of a particular sport led very directly to a split in that sport, so also name the sport.

Kerry Packer, cricket

5. The villain in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies was at first thought to be a caricature of the media mogul X. The writer of Tomorrow Never Dies, however, pointed out that it was in fact a caricature of X’s rival, Y — the villain is proclaimed to have died exactly like Y, “missing, presumed drowned, having fallen from his luxury yacht.” Who are X and Y?

X = Rupert Murdoch, Y = Robert Maxwell.