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Journalism And Public Opinion | Set 3

1. The Tribal Rights Act caters to which group?

Correct : B. All Tribals

2. The agreement splitting Vietnam in 1954 was signed at which place?

Correct : C. Geneva

3. On which festival day did the North Vieetnamese launch bomb attacks on the South?

Correct : D. Tet

4. What was the Israeli offensive in Gaza in 2008 called?

Correct : A. Operation Cast Lead

5. In 1954 Vietnam was divided along the _____ Parallel?

Correct : A. 17th

6. During the Gaza Conflict 2014 Gaza was ruled by which party?

Correct : D. Hamas

7. The Indo Pak War 1971 was fought over which of these?

Correct : D. Rann of Kutch

8. Which Country’s uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution?

Correct : A. Egypt

9. Arab Spring Movement in the middle East countries started from which Country?

Correct : D. Tunisia

10. Which Mode of media was used by the protestors to organize demonstrations; discrimination information about their activities, and raise local and global awareness of ongoing events

Correct : C. Social Media

11. What caused the Arab Spring in Yemen?

Correct : A. Resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh

12. What happened in Egypt Arab Spring?

Correct : C. Overthrow of Egyptian President HM

13. What Caused the Arab Spring in Syria?

Correct : B. Overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad

14. What event led to the launch of 'War on Terrorism'

Correct : A. 9/11 attacks

15. In which year was the ISIS formed

Correct : C. 1999

16. Which year was Osama Bin Laden killed?

Correct : D. 2011

17. Who was the US president when Osama Bin Laden was killed?

Correct : C. Barrack Obama

18. Which of the following organisations was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the US?

Correct : B. Al-Qaeda

19. ISIS gained prominence in which of the following events

Correct : B. Iraq War

20. Which US president first used the phrase 'War on terrorism'?

Correct : A. George W Bush

21. What is the main source of income for the ISIS

Correct : C. sale of oil

22. Public opinion is the aggregate of individuals

Correct : D. Attitude, value&belief

23. means rule of people

Correct : B. Democracy

24. A _____public opinion is extremely important for democracy

Correct : B. Vibrant

25. According to sociologist ______ each of them come when an issue arises and exits when it is solved

Correct : A. Herbet Blumer

26. The ----------- plays a large role in shaping public opinion

Correct : D. Media

27. The criticism of the press are mostly handled and controlled by the --------- class

Correct : A. Capitalilst

28. In ---------poll a small group of people are surveyed and extrapolated to large audience

Correct : D. Opinion poll

29. The Press is the ------- pillar of democracy

Correct : C. 4

30. In a democracy every -------------is free to propagate its news

Correct : A. Newspaper

31. Most media in a democracy have some form of ------------guiding them

Correct : D. Ideology

32. ------------ is an American scholar who claimed that press in present state is of no use to democracy

Correct : C. Walter Lippmann

33. Modern democracy started in USA after the American revolution in -----------

Correct : A. 1779

34. ------------- is a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control

Correct : B. Technocracy

35. ------------- completely rejected Lippmann view about democracy

Correct : C. Chomsy

36. Propaganda model attempts to explain the bias of mass media in terms of ------ filters

Correct : D. 5

37. Paul Lazarsfeld believed that most theories were based on -----------

Correct : C. Speculation

38. According to Lippmann there is a world outside and a ------------ in our heads

Correct : A. Picture

39. Maxwell, Mccombs and Donald conducted a research in North Carolina in ---------

Correct : D. 1968

40. Media influences public opinion , hence there is a strong co-relation between media and ----------

Correct : B. Public agenda

41. Which theory states that audience view only content that is useful to them

Correct : D. Uses and Gratification

42. As per the research nearly -------% of the news coverage is about politics

Correct : C. 70

43. After India Independence which political party was dominant ----------

Correct : C. Communist

44. Mamta Banerjee is with respect to ruling the --------------------party

Correct : D. Trinamool Congress

45. Exit polls are only interested in -----------and ----------------

Correct : B. Statistics and number

46. --------------in the year 1990 was inactive to curb the problem arising in election commission

Correct : C. Election Commission

47. The 1999 election was being held in ----------

Correct : B. Phases

48. 2014 general election was ------------- driven election

Correct : C. Personality

49. The ----------- initiative by BJP enabled the leaders and workers have personal connectivity

Correct : A. Chai pe charcha

50. In which year -------- Barack Obama ensured victory for the democrats in USA

Correct : B. 2008

51. The Indian -------------budget is the most important economic event of the year

Correct : A. Fiscal

52. From --------- to -----------India influenced by the policies of USSR

Correct : C. 1947to 1990

53. In May 1998, the NDA government led by Vajpayee undertook ------------Operation

Correct : B. Operation shakthi

54. In May ----------- Operation smiling Buddha By Indira Gandhi Government tested the nuclear weapon

Correct : C. 1974

55. In 2008 India signed an ------------------agreement with USA

Correct : A. Nuclear Treaty

56. -------------- said the left had lost the opportunity to recast as a liberal force

Correct : C. Vir Sanghvi

57. ------------- called the leftist had no understanding of Modern India’s aspiration

Correct : A. Barkha Dutt

58. In -----------war Israel occupied both Gaza and West bank

Correct : B. 1967

59. Israel and Palestine were part of British mandate till --------

Correct : D. 1948

60. The ------------media has continually portrayed Israel as the victim forced to respond to Palestinian threats

Correct : A. Western

61. The Media and the Gaza war happened in the -----------year

Correct : D. 2008

62. Israel launched an invasion of --------------in 2014

Correct : C. Gaza

63. US media were more sympathetic to ----------whereas British media was largely critical

Correct : A. Israel

64. ----------- threatened reporters inside Gaza

Correct : C. Hamas

65. The -----------press strongly supported the cause of Bangladesh

Correct : A. Indian

66. The progress of -------------- undergrounded force of Bengali freedom fighters

Correct : B. Mukti Bahini Movement

67. All India Radio had -------talks during the war

Correct : C. 22

68. The Indian media deliberately hit the sinister truth of Hindu genocide in ----------

Correct : A. East Pakistan

69. Almost 2.5 million Hindus were killed during the repression of east Pakistan in --------

Correct : C. 1971

70. During that time US prime minister ----------- supported the West Pakistan

Correct : D. Richard Nixon

71. The Vietnam war occurred from ---------to---------

Correct : C. 1959-1975

72. Who defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954

Correct : B. North Vietnam

73. The Vietnam war is called as the war lost by ----------

Correct : D. Media

74. --------------- war was the first war that issued full freedom to the press

Correct : C. Vietnam war

75. The --------------was controversial issue that many people still not agree with the way media covered it

Correct : A. Tet Offensive

76. When did Kargil war started and ended?

Correct : A. 1999

77. In a ______, elections are held, in which the public elect leaders who govern the country

Correct : A. Democracy

78. ______ determines which party and politicians come to power, and which policies are adopted.

Correct : C. Public opinion

79. The ______ plays a large role in shaping public opinion.

Correct : B. Media

80. ______ is not a tool for gauging public opinion.

Correct : D. Libraries

81. Criticism of the press is that they are mostly owned and controlled by the ______.

Correct : A. Capitalists

82. An ______ is a conversation between two people where questions are asked by the interviewer to the interviewee.

Correct : A. Interview

83. Citizen journalism is the practice of

Correct : C. Inviting readers and viewers to participate in the creation of news content

84. Nearly 70% of Indian news coverage is about ____________.

Correct : A. politics

85. _________________ parties are covered more often than radical ones.

Correct : A. Conservative and media-friendly

86. The media is biased when reporting about political issues in a way that it has ‘___________’ in every party whom they constantly cover.

Correct : A. favorite personalities

87. Instead of ideological bias and manifestos, more media coverage is given to _____________

Correct : A. speeches and inflammatory comments

88. The media tends to cover power struggles in political parties, but fails to cover the _________________ of the power struggles.

Correct : A. impact

89. Organizations which do not contest elections but support a party, get attention only for ________________.

Correct : A. some violent agitation, or when they take a stand not consistent with their party

90. Quite often, during the elections, media persons ignore to ______________, and buy into the claims of political parties and politicians.

Correct : A. do their own research

91. The best and only method for a journalist to assess public opinion is by __________________.

Correct : A. wide travelling and direct contacts with people

92. ___________________ are major factors influencing election results.

Correct : A. Caste, religion, money and muscle power

93. Media coverage of election results is influenced by caste factors which in turn impact the _________.

Correct : A. voter

94. If the media approaches an election with pre-conceived notions about a party's performance, it can lead to ______________.

Correct : A. shaping of an agenda where bright prospects of the party is reported

95. The appointment of ___________ as Chief Election Commissioner in 1990 saw electoral reforms of increasing security at election booths to curb muscle power, and making it mandatory for all candidates to declare their financial assets.

Correct : A. T N Seshan

96. In the 1999 elections which were being held in phases, fearing that the results of one phase could influence voters in the next phase, __________ were banned by the Election Commission for one month while the election was going on.

Correct : A. publishing of election poll or opinion polls

97. Budgets which allot large sums of money to welfare schemes and ignore industrial growth are __________ by the India media, as ‘populist budgets’.

Correct : A. dismissed

98. On the whole, in their reporting, analysis and editorials, newspapers and magazines have supported _________________.

Correct : A. liberalization and economic reforms

99. The media coverage of budget pre-liberalisation was ________ of the government's economic policies and attacked the budgets calling them 'anti-growth'.

Correct : A. not entirely supportive

100. Since the media houses were owned by rich industrialists who wanted opportunities for unlimited expansion, the pre-liberalisation budget were called 'anti-growth' budgets and the media tried to influence public opinion to support budgets which allowed ___________.

Correct : A. free trade and minimum restrictions on industrial growth