1. What is the meaning of circulation in the parlance of the print media?
Correct : C. number of copies sold
2. A journalists need not be …………while covering an event.
Correct : B. domineering
3. An interview is a type of
Correct : B. dyadic communication
4. Who developed the first paper for the mankind?
Correct : D. the chinese
5. Who invented the TV?
Correct : D. john logie baird
6. Which of the following is not a traditional media?
Correct : B. tv
7. Which of the following is not a modern media?
Correct : A. sculpture
8. Which of the following is not a responsibility of the media?
Correct : A. passing remarks on the personal lives of film stars.
9. Cinema is a/an
Correct : D. audiovisual media
10. Which of the following would not give us city information?
Correct : A. seminar
11. When was colour TV transmission started in India?
Correct : C. in 1982
12. When was the first TV station set up in India?
Correct : C. september 1959; delhi
13. Who started The Tribune?
Correct : C. dyal singh majithia
14. Mass communication
Correct : B. is an impersonal tool for delivering information to the masses.
15. Which of the following is not an advantage of TV?
Correct : A. the audience remains glued to tv and hence, they do not do much physical work.
16. The term Press normally does not include
Correct : D. internet websites
17. Silence is also a form of
Correct : A. communication
18. Who called his mass communication theory as “cultivation of dominant image patterns”?
Correct : A. george gerbner
19. Communication needs a
Correct : D. all of the above
20. Communication helps in
Correct : D. all of the above
21. Intrapersonal communication is
Correct : C. talking to oneself.
22. Which of the communication has an emotional appeal?
Correct : C. interpersonal communication
23. Who introduced the concept of noise in model of communication?
Correct : B. claude shannon and warren weaver
24. What is the name of that continent which first published the newspaper in the world?
Correct : C. europe
25. On March 11, 1702, the first daily newspaper appeared in London called
Correct : B. daily courant
26. Who is the 18th century’s most important journalist?
Correct : D. daniel defoe
27. Who started the Father and Spectator?
Correct : C. steele and addison
28. The age of satellite communication began in the year
Correct : A. 1962
29. Aurobindo was the editor of
Correct : C. vande mataram
30. Which of the following is/are called as fourth estate?
Correct : D. all of the above
31. Highest number of newspapers published in India are in
Correct : C. hindi
32. The largest number of newspapers in English are published from
Correct : C. delhi
33. Largest circulated periodical in India is
Correct : A. saras salil
34. Majority of the newspapers in India are owned by
Correct : D. individuals
35. Wireless telegraphy was developed by
Correct : D. guglielmo marconi
36. Who gave the following definition of mass communication …….who says what in which
channel to who with what effect?
Correct : B. harold d. lasswell
37. Who presented the ‘Mathematical’ model of communication?
Correct : D. shannon and weaver
38. Aristotlean model of communication does not have
Correct : A. feedback
39. Oldest English daily of India is
Correct : B. the times of india
40. World’s first newspaper Acta Diurna belonged to which country?
Correct : B. rome
41. When was the moving transmission of TV started?
Correct : B. 1987
42. Which country publishes maximum number of dailies in the world?
Correct : A. japan
43. Which of the following is the function of the ‘Mass Media’?
Correct : D. all of the above
44. What is called the fourth stage of the newsbook?
Correct : B. mercury
45. Journalist James Gordon Bennett was associated with
Correct : A. new york herald
46. In theoretical assessment, communication is equated with
Correct : A. language
47. ‘Black Box’ effect theory is related to
Correct : C. communication
48. The Tribune was first established at
Correct : D. lahore
49. Dow Jones is associated with the Indian newspaper
Correct : A. mint
50. The first person to use the term ‘gate keeper’ in communication was
Correct : A. kurt lewin
51. The Indian media group which has tied up with the Reuters
Correct : D. the times of india
52. The process of controlling the flow of information is
Correct : D. gatekeeping
53. The first ever language newspaper in India was started in
Correct : D. bengal
54. In which year was the United Press Association founded?
Correct : B. 1907
55. In which year International News Service (INS) marged with United Press Associations?
Correct : D. 1958
56. Ethical concepts change with
Correct : D. all of the above
57. The ‘watchdog’ of democracy’ is
Correct : A. the press
58. Usually people’s interaction with media is
Correct : D. all of the above
59. Who called our society as a ‘dramatized’ society?
Correct : D. raymond williams
60. In which newspaper did Gandhi write: “I have taken up journalism not for its sake, but merely
as an aid to what I have conceived to be my mission in life”.
Correct : B. young india
61. The name of the newspaper that Gandhi brought out in South Africa was
Correct : C. indian opinion
62. The outside world depicted by the media are consequences of
Correct : D. controlled conditions
63. The factual information in mass media is often referred to as
Correct : B. rrelational information
64. The phrase the people’s right to know was coined by
Correct : B. kent cooper
65. The Press Council set up under the Act of 1965 functioned till
Correct : B. december 1975
66. The Indian Institute of Mass Communication does not have a branch at
Correct : A. madurai (tamil nadu
67. “Freedom of information is a fundamental human right”. Which of the following explicitly
mentions this statement?
Correct : C. the un resolution 59, para i
68. The Vernacular Press Act (1878) was also called
Correct : C. lytton’s act
69. The First Press Council was set up in
Correct : C. 1966
70. The term of the Press Council is
Correct : D. 3 years
71. Which is the oldest feature agency operating in India?
Correct : D. india news and feature alliance
72. When was the office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) started?
Correct : A. 1 july 1956
73. When was Television introduced in India?
Correct : B. 15 september 1959
74. Which was the first Indian-owned English newspaper?
Correct : A. bengal gazette
75. Who made the registration of newspapers compulsory in 1835?
Correct : D. sir charles metcalfe
76. In which year was the Amrit Bazar Patrika first published?
Correct : C. 1868
77. Broadcasting subject is under the
Correct : C. union list
78. What created a pressure world within journalism?
Correct : D. telegraph
79. Journalists are like
Correct : C. painters
80. Milton’s views on press freedom is referred to as
Correct : B. areopagitica
81. Who was the Chairman of the First Press Council of India?
Correct : B. j.r. mudholkar
82. Who started Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1868?
Correct : A. moti lal ghosh andsisir ghosh
83. Who is deemed as the father of Indian Journalism?
Correct : D. j.a. hicky
84. The Pioneer was started in Allahabad in the year
Correct : A. 1865
85. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was associated with
Correct : D. maratha
86. The Fourth Estate is a name generally given to the Press, but previously, it was the term
applied to
Correct : D. all of the above
87. The office of the UNI is located at
Correct : D. rafi marg, new delhi
88. What is the other name of Hicky’s Bengal Gazettee?
Correct : C. calcutta general advertise
89. In which language was Amrita Bazar Patrika first published before changing over to English
language?
Correct : A. bengali
90. When was censorship introduced on Indian Press?
Correct : D. 1795
91. Who enforced the Vernacular Press Act?
Correct : D. lord lytton
92. When was the first Press Council is abolished?
Correct : A. on january 1, 1976
93. India’s largest News Agency is
Correct : C. pti
94. In which year Registrar of Newspapers for India came into being?
Correct : D. 1956
95. Who said “Newspapers should be both a daily teacher and a daily tribune”?