Deck 4: Newspapers and Journalism

Question 1

'The Spectator' was an English-language newspaper published from …………..

A)madras
B)bombay
C)bihar
D)assam

Answer 1

madras

Question 2

The All India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka in ………….

A)1806
B)1906
C)1909
D)196

Answer 2

1906

Question 3

Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society in May …………

A)1889
B)1899
C)1907
D)1909

Answer 3

1889

Question 4

Annie Besant was elected President of the Theosophical Society in

A)1907
B)1909
C)1943
D)1946

Question 5

Annie Besant came to India on 16 November 1893 to attend the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society at ………..

A)adyar
B)banglore
C)trivandrum
D)tirunelveli

Question 6

Who founded a weekly newspaper Commonweal in January 1914?

A)annie besant
B)s.n.b banerje
C)sir syed ahmad khan
D)mahatma gandhi

Question 7

Who started 'new India'?

A)annie besant
B)mahatma gandhi
C)lord rippon
D)wellesley c) delhousie

Question 8

Who started 'Young India'?

A)mahatma gandhi
B)annie besant
C)madan mohan malviya
D)pherozeshah mehta

Question 9

Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.

A)my experiments with truth
B)indian opinion
C)young india
D)new india'

Question 10

'My Experiments with Truth' is the biography of …………

A)madan mohan malviya
B)mahatma gandhi
C)s.n.b banerje
D)sir syed ahmad khan

Question 11

Who started newspaper 'Harijan'?

A)madan mohan malviya
B)gandhiji
C)s.n.b banerje
D)sir syed ahmad khan

Question 12

The Leader was one of the most influential English-language newspapers in India during British Raj which was Founded by ………

A)s.n. banerje
B)madan mohan malviya
C)sir syed ahmad khan
D)k. p. kesava menon

Question 13

Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper started in 1910 by …………..

A)sir pherozeshah mehta
B)madan mohan malviya
C)k. p. kesava menon
D)gandhiji

Question 14

Mathrubhumi was first published on 18th March, ……….

A)1923
B)1933
C)1935
D)1936

Question 15

The founder of 'Mathrubhumi', the Malayalam language newspaper was the renowned freedom fighter ………….

A)k. p. kesava menon
B)madan mohan malviya
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)annie besant

Question 16

Who founded the newspaper 'National Herald'?

A)madan mohan malviya
B)jawaharlal nehru
C)annie besant
D)tilak

Question 17

'Yugantar' was started by …………..

A)madan mohan malviya
B)barindra kumar ghosh
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)patel

Question 18

………………….started publication of the journal 'Ghadar'.

A)madan mohan malviya
B)lala hardayal
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)annie besant

Question 19

Find the odd one out of the following:

A)cable tv
B)television
C)radio
D)newspaper

Question 20

Find the odd one out of the following:

A)audio communication
B)aural communication
C)verbal communication
D)visual communication

Question 21

To choose the news items for the newspaper and to correct the language, spelling and remove all the unimportant sentences are the functions of

A)reporter
B)editor
C)writer
D)none of the above

Question 22

To keep only the essential parts in the picture is called

A)cropping
B)editing
C)edging
D)none of the above

Question 23

Which composing method is also called as cold type setting?

A)machine setting
B)phototype setting
C)hand setting
D)none of the above

Question 24

Headlines are generally given by

A)photographers
B)reporters
C)editors
D)page designers