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Journalism and Mass Communication Objective Questions (DMCQ)
Q 1. The Bengali Gazette was started by ……………………in 1816.
(A) Mother Theresa
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Sir C. V Raman
(D) Gangadhar Bhattacharjee
Correct Answer: (D) Gangadhar Bhattacharjee
Explanation: James Augustus Hicky published the Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. This newspaper started in 1780 but closed down within two years. Later, Gangadhar Bhattacharya started publishing a separate newspaper called the Bengal Gazette. This newspaper started in 1816.
Q 2. Who ……………..launched a weekly, called the “Navjeevan”, in Gujarati?
(A) Gandhiji
(B) Nathaniel Butter
(C) Nicholas Bourne
(D) Henry Muddiman
Correct Answer: (A) Gandhiji
Explanation: Navjivan India is an Indian newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd who began publishing the daily Navjivan on 1 November 1947. Earlier, a newspaper called Navjivan was published by Mohandas Gandhi, therefore with his permission, The Associate Journals started publishing Navjivan.
Q 3. Publick Occurrences’ was a newspaper published by …………………
(A) Benjamin Harris
(B) William Bradford
(C) John Peter Zenger
(D) Nicholas Bourne
Correct Answer: (A) Benjamin Harris
Explanation: Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25, 1690.
Q 4. Columns means …………………
(A) Signed articles that express the writer’s reporting and his conclusions
(B) Movie reviews
(C) Public records
(D) Listening where news is taking place
Correct Answer: (A) Signed articles that express the writer’s reporting and his conclusions
Explanation: A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns allotted to them by the newspaper organisation. Columns are written by columnists.
Q 5. The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by ……………
(A) Augustus Hicky
(B) McKinley
(C) Hermione Granger
(D) John Pilger
Correct Answer: (A) Augustus Hicky
Explanation: The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by James Augustus Hicky by publishing a weekly journal named Hicky’s Bengal Gazette at Calcutta in January 1780.
Q 6. Who was nicknamed as the “Father of Yellow Journalism.”?
(A) William Randolph Hearst
(B) Benjamin Harris
(C) William Bradford
(D) Nicholas Bourne
Correct Answer: (A) William Randolph Hearst
Explanation: Hearst’s powerful articles pushed many Americans towards war with Spain. Because of his leading role in inciting the war, Hearst was nicknamed the “Father of Yellow Journalism.” Hearst made some very intelligent moves as he tried to out-maneuver Pulitzer. He hired Pulitzer’s writers for more money.
Q 7. Enterprise or Investigative stories means …………………
(A) Stories that uncover information that few people knew
(B) Unsigned articles that express a publication’s opinion
(C) Restaurant or movie reviews
(D) Online diaries kept by individuals or small groups
Correct Answer: (A) Stories that uncover information that few people knew
Explanation: ‘Enterprise journalism is reporting that is not generated by news or a press release, but rather generated by a reporter or news organization based on developed sources.’
Q 8. The ……………government had a network of news-services-the waqai-navis, sawanih-navis, and khufia-navis.
(A) Sultanate
(B) Mughal
(C) British
(D) French
Correct Answer: (B) Mughal
Explanation: The Mughal government had a network of news services the waqai-navis, sawanih-navis and khufia-navis. In addition there were harkarah and akhbarnavis for serving the royalties with general informant. The bhats, kathaks and narasundars used to provide the people with social and cultural information. However, due to despotic forms and character of the government and impossibility of reporting objectively, the proto-Journalism of Mughal Bengal could never grow into journalism in its proper sense.
Q 9. The radio was invented by …………..in 1901 which made sending of human voices over long distances possible.
(A) Alexander Graham Bell
(B) Marconi
(C) John Pilger
(D) Edmund Burke
Correct Answer: (B) Marconi
Explanation: Italian inventor and engineer Guglielmo Marconi developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal.
Q 10. It is believed that Johannes Gutenberg of …………..was the first to develop printing around 1439.
(A) Holland
(B) England
(C) Germany
(D) Poland
Correct Answer: (C) Germany
Explanation: In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying.