Random House Trivia Challenge: 11 Questions to Test Your Expertise

Updated: Mar 17, 2023

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

Get ready to flex your Random House muscles with this tricky quiz! Featuring 11 questions on a variety of Random House topics, this is not for the casual fan. Only true Random House buffs will be able to answer them all correctly. Discover your unique strengths.

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

Get ready to flex your Random House muscles with this tricky quiz! Featuring 11 questions on a variety of Random House topics, this is not for the casual fan. Only true Random House buffs will be able to answer them all correctly. Discover your unique strengths.

What was the founding date of Random House?

1927
1933
1924
1932

Who founded Random House?

Sara Miller McCune
George Ellery Hale
Generoso Pope, Jr.
Bennett Cerf

Random House was founded by Bennett Cerf.
Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.

Who is Random House's parent organization?

Stan Lee Media
Penguin Random House
International Dark-Sky Association
CRC Press

Penguin Random House is the parent organization of Random House.
Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.

Which picture shows Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House?

Random House was founded by Bennett Cerf.
Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.

Albrecht Knaus Verlag and Goldmann are subsidiaries of Random House. Can you name another subsidiary of Random House?

Prestel Publishing
G.M. Hopkins & Co.
Iron Crown Enterprises
The Blakiston Company

Here is a list of subsidiaries of Random House:

Goldmann
Albrecht Knaus Verlag
Prestel Publishing
Random House Studio

Who owns Random House?

Bertelsmann
Salman Schocken
RELX Group
Macmillan Publishers

The official owner of Random House is Bertelsmann.
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

What is the name of the CEO of Random House ?

Jaume Domingo I Planas
Jorge Coll
Núria Cabutí
Aniol Rafel I Borrell

Núria Cabutí is/has been a CEO of Random House.

What is Random House's core industry?

Publishing
Water
Leather
Software

Which of the following is included in Random House's list of properties?
(Select 2 answers)

Berkshire Hathaway
21st Century Fox
Gütersloher Verlagshaus
Figment

Among the assets owned by Random House are Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Gold Key Comics, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Bantam Books, BBC Books, Figment, Pimlico, Siedler Verlag & Wings Books.

Random House's headquarters is located in Amsterdam.
Is this true or false?

False
True

In Mar 2, 2022 Random House had 201,659 followers on Twitter. Can you guess how many Twitter followers Random House had in Feb 3, 2023?

211,254
236,604
238,717
257,730

Random House had 211,254 followers on Twitter as of Feb 3, 2023.

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