Oprah Winfrey Trivia Questions With Answers
What is Oprah Winfrey's birth name?
A: Oprah Gail Winfrey.
As a young girl, Oprah was so poor that she often had to
wear dresses made from what?
A: Potato sacks.
What is Oprah Winfrey's birthday?
A: January 29, 1954.
At church with her grandmother, what was Oprah's nickname?
A: "The Preacher" for her ability to recite
Bible verses.
Where was Oprah Winfrey born?
A: Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.
Winfrey once stated that she had decided not to be a mother
because she had not been what?
A: Mothered well.
Oprah Winfrey is best known for her what?
A: Multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Oprah has been ranked the richest what?
A: African-American of the 20th century.
According to some, Oprah is the most influential
woman in
the what?
A: World.
Oprah became pregnant at the age of 14, but her son was
born what?
A: Prematurely and he died shortly after birth.
In 2013, she received what award from President Barack
Obama?
A: Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Oprah received an honorary doctorate degree from where in
2013?
A: Harvard.
Winfrey's mother was a what?
A: Single teenage mother.
At what age did Oprah win the Miss Black
Tennessee beauty
pageant?
A: 17.
What did Oprah became while attending East
Nashville High
School?
A: An honors student, and was voted Most Popular Girl.
At what age does Oprah state that she was raped?
A: Nine.
Winfrey moved to Baltimore's WJZ-TV to do what in
1976?
A: Co-anchor the six o'clock news.
At what age did she become pregnant?
A: 14.
What women's TV network did Oprah co-found?
A: The women's cable television network Oxygen.
Oprah began co-anchoring the local evening news at what age
while still in high school?
A: 19.
Oprah has popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk
show genre pioneered by whom?
A: Phil Donahue.
By the mid-1990s, Oprah's show was focused on what?
A: Literature, self-improvement, and spirituality.
From 2006 to
2008, Winfrey's support for Barack Obama, by
one estimate, delivered over a million votes in what race?
A: The 2008 Democratic primary race.
Winfrey was named "Orpah" after the
biblical character in
which biblical book?
A: Book of Ruth.
Oprah was the youngest what at Nashville's WLAC-TV?
A: News anchor and the first black female news anchor.
What occupation did Winfrey's mother have?
A: Her mother, Vernita Lee, was a housemaid.
Winfrey's biological father is usually noted as who?
A: Vernon Winfrey.
A genetic test in 2006 determined that Oprah's matrilineal
line originated in the area that today is what country?
A: Liberia.
Oprah spent her first six years living in rural poverty
with who?
A: Her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley) Lee.
Winfrey's grandmother taught her to do what by the age of
three?
A: Read.
When Winfrey was a child and misbehaved, how was she
disciplined?
A: Her grandmother would hit her with a stick.
What did Oprah do at the age of 13 after suffering years of
abuse?
A: She ran away from home.
Oprah won an oratory contest, which gained her a full
scholarship to what school?
A: Tennessee State University, a historically black institution.
Where was Oprah's first job as a teenager?
A: Working at a local grocery store.
The local black radio station, WVOL, hired Oprah to do
what?
A: The news part-time.
In 1983, Winfrey moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's
half-hour morning talk show called what?
A: AM Chicago.
Shortly after Oprah took over AM Chicago, it went from last
place in the ratings to overtaking what
TV show and becoming the highest rated
talk show in Chicago?
A: Donahue.
The Oprah Winfrey Show brought in double Donahue's national
what?
A: Audience.
On what date did the series finale of The Oprah Winfrey
Show air?
A: On May 25, 2011.
Winfrey hosted a rare prime-time interview with
Michael
Jackson, which became the most watched interview ever, with an audience of how
many?
A: 36.5 million.