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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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- 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) - Which constitutional right guarantees freedom of the press in India?
4 points
Article 19(1)(a)
Article 21
Article 370
Article 14 - Which newspaper played a significant role in India’s freedom struggle?
4 points
Mumbai Mirror
The Hindustan Times
Loksatta
Gramin Patrika - 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 - The first newspaper published in India was?
4 points
The Bengal Gazette
The Bombay Samachar
The Hindu
The Indian Express - Which committee recommended the establishment of a Press Council in India?
4 points
Kothari Committee
Press Commission
Gore Committee
B. N. Rau Committee - Who among the following published first newspaper in India?
4 points
James Augustus Hickey
Lord William Bentinck
Lord Cornwallis
Sir Thomas Munro - 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 - 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 - Who were the first Europeans, brought a printing press to India?
4 points
French
Dutch
English
Portuguese - 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 - Who among the started Bombay Samachar?
4 points
Fardaonji Murzban
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
James Silk Buckingham
Shishir Kumar Ghosh - Who was called “Liberator of India Press”?
4 points
Lord William Bentinck
Lord Metcalfe
Lord Auckland
Lord Ellenborough - Which Viceroy passed the Vernacular Press Act and the Arms Act of 1878?
4 points
Lord Lytton
Lord Mayo
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Hardinge - The name of Barindra Ghosh is associated with which among the following newspapers?
4 points
Indian Opinion
Jugantar Patrika
Gadar Patrika
Maharatta - Who edited and published the newspaper Indian Mirror in 1861?
4 points
Satyajit Ray
Ravindranath Tagore
Sumit Ganguly
Manmohan Ghosh - Who founded the newspaper ‘Sambad Kaumudi’?
4 points
Rash Bihari Bose
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Shishir Kumar Ghosh
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - The first Gujarati newspaper was started in which city of India?
4 points
Bombay
Punjab
Bengal
Porbandar - 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 - Under Vernacular Press Act, proceedings were instituted against which newspaper?
4 points
Amrita Bazar Patrika
Bharat Mihir and Som Prakash
Bombay Patrika
Divya Hindustan - Hindi newspaper ‘Hindustan’ was started by whom?
4 points
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Madan Mohan Malviya
Surendra Nath Banerjee
Subhash Chandra Bose - Who published Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’?
4 points
James Hickey
Jugal Kishor Sharma
Annie Besant
Shyamaprasad Mukherjee - In which year, print media started in India?
4 points
1980
1880
1780
1680 - ‘Bombay Herald’ used to publish in which language?
4 points
English
Hindi
Marathi
Bengali - In which year English newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ was started in India?
4 points
1982
1882
1782
1682