1. ……….were the first Europeans who introduced printing press in India.
Correct : D. portuguese
2. Annie Besant came to India on 16 November 1893 to attend the Annual Convention
of the Theosophical Society at ………..
Correct : A. adyar
3. Who founded a weekly newspaper ‘Commonweal’ in January 1914?
Correct : A. annie besant
4. Who started ‘new India’?
Correct : A. annie besant
5. Who started 'Young India'?
Correct : A. mahatma gandhi
6. Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.
Correct : B. indian opinion
7. A pioneering foursome embarked upon a publication entitled the Western Star from
………………in 1860.
Correct : A. cochin
8. ……………………, who had left England after completing his studies, took over as
the Western Star paper’s editor.
Correct : A. charles lawson
9. …………….migrated to Madras to launch the Madras Mail in later years.
Correct : C. lawson's maiden
10. The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by …………….
Correct : A. augustus hicky
11. Bengal gazette was the journal of ………………….
Correct : D. augustus hicky
12. The first Bangla newspaper, Samachar Darpan, was published from ……………in
1818.
Correct : B. serampore
13. The ‘Travancore Herald’, was printed in English from the C.M.S.
Press…………………..
Correct : A. kottayam
14. The Santishtavadi was outspoken in its criticism of the powers that be, and soon fell
foul of the ……………….Government which ordered its closure.
Correct : D. travancore
15. The …………………created history in Malayalam journalism by becoming the first
martyr to the cause of freedom of the press.
Correct : A. santishtavadi
16. The Malayalam paper ‘Satyanadakahalam’ started publication modestly as a
fortnightly from Kunammavu in October…………...
Correct : D. 1876
17. Satyanadakahalam was published under the auspices of the ……………..Carmelite
Mission, with the Rev.Fr.Candidus designated as its first editor.
Correct : C. italian
18. From 1900 ……………….was issued thrice a month. Four years later it was
converted into a weekly.
Correct : C. satyanadom
19. In 1926 a change in format was introduced and the ………………….joined the early
ranks of 'illustrated weeklies'.
Correct : A. satyanadom
20. The Tiruvathancore Abhimani began to publish ……………..
Correct : A. 1878
21. The Keralopakari published from Malabar, which had the distinction of being the
…………..printed magazine issuing from this area.
Correct : A. first
22. Incidentally, the Keralopakari was printed from the Basel Mission Press located
at………………..
Correct : A. mangalore
23. Devji Bhimji started a printing press at ……………in 1865 under the name of the
Keralamitram Press.
Correct : C. cochin
24. Devji Bhimji started a printing press at Cochin in …………. under the name of the
Keralamitram Press.
Correct : A. 1865
25. Devji Bhimji had co-sponsored the English Western Star in 1860 and the Malayalam
Paschimataraka in……………..
Correct : A. 1864
26. The Keralamitram began to publish ………………..
Correct : A. 188
27. The first book printed in India was in …………….language in Old Goa.
Correct : D. portugese
28. The Keralamitram was fortunate in that it had as its first editor none other than Kandathil Varghese Mappilai who later founded the………………...
Correct : A. malayalamanorama
29. An English weekly entitled the West Coast Spectator started publication in
……………. from Kozhikode.
Correct : D. 1879
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. The Bengali Gazette was started by ……………………in 1816.
Correct : D. gangadhar bhattacharjee
34. A significant development was the publication in 1884 of the Keralapatrika
weekly from…………….
Correct : A. kozhikode
35. The author of “The Jungle Book”, Rudyard Kipling, started ………….in 1866 from Allahabad.
Correct : D. the pioneer
36. Gandhiji started the ……………under the editorship of Mahadev Desai.
Correct : A. harijan
37. Who ……………..launched a weekly, called the “Navjeevan”, in Gujarati?
Correct : A. gandhiji
38. ……………..was printed from the Vidyavilasom Press and had the active backing of
a number of prominent personalities of the day.
Correct : A. keralapatrika
39. The Atmavidyakahalam edited by Vagbhadananda Guru from …………….in the late
thirties was yet another weekly noted for its sharp attacks against superstitions and conventions.
Correct : A. kozhikode
40. …………………..is sometimes called the "father of Malayalam Journalism".
Correct : A. chengulathu kunhirama menon
41. The management of the ……………..changed hands in 1938 some time after the
death of Kunhirama Menon.
Correct : C. keralapatrika
42. The management of the Keralapatrika changed hands in 1938 some time after the
death of……………….
Correct : A. kunhirama menon
43. The Spectator Press of Kozhikode came out in 1886 with a Malayalam periodical
entitled the…………………..
Correct : A. kerala sanchari
44. …………………was edited by Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, otherwise well- known by his pen-name "Kesari".
Correct : A. kerala sanchari
45. …………………..was associated with the periodical for some time in 1897 as Kerala
Sanchari’s editor.
Correct : B. moorkoth kumaran
46. Bengal Gazette was published by ……………………
Correct : A. james augustus hicky
47. Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first
published on 4 March …………………
Correct : B. 1784
48. 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
49. Who was the owner of the Calcutta Morning Post?
Correct : B. mr. heatly
50. The Calcutta Journal, a new newspaper was launched by …………
Correct : A. james silk buckingham
51. ………………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
52. In 1684 the English East India Company set up a printing press in ………………..
Correct : B. bombay
53. When the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
Correct : B. 1878
54. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act?
Correct : B. lord lytton
55. Which Act came to be nicknamed as the Gagging Act?
Correct : A. the vernacular press act
56. …………………, a teacher and reformist, started the first Bangla weekly Bengal
Gazette in early 1818
Correct : A. ganga kishore bhattacharya
57. Raja Rammohan set up……………………
Correct : A. sambad kaumudi
58. Raja Rammohan set up ………………….in English
Correct : A. brahminical magazine
59. Raja Rammohan set up the …………………………in Persian
Correct : A. mirat-ul-akbar
60. The government of India established the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI) in …………….. on the recommendation of the first Press Commission.
Correct : B. 1956
61. Who established Serampore Mission, India’s first Christian missionary organisation.
Correct : A. william carey
62. Serampore Mission was established on 10 January ………………
Correct : B. 1800
63. Who was called as the ‘Liberator of the Indian Press’?
Correct : A. charles metcalfe
64. The Mumbai Samachar is the oldest newspaper in India, published in …………and is
one of the most trusted newspapers of Mumbai.
Correct : A. gujarati
65. Who brought out the Newspaper, the Bombay Samachar, in 1822.
Correct : A. fardoonji murazban
66. The Madras Courier was started in ……………
Correct : D. 1785
67. Who was the founder of the newspaper ‘The Madras Courier’?
Correct : D. richard johnson
68. Who launched in 1858 a Bangla weekly ‘Som Prakash’?
Correct : D. iswar chandra
69. In 1875, Robert Knight founded ………………………
Correct : D. the statesman
70. Who was the founder of the newspaper “The Hindu”(1878)?
Correct : A. kasturi ranga iyengar
71. Vernacular Press Act was passed in ………….
Correct : D. 1878
72. Who passed Vernacular Press Act?
Correct : D. lord lytton
73. The appearance of the …………….from Tellicherry in 1907 marks the next
important milestone in the history of the press in Kerala.
Correct : A. mitavadi
74. ……………….., who had already tried his hand successfully at other journalistic
ventures, occupied the editorial chair of Mitavadi.
Correct : A. moorkoth kumaran
75. Mahakavi Kumaran Asan's famous poem, Veena Poovu was first published in
the………………..
Correct : A. mitavadi
76. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper 'Kesari' in …………..
Correct : A. marathi
77. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper ‘Maratha’ in………………
Correct : A. english
78. ‘The Spectator’ was an English-language newspaper published from …………..
Correct : A. madras
79. Kerala Kaumudi paper initially started publication from……………. Later, it was
shifted to Kollam and then to Thiruvananthapuram.
Correct : B. mayyanad
80. Kerala Kaumudi was converted into a full-fledged daily in…………..
Correct : D. 1940
81. ……………. who rose to prominence as general secretary of the S.N.D.P. yogam
started publication of the Desabhimani in 1915.
Correct : A. t.k.madhavan
82. The ………………of 1915 rendered Yeoman Service in pin-pointing the grievances,
political and social, of the Ezhava community and seeking redressal.
Correct : A. desabhimani
83. The apogee of Madhavan’s reputation and influence as a journalist came with the
famous satyagraha at the …………..temple.
Correct : D. vaikom
84. The Sahodaran was published by ……………from Cherayi in 1917.
Correct : A. k.ayyappan
85. …………………..encouraged rationalist thought and the socialist doctrine.
Correct : B. k.ayyappan
86. In fact, in 1933, ………………launched a publication, the Velakkaran, modeled
along the British Daily Worker and devoted in the main to the labour movement.
Correct : A. k.ayyappan
87. …………….was associated with two other publications-the Yuktivadi and the Stree.
Correct : D. k.ayyappan
88. ’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
89. Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper started in 1910 by …………..
Correct : A. sir pherozeshah mehta
90. Mathrubhumi was first published on 18th March, ……….
Correct : A. 1923
91. The founder of ‘Mathrubhumi’, the Malayalam language newspaper was the
renowned freedom fighter ………….
Correct : A. k. p. kesava menon
92. Who founded the newspaper ‘National Herald’?
Correct : B. jawaharlal nehru
93. ‘Yugantar’ was started by …………..
Correct : B. barindra kumar ghosh
94. In 1930 the government confiscated the ‘Al Ameen’ press and in ………….. the
paper was completely closed down.
Correct : C. 1939
95. After independence Al Ameen was re launched by …………….who was a close
disciple of Muhammed Abdul Rahman, and it continued for a long time.
Correct : A. moidu maoulavi
96. Being an admirer of Subhas Chandra Bose, …………………associated himself with
the Forward Block formed by Netaji.
Correct : A. abdul rahiman sahib
97. The Second World War broke out, and Mohammed Abdul Rahiman Sahib was
kept in jail from 1940 to 1945 by the…………….
Correct : B. british
98. Muhammed Abdul Rahman died on November 23, 1945 at Pottashery village near
………………….just after addressing a public meeting at Kodiyathur.
Correct : A. chennamangallur
99. Muhammed Abdul Rahman died on November 23, 1945 at Pottashery village near
Chennamangallur just after addressing a public meeting at………………………..
Correct : B. kodiyathur
100. The Samadarshi which commenced publication from ………………..in 1918 was a
powerful and popular vehicle of public opinion.