Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism 1 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ………………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.
a. the french
b. the portuguese
c. the english
d. the dutch
Q. In 1684 the English East India Company set up a printing press in ………………..
a. gujarat
b. bombay
c. calcutta
d. madras
Q. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act?
a. lord wellesley
b. lord lytton
c. lord hastings
d. lord william bentinck
Q. Which Act came to be nicknamed as the Gagging Act?
a. the vernacular press act
b. act of 1858
c. act of 1909
d. act of 1919
Q. …………………, a teacher and reformist, started the first Bangla weekly Bengal Gazette in early 1818
a. ganga kishore bhattacharya
b. herbert harrington
c. edmond morris
d. pierre brissot
Q. Raja Rammohan set up……………………
a. sambad kaumudi
b. the amrita bazar patrika
c. the statesman
d. the hindu
Q. Raja Rammohan set up ………………….in English
a. brahminical magazine
b. the tribune
c. the hindustan times
d. the statesman
Q. Raja Rammohan set up the …………………………in Persian
a. mirat-ul-akbar
b. the times of india
c. the hindu
d. mumbai samachar
Q. Who established Serampore Mission, India’s first Christian missionary organisation.
a. william carey
b. lord ellenborough
c. b.messink
d. peter reed
Q. Who was called as the ‘Liberator of the Indian Press’?
a. charles metcalfe
b. lord lytton
c. lord wellesly
d. lord mecaulay
Q. The Mumbai Samachar is the oldest newspaper in India, published in …………and is one of the most trusted newspapers of Mumbai.
a. gujarati
b. marathi
c. hindi
d. kannada
Q. Who brought out the Newspaper, the Bombay Samachar, in 1822
a. fardoonji murazban
b. mahatma gandhi
c. jawaharlal nehru
d. vallabhbhai patel