Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism in India 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 opinio
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 ghos
b. maulana abdul kalam aza
c. raja ram mohan roy
d. syed abdulla brelvi
Q. The Keralamitram was fortunate in that it had as its first editor none other than Kandathil Varghese Mappilai who later founded the………………...
a. malayalamanorama
b. yuvabharatham
c. malayala rajyam
d. kerala kesari
Q. An English weekly entitled the West Coast Spectator started publication in……………. from Kozhikode.
a. 1819
b. 1829
c. 1849
d. 1879
Q. The Bengali Gazette was started by ……………………in 1816.
a. mother theresa
b. rabindranath tagore
c. sir v raman
d. gangadhar bhattacharjee
Q. 38. A significant development was the publication in 1884 of the Keralapatrikaweekly from…………….
a. kozhikode
b. cochin
c. travancore
d. thrissur
Q. The author of “The Jungle Book”, Rudyard Kipling, started ………….in 1866 from Allahabad.
a. the statesman
b. the times of india
c. the amrita bazar patrika
d. the pioneer