"The Last Juror" Pt1 by John Grisham Quiz

Answer: Newspaper owner

Willie started as a cub reporter. When the paper went bankrupt he saw an opportunity and asked his grandmother to give him the money needed to help him buy the paper.

Answer: Clanton

Clanton is a small fictional town in Mississippi. The other names refer to the main protagonists during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Answer: Obituaries

Wilson would spend hours on creating obituaries for the local community. Wilson was crazy and spent most of his time constructing elaborate obituaries for the local people.

Answer: Spitfire

The Triumph Spitfire is a classic British two seater sports car first introduced in 1962.
The Jaguar E-type is the quintessential British sports car of the 1960s.
The Ford Mustang is best known as the car Steve McQueen drove in Bullitt and my idea of an American muscle car.
The Pinto is another car made by Ford and was introduced in 1970. It was also known as the Mercury Bobcat and it preceded the Escort.

Answer: Joe Namath

Willie Shoemaker (The Sultan of the Saddle) was a very successful jockey with a career spanning 4 decades.
Willie Carson was a great British Jockey and is now a sports pundit on British Television.
Willie McCovey played major league baseball for 22 years, mainly with ther San Francisco Giants, ending his career with 521 home runs.
Joe Willie Namath was born Joseph William Namath in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. He was a great quarterback for the New York Jets for 11 years from 1965 until 1976 and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Namath was a Yankee, like Will, who moved from Pennsylvania to Alabama and became known as 'Joe Willie'.

Answer: $50,000

The paper was in financial straits when Willie joined and soon after went into Bankruptcy. Willie was able to get $50,000 from his grandmother to buy the newspaper.

Answer: Rhoda Kassellaw

Margaret Wright is the secretary at the Ford County Times.
Maxine was lucky when she became suspicious of a package that was supposed to have come from her sister.
Alice Wood is a minor character in the book who had witnessed the Mayor's sons behaving badly.
Rhoda was a young beautiful widow who was getting on with her life but unfortunately attracted her killer.

Answer: 4,000 copies

As in most cases when there is a sensational murder, sales of newspapers increase as coverage of all the gruesome facts becomes known.

Answer: He wrote obituaries for coloured people

When Wilson found out that a whole section of the town died, and were buried, without one of his obituaries, he quickly placed one within his newspaper. When cancellations were made Wilson printed on the front page that he would print whatever he liked in his newspaper and if any white folks were not happy about this he would cut down on their obituaries. Dying is serious business in the South and to be buried without one of Wilson's glorious obits was more than most whites were prepared to stand.

Answer: 23 years of age

With the brashness of a 23-year-old who knew he could depend on his rich grandmother, Willie bought the paper.