Early Years
Paris
Watergate
Washington Post
Washington Post 2
100
Bomb
What is the way Bradlee was almost killed while fighting in the war?
100
Embassy
What is the place where Bradlee worked while in Paris?
100
The reporters Bradlee backed up in the reporting of the Watergate stories.
Who are Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward?
100
A mentor of Bradlee who taught him much of what he knew about Washington
Who is Ken Crawford?
100
The best story Bradlee considered himself to be part of and ultimately led him to consider retirement.
What is Watergate?
200
August 26, 1921 Boston, Massachusetts
What is the day Bradlee was born?
200
Press Attache
What was Bradlee's position while in Paris?
200
The one man Bradlee and staff agreed to publicly say was not Deep Throat
Who is Alexander Haig?
200
A story that the New York Times used a 7,000 page study and beat Bradlee and his team to covering.
What were The Pentagon Papers?
200
Administrative meetings-- budgets, diversity, reengineering
What are the things Bradlee doesn't miss about the Post?
300
Columbia University School of Journalism
What is the school Bradlee attended?
300
Christmas Eve
What was the day Bradlee started working for Newsweek?
300
The source Bradlee says he wouldn't use now because of too little information
Who was Deep Throat?
300
The amount Bradlee was paid for at his first position for the Post
What is 80 dollars a week?
300
A reporter who worked under Bradlee, she fabricated a story about a child addicted to heroin.
Who is Janet Cooke?
400
The U.S.S DeHaven
What was Bradlee's 19th and final destroyer he boarded?
400
Freelance Feature writer
What is the job Bradlee started to fund trips to Paris and to Washington for he and his mistress?
400
Bradlee's method for coping after Watergate
What is escaping to a cabin to write a book?
400
The amount Bradlee helped the Washington Post buy Newsweek for
What is 15 million dollars?
400
Bradlee called this case "the mother of all national security stories."
What is the Pelton Case?
500
Infidelity
What is Bradlee's habit?
500
Lawyer Antoinette Pinchot Meyer
Who was the woman Bradlee was having an affair with while in Paris?
500
What the White House called the Watergate stories
What is a collection of absurdities?
500
The amount of time that passed after leaving his first job at the Post before Bradlee returned to work for the Post as deputy managing editor
What is 14 years and six weeks?
500
A story Bradlee approved that cost the post more than 1.5 million dollars to run, thirty days as a defendant on trial in District Court, and another 7.5 years of appellate litigation.
What is the Post's story about the President of Mobil Oil Corporation?
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