Trivia: Franklin published the first U.S. newspaper printed in what language?
French
Spanish
German
Italian
Correct Answer: German
So why is this answer correct? : “Die Philadelphische Zeitung” (“The Philadelphia Newspaper”) was the name of the German-language newspaper published by Ben Franklin in 1732. The publication was not only the first German-language newspaper in the United States, but it was the first newspaper in any foreign language published in America.