Correct : A. a detailed look at something interesting that's not breaking news
3. Editorials means ………………..
Correct : A. unsigned articles that express a publication's opinion
4. Columns means …………………
Correct : A. signed articles that express the writer's reporting and his conclusions
5. Blogs means ……………………….
Correct : A. online diaries kept by individuals or small groups
6. The people or documents you use when reporting a story are called ……………..
Correct : A. sources
7. …………………is a work of collecting, writing, editing and publishing material in newspapers
and magazines or on television and radio for general information.
Correct : D. journalism
8. In………………, inscriptions engraved on rocks or pillars served as a medium of information.
Correct : A. ancient india
9. ………………., for example, had his Rock Edicts and Pillar Edicts posted all over his empire
and even beyond.
Correct : D. emperor asoka
10. During the………………., the Barid-i-Mamalik or commissioner of intelligence used to serve
the authorities with the information of the empire.
Correct : C. sultanate period
11. Journalism with its modern characteristics originated from …………..in the 18th century.
Correct : B. europe
12. The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by …………….
Correct : A. augustus hicky
13. Bengal gazette was the journal of ………………….
Correct : D. augustus hicky
14. ………….in 1876 succeeded in using wires to send the human voice across long distances.
Correct : D. alexander graham bell
15. The radio was invented by …………..in 1901 which made sending of human voices over long
distances possible.
Correct : B. marconi
16. ……………….was invented by Baird in 1920.
Correct : A. television
17. It is believed that Johannes Gutenberg of …………..was the first to develop printing around
1439.
Correct : C. germany
18. Photography was developed in the 19th century by two people from…………, Nicephore
Niepce and Louis- Jacques-Mande Daguerre.
Correct : C. france
19. The motion picture machines used to project the films into moving images and later talking
pictures were developed by ………….in the USA and the Lumiere brothers in France.
Correct : A. thomas alva edison
20. The first Indian motion picture was Raja Harischandra by ……………………
Correct : A. dada saheb phalke
21. In India, television started in 1959 on an experimental basis and the first television station was
set up in ………………..
Correct : C. delhi
22. The term graphic design was actually coined in 1922 by book designer
Correct : A. william addison dwiggins
23. The first successful newspaper was the Boston News-Letter begun by postmaster
……………….in 1704.
Correct : C. john campbell
24. In 1731, the first magazine, the Gentlemen’s Magazine originally published “a repository of all
things worth mentioning,” printed at St.John’s Gate in…………., by Edward Cave.
Correct : C. england
25. Who were the first to invent the art of printing?
Correct : C. chinese
26. The first printed book published in China was the Buddhist text, the “Diamond Sutra” by
……………….in 868 AD.
Correct : A. wang chick
27. The first book printed in India was in …………….language in Old Goa.
Correct : D. portugese
28. In 1784, ……………launched the “Daily Universal Register” from London which later adopted
a new name “The Times”.
Correct : A. john walter
29. Who started the paper “The Boston Newsletter”?
Correct : D. john campbell
30. On January 29, 1780 James Augustus Hickey launched the ………….
Correct : D. bengal gazette
31. The Madras Courier was started in ……………………..
Correct : A. 1785
32. Who edited a PersianWeekly called ‘Mirat-ul-Akhbar’.
Correct : D. raja ram mohan roy
33. Who is the author of “The Jungle Book”?
Correct : D. rudyard kipling
34. The author of “The Jungle Book”, Rudyard Kipling, started ………….in 1866 from Allahabad.
Correct : D. the pioneer
35. Gandhiji started the ……………under the editorship of Mahadev Desai.
Correct : A. harijan
36. Who ……………..launched a weekly, called the “Navjeevan”, in Gujarati?
Correct : A. gandhiji
37. Henry Muddiman had gained eminence as the "journalist" who edited the …………in 1666.
Correct : A. london gazette
38. …………….Hungarian-born editor and publisher, was instrumental in developing ‘yellow
journalism’ in the United States.
Correct : A. joseph pulitzer
39. Who was nicknamed as the “Father of Yellow Journalism.”?
Correct : A. william randolph hearst
40. ‘Publick Occurrences’ was a newspaper published by …………………
Correct : A. benjamin harris
41. Which is the year of The French revolution?
Correct : A. 1789
42. The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian founded………….., is a British
national daily newspaper in the Berliner format.
Correct : B. 1821
43. Bengal Gazette was published by ……………………
Correct : A. james augustus hicky
44. Bengal Gazette was published James Augustus Hicky by in ………………..
Correct : B. 1780
45. Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4
March …………………
Correct : B. 1784
46. Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4
March 1784. It was not a government publication and owed its origin and initial management to……………, an oriental scholar and an officer of the east India Company.
Correct : B. francis gladwin
47. Who was the owner of the Calcutta Morning Post?
Correct : B. mr. heatly
48. The Calcutta Journal, a new newspaper was launched by …………
Correct : A. james silk buckingham
49. ………………were the first European nations who brought a printing press to India and the
first book published in India was by the Jesuits of Goa in 1557.
Correct : B. the portuguese
50. In 1684 the English East India Company set up a printing press in ………………..
Correct : B. bombay
51. When the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
Correct : B. 1878
52. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act?
Correct : B. lord lytton
53. Which Act came to be nicknamed as the Gagging Act?
Correct : A. the vernacular press act
54. …………………, a teacher and reformist, started the first Bangla weekly Bengal Gazette in
early 1818
Correct : A. ganga kishore bhattacharya
55. Raja Rammohan set up……………………
Correct : A. sambad kaumudi
56. Raja Rammohan set up ………………….in English
Correct : A. brahminical magazine
57. Raja Rammohan set up the …………………………in Persian
Correct : A. mirat-ul-akbar
58. The government of India established the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI) in
…………….. on the recommendation of the first Press Commission.
Correct : B. 1956
59. Who established Serampore Mission, India’s first Christian missionary organisation.
Correct : A. william carey
60. Serampore Mission (1800-1845)-India's first Christian missionary organisation. William carey
and his two associates established this mission on 10 January ……………
Correct : B. 1800
61. Who was called as the ‘Liberator of the Indian Press’?
Correct : A. charles metcalfe
62. The Mumbai Samachar is the oldest newspaper in India, published in …………and is one of
the most trusted newspapers of Mumbai.
Correct : A. gujarati
63. Who brought out the Newspaper, the Bombay Samachar, in 1822
Correct : A. fardoonji murazban
64. The Madras Courier was started in ……………
Correct : D. 1785
65. Who was the founder of the newspaper ‘The Madras Courier’?
Correct : D. richard johnson
66. Who launched in 1858 a Bangla weekly ‘Som Prakash’?
Correct : D. iswar chandra vidyasagar
67. In 1875, Robert Knight founded ………………………
Correct : D. the statesman
68. Who was the founder of the newspaper “The Hindu”(1878)?
Correct : A. kasturi ranga iyengar
69. Vernacular Press Act was passed in ………….
Correct : D. 1878
70. Who passed Vernacular Press Act?
Correct : D. lord lytton
71. The Press Council of India was established in the year ……….
Correct : D. 1966
72. ………………is a constitutional, quasi judicial body which acts as a supervisory body of the
press.
Correct : A. the present press council of india
73. ……….were the first Europeans who introduced printing press in India.
Correct : D. portuguese
74. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper 'Kesari' in …………..
Correct : A. marathi
75. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper ‘Maratha’ in………………
Correct : A. english
76. ‘The Spectator’ was an English-language newspaper published from …………..
Correct : A. madras
77. The All India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka in ………….
Correct : B. 1906
78. Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society in May …………
Correct : A. 1889
79. Annie Besant was elected President of the Theosophical Society in
Correct : A. 1907
80. Annie Besant came to India on 16 November 1893 to attend the Annual Convention of the
Theosophical Society at ………..
Correct : A. adyar
81. Who founded a weekly newspaper Commonweal in January 1914?
Correct : A. annie besant
82. Who started ‘new India’?
Correct : A. annie besant
83. Who started 'Young India'?
Correct : A. mahatma gandhi
84. Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.
Correct : B. indian opinion
85. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is the biography of …………
Correct : B. mahatma gandhi
86. Who started newspaper 'Harijan'?
Correct : B. gandhiji
87. The Leader was one of the most influential English-language newspapers in India during
British Raj which was Founded by ………
Correct : B. madan mohan malviya
88. Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper started in 1910 by …………..
Correct : A. sir pherozeshah mehta
89. Mathrubhumi was first published on 18th March, ……….
Correct : A. 1923
90. The founder of ‘Mathrubhumi’, the Malayalam language newspaper was the renowned
freedom fighter ………….
Correct : A. k. p. kesava menon
91. Who founded the newspaper ‘National Herald’?
Correct : B. jawaharlal nehru
92. ‘Yugantar’ was started by …………..
Correct : B. barindra kumar ghosh
93. ………………….started publication of the journal 'Ghadar'.
Correct : B. lala hardayal
94. Find the odd one out of the following:
Correct : D. newspaper
95. Find the odd one out of the following:
Correct : D. visual communication
96. To choose the news items for the newspaper and to correct the language, spelling and remove
all the unimportant sentences are the functions of
Correct : B. editor
97. To keep only the essential parts in the picture is called
Correct : A. cropping
98. Which composing method is also called as cold type setting?
Correct : B. phototype setting
99. Headlines are generally given by
Correct : C. editors
100. Which media would be ideal to attract the attention of children to sell chocolates to them?