Deck 8: Indian Journalism and Press History: Part A

Question 1

In which year was the Amrit Bazar Patrika first published?

A)1875
B)1870
C)1868
D)1867

Answer 1

1868

Question 2

What created a pressure world within journalism?

A)monitor
B)tv
C)radio
D)telegraph

Answer 2

telegraph

Question 3

Journalists are like

A)publishers
B)photographers
C)painters
D)writers

Answer 3

painters

Question 4

Milton's views on press freedom is referred to as

A)star chamber
B)areopagitica
C)authoritarian
D)social responsibility

Question 5

Who was the Chairman of the First Press Council of India?

A)swarn singh
B)j.r. mudholkar
C)v.k.r.v. rao
D)r.s. sarkaria

Question 6

Who started Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1868?

A)moti lal ghosh andsisir ghosh
B)navin chandra railways
C)harish chandra mukherjee
D)b.k. bhatt and m.m. ghosh

Question 7

Who is deemed as the father of Indian Journalism?

A)s.n. banerjee
B)devendra nath ghosh
C)dadabhai nauroji
D)j.a. hicky

Question 8

The Pioneer was started in Allahabad in the year

A)1865
B)1876
C)1890
D)1901

Question 9

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was associated with

A)bombay times
B)indian gazettee
C)hindu
D)maratha

Question 10

The Fourth Estate is a name generally given to the Press, but previously, it was the term applied to

A)llawyers
B)the queen of england
C)the proletariat
D)all of the above

Question 11

The office of the UNI is located at

A)kg marg, new delhi
B)ballard estate, mumbai
C)veer savarkar marg, mumbai
D)rafi marg, new delhi

Question 12

What is the other name of Hicky's Bengal Gazettee?

A)bengal harkarv
B)the bengal news
C)calcutta general advertise
D)bengal journal

Question 13

In which language was Amrita Bazar Patrika first published before changing over to English language?

A)bengali
B)punjabi
C)urdu
D)hindi

Question 14

When was censorship introduced on Indian Press?

A)1792
B)1793
C)1794
D)1795

Question 15

Who enforced the Vernacular Press Act?

A)queen victoria
B)east india company
C)lord canning
D)lord lytton

Question 16

When was the first Press Council is abolished?

A)on january 1, 1976
B)on january 26, 1976
C)on december 12, 1976
D)on december 18, 1976

Question 17

India's largest News Agency is

A)uti
B)uni
C)pti
D)ians

Question 18

In which year Registrar of Newspapers for India came into being?

A)1942
B)1947
C)1952
D)1956

Question 19

Who said "Newspapers should be both a daily teacher and a daily tribune"?

A)jawaharlal nehru
B)edwin emery
C)joseph pulitzer
D)chester barnard

Question 20

Deccan Herald was started in the year

A)1940
B)1941
C)1948
D)1949

Question 21

Gandhiji started Harijan in

A)1932
B)1933
C)1935
D)1937

Question 22

Independent was started by

A)jawaharlal nehru
B)gandhi
C)motilal nehru
D)lal bahadur shastri

Question 23

Navjivan was started by

A)kalanath shastri
B)gandhi
C)moti lal nehri
D)jawaharlal nehru

Question 24

Young India was later renamed as

A)navjivan
B)harijan
C)kalyan
D)none of the above