Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism in India MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who was the founder of the newspaper ‘The Madras Courier’?
a. vallabhbhai patel
b. mohare hanamanthraya
c. jawaharlal nehru
d. richard johnson
Q. Who launched in 1858 a Bangla weekly ‘Som Prakash’?
a. mohare hanamanthraya
b. robert knight
c. richard johnson
d. iswar chandra
Q. In 1875, Robert Knight founded ………………………
a. the calcutta chronicle
b. the calcutta gazette
c. the bengal journal
d. the statesman
Q. Who was the founder of the newspaper “The Hindu”(1878)?
a. kasturi ranga iyengar
b. jogendra nath bose
c. dinabandhu mitra
d. robert knight
Q. The appearance of the …………….from Tellicherry in 1907 marks the nextimportant milestone in the history of the press in Kerala.
a. mitavadi
b. yuktivadi
c. malayala rajyam
d. kerala kesari
Q. ……………….., who had already tried his hand successfully at other journalisticventures, occupied the editorial chair of Mitavadi.
a. moorkoth kumaran
b. ramakrishna pillai
c. k.p.kesava menon
d. k.madhavan nair
Q. Mahakavi Kumaran Asan's famous poem, Veena Poovu was first published inthe………………..
a. mitavadi
b. yuvabharatham
c. malayala rajyam
d. kerala kesari
Q. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper 'Kesari' in …………..
a. marathi
b. english
c. hindi
d. malayalam
Q. Lokmanya Tilak started the newspaper ‘Maratha’ in………………
a. english
b. gujarathi
c. marathi
d. hindi
Q. ‘The Spectator’ was an English-language newspaper published from …………..
a. madras
b. bombay
c. bihar
d. assam
Q. Kerala Kaumudi paper initially started publication from……………. Later, it wasshifted to Kollam and then to Thiruvananthapuram.
a. cochin
b. mayyanad
c. travancore
d. thrissoor