AP Style
Journalism Trivia
Pilot History
Tara + Tyler Trivia
100

This is used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more terms.

What is the Oxford comma?

100

This person is the host of the New York Times' podcast, "The Daily."

Who is Michael Barbaro?

100

This former Pilot EIC has claimed to love hamsters in the past.

Who is Ryne Dunman?

100

This location is where Tara is happiest.

What is Disneyland?

200

The correct way to format the name of our school in a news article.

What is Portola High?

200

This American businessman, newspaper publisher and politician developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, particularly through "yellow journalism."

Who was William Randolph Hearst?

200

In the 2020-2021 school year, the Pilot's staff page looked different than other years because of this reason. 

What is an illustration?

200

Tyler dressed up as this 80s movie character for Halloween last year.

Who is Marty McFly?

300

Headlines of print articles must be formatted in this way.

What is downstyle?

300

Stephen Glass, portrayed by the sexy Hayden Christensen in the film "Shattered Glass," works for this national newspaper.

What is The New Republic?

300

This is the number of episodes the Portola Pioneer podcast put out during the 2022-2023 school year.

What is 5?

300

This album is likely to be the only overlap on Tara and Tyler's Spotify Wrapped ever.

What is the "La La Land" (2016, dir. Damien Chazelle) score?

400

All months that are not abbreviated in AP Style, in alphabetical order.

What is April, July, June, March, May?

400

Daniel Pearl and Evan Gershkovich were both covering foreign events for this newspaper when they were silenced by forcible means.

What is the Wall Street Journal?

400

This is the number of subscribers the official Portola Pilot YouTube channel has.

What is 62?

400

Tyler has logged this many movies on Letterboxd.

What is 1,007?

500

Aside from prepositions, articles, and short words (<3 letters), these are not capitalized in the headline of an online article.

What are coordinating conjunctions?

500

The historic building of this former magazine, which was named after a popular Shakespeare character, is currently owned by Jared Kushner.

What is Puck Magazine?

500

This was the number of songs on the Portola Pilot Distribution Day playlist during the 2021-2022 school year.

What is 97?
500

Tara and Tyler both fixated on this media franchise as young children, watching both movies in theaters and playing the licensed tie-in video game, both on mobile and on console.

What are the Smurfs?