The front page of the first issue of the Forverts, April 22, 1897 Photo by the Forward

LearnedLeague, a web-based, invitation-only global quiz league with over 28,000 members worldwide, recently featured the Forverts in a question, worded as follows:

The newspaper called Forverts that was founded in 1897, and provided socialist-oriented content on politics and government as well as columns aimed at familiarizing its readers with American culture, was published in what language?

Only 29% members of the League correctly answered: “Yiddish.” Among the other guesses were Esperanto, Norwegian, German and Tagalog — a language spoken by the ethnic Tagalog people who comprise a quarter of the population of the Philippines.

This isn’t the first time the Forward was featured in a trivia question posed by LearnedLeague. In 2019, members received the following question:

Lithuanian-born Abraham Cahan was a founder in 1897 of what Yiddish-language newspaper, which was a vital resource for many Jewish immigrants as it reached a circulation of over 275,000 by the early 1930s?

Even fewer people got that one right: 15%. So if you answered both questions correctly, you deserve a mazel tov! You’ve just outperformed thousands of trivia experts.

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