Deck 1: A History of Journalism and Printing Press in India

Question 1

……….were the first Europeans who introduced printing press in India.

A)british
B)french
C)dutch
D)portuguese

Answer 1

portuguese

Question 2

Annie Besant came to India on 16 November 1893 to attend the Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society at ………..

A)adyar
B)banglore
C)trivandrum
D)tirunelveli

Answer 2

adyar

Question 3

Who founded a weekly newspaper 'Commonweal' in January 1914?

A)annie besant
B)s.n.b banerje
C)sir syed ahmad khan
D)mahatma gandhi

Answer 3

annie besant

Question 4

Who started 'Young India'?

A)mahatma gandhi
B)annie besant
C)madan mohan malviya
D)pherozeshah mehta

Question 5

Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.

A)my experiments with truth
B)indian opinion
C)young india
D)new india'

Question 6

A pioneering foursome embarked upon a publication entitled the Western Star from ………………in 1860.

A)cochin
B)travancore
C)irinjalakkuda
D)palakkad

Question 7

……………………, who had left England after completing his studies, took over as the Western Star paper's editor.

A)charles lawson
B)devji bhimji
C)c.v.raman pillai
D)dr.herman gundart

Question 8

…………….migrated to Madras to launch the Madras Mail in later years.

A)c.v.raman pillai
B)devji bhimji
C)lawson's maiden
D)charles lawson

Question 9

The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by …………….

A)augustus hicky
B)mckinley
C)hermione granger
D)john pilger

Question 10

Bengal gazette was the journal of ………………….

A)edmund burke
B)samuel f. b. morse
C)john pilger
D)augustus hicky

Question 11

The first Bangla newspaper, Samachar Darpan, was published from ……………in 1818.

A)calcutta
B)serampore
C)madras
D)bombay

Question 12

The 'Travancore Herald', was printed in English from the C.M.S. Press…………………..

A)kottayam
B)cochin
C)travancore
D)trissur

Question 13

The Santishtavadi was outspoken in its criticism of the powers that be, and soon fell foul of the ……………….Government which ordered its closure.

A)thrissur
B)cochin
C)irinjalakkuda
D)travancore

Question 14

The …………………created history in Malayalam journalism by becoming the first martyr to the cause of freedom of the press.

A)santishtavadi
B)the malabar spectator
C)atmavidhya kahalam
D)swaraj

Question 15

The Malayalam paper 'Satyanadakahalam' started publication modestly as a fortnightly from Kunammavu in October…………...

A)1816
B)1826
C)1836
D)1876

Question 16

Satyanadakahalam was published under the auspices of the ……………..Carmelite Mission, with the Rev.Fr.Candidus designated as its first editor.

A)british
B)german
C)italian
D)spanish

Question 17

From 1900 ……………….was issued thrice a month. Four years later it was converted into a weekly.

A)atmavidhya kahalam
B)keralopakari
C)satyanadom
D)swaraj

Question 18

In 1926 a change in format was introduced and the ………………….joined the early ranks of 'illustrated weeklies'.

A)satyanadom
B)the malabar spectator
C)keralopakari
D)malayalamitram

Question 19

The Tiruvathancore Abhimani began to publish ……………..

A)1878
B)1883
C)1886
D)1889

Question 20

The Keralopakari published from Malabar, which had the distinction of being the …………..printed magazine issuing from this area.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 21

Incidentally, the Keralopakari was printed from the Basel Mission Press located at………………..

A)mangalore
B)cochin
C)travancore
D)irinjalakkuda

Question 22

Devji Bhimji started a printing press at ……………in 1865 under the name of the Keralamitram Press.

A)irinjalakkuda
B)travancore
C)cochin
D)palakkad

Question 23

Devji Bhimji started a printing press at Cochin in …………. under the name of the Keralamitram Press.

A)1865
B)1869
C)1875
D)1895

Question 24

Devji Bhimji had co-sponsored the English Western Star in 1860 and the Malayalam Paschimataraka in……………..

A)1864
B)1868
C)1874
D)1879