Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism 1 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who is known as Indian Gutenberg?
a. james augustus hicky
b. john de bustamante
c. john bosco
d. col. james todd
Q. The printing press was introduced in India during
a. the thirteenth century
b. the fourteenth century
c. the fifteenth century
d. the sixteenth century
Q. When Mahatma Gandhi was in South Africa he started which newspaper?
a. young india
b. indian opinion
c. reformer
d. hindustan
Q. The oldest survivings newspaper of India is
a. the statesman
b. the times of india
c. malayalam manorama
d. mumbai samachar
Q. Who was the owner of The Hindu?
a. k.r. iyengar
b. surendranath banerjee
c. mahatma gandhi
d. motilal ghosh
Q. Mirat-ul-Akbar belonged to
a. aurobindo ghosh
b. maulana abdul kalam azad
c. raja ram mohan roy
d. syed abdulla brelvi
Q. The first printed book published in China was the Buddhist text, the “Diamond Sutra” by ……………….in 868 AD.
a. wang chick
b. david henry
c. edward cave
d. richard cave
Q. The first book printed in India was in …………….language in Old Goa.
a. french
b. dutch
c. british
d. portugese
Q. In 1784, ……………launched the “Daily Universal Register” from London which later adopted a new name “The Times”.
a. john walter
b. francis xavier
c. johann carlous
d. james asher
Q. Who started the paper “The Boston Newsletter”?
a. samuel johnson
b. e. mallet
c. william wordsworth
d. john campbell
Q. On January 29, 1780 James Augustus Hickey launched the ………….
a. samachar darpan
b. indian gazette
c. “calcutta gazette
d. bengal gazette
Q. Who edited a PersianWeekly called ‘Mirat-ul-Akhbar’.
a. ronald rose
b. bal gangadhar tilak
c. mahatma gandhi
d. raja ram mohan roy
Q. Who is the author of “The Jungle Book”?
a. tilak
b. amartya sen
c. mahatma gandhi
d. rudyard kipling