Quiz on National PRESS Day- PRESSmedia with Certificate

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  • Release Date :: 16.11.2024
  • Presents ‘PRESSmedia’ an Online Quiz on ‘National PRESS Day’ (Observed on 16th November)
  • All Questions are based on general knowledge and interesting facts about Indian Press movement.
  • PRESSmedia Online Quiz consists of 25-MCQs – Multiple Choice Questions.
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  • Each question carries 4 points.
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  1. Which organisation commemorates National Press Day in India?
    4 points
    Press Trust of India (PTI)
    Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
    Press Council of India (PCI)

    Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
  2. Which constitutional right guarantees freedom of the press in India?
    4 points
    Article 19(1)(a)

    Article 21
    Article 370
    Article 14
  3. Which newspaper played a significant role in India’s freedom struggle?
    4 points
    Mumbai Mirror
    The Hindustan Times
    Loksatta
    Gramin Patrika
  4. Who among the following was a renowned Indian journalist and editor of ‘The Statesman’, known for his contributions to the field of journalism?
    4 points
    Amartya Sen
    Raghuram Rajan
    C. Rajagopalachari
    C. R. Irani
  5. The first newspaper published in India was?
    4 points
    The Bengal Gazette

    The Bombay Samachar
    The Hindu
    The Indian Express
  6. Which committee recommended the establishment of a Press Council in India?
    4 points
    Kothari Committee
    Press Commission
    Gore Committee
    B. N. Rau Committee
  7. Who among the following published first newspaper in India?
    4 points
    James Augustus Hickey
    Lord William Bentinck
    Lord Cornwallis
    Sir Thomas Munro
  8. Which of the following regulation envision that press without licence was a penal offence?
    4 points
    Press Act of 1835 or Metcalfe Act
    Lord Wellesley enacted Censorship of Press Act, 1799
    Licensing Regulations, 1823
    Licensing Act, 1857
  9. Which of the following act relaxed the restrictions put by the Metcalf Act?
    4 points
    Licensing Act, 1857
    Press Act of 1835
    Vernacular Press Act, 1878
    Registration Act, 1867
  10. Who were the first Europeans, brought a printing press to India?
    4 points
    French
    Dutch
    English
    Portuguese
  11. Which of the following was the first book published in India by Portuguese?
    4 points
    Conclusoes Eoutras Coisas

    Jesus of Pondicherry
    The Christian Monarch
    The Scheme of William Bolts
  12. Who among the started Bombay Samachar?
    4 points
    Fardaonji Murzban
    Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    James Silk Buckingham
    Shishir Kumar Ghosh
  13. Who was called “Liberator of India Press”?
    4 points
    Lord William Bentinck
    Lord Metcalfe
    Lord Auckland
    Lord Ellenborough
  14. Which Viceroy passed the Vernacular Press Act and the Arms Act of 1878?
    4 points
    Lord Lytton

    Lord Mayo
    Lord Dalhousie
    Lord Hardinge
  15. The name of Barindra Ghosh is associated with which among the following newspapers?
    4 points
    Indian Opinion
    Jugantar Patrika
    Gadar Patrika
    Maharatta
  16. Who edited and published the newspaper Indian Mirror in 1861?
    4 points
    Satyajit Ray
    Ravindranath Tagore
    Sumit Ganguly
    Manmohan Ghosh
  17. Who founded the newspaper ‘Sambad Kaumudi’?
    4 points
    Rash Bihari Bose
    Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    Shishir Kumar Ghosh
    Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
  18. The first Gujarati newspaper was started in which city of India?
    4 points
    Bombay

    Punjab
    Bengal
    Porbandar
  19. Which of the following Act was nicknamed as ‘The Gagging Act’?
    4 points
    Licensing act, 1857
    Indian Press Act, 1910
    Vernacular Press Act, 1878
    Censorship of Press Act, 1799
  20. Under Vernacular Press Act, proceedings were instituted against which newspaper?
    4 points
    Amrita Bazar Patrika
    Bharat Mihir and Som Prakash
    Bombay Patrika
    Divya Hindustan
  21. Hindi newspaper ‘Hindustan’ was started by whom?
    4 points
    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Madan Mohan Malviya
    Surendra Nath Banerjee
    Subhash Chandra Bose
  22. Who published Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’?
    4 points
    James Hickey
    Jugal Kishor Sharma
    Annie Besant
    Shyamaprasad Mukherjee
  23. In which year, print media started in India?
    4 points
    1980
    1880
    1780
    1680
  24. ‘Bombay Herald’ used to publish in which language?
    4 points
    English
    Hindi
    Marathi
    Bengali
  25. In which year English newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ was started in India?
    4 points
    1982

    1882
    1782
    1682

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