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Journalism and Mass Communication Objective Questions (DMCQ)
Q 1. Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4 March โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ
(A) 1764
(B) 1784
(C) 1789
(D) 1794
Correct Answer: (B) 1784
Explanation: Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4 March 1784. It was not a government publication. The Calcutta Gazette owed its origin and initial management to Francis Gladwin, an orientalist and an officer of the east India company.
Q 2. Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4 March 1784. It was not a government publication and owed its origin and initial management toโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ, an oriental scholar and an officer of the east India Company.
(A) John Edward Taylor
(B) Francis Gladwin
(C) John Anderton
(D) William Bolts
Correct Answer: (B) Francis Gladwin
Explanation: Calcutta Gazette a newspaper, circulating government advertisements, was first published on 4 March 1784. It was not a government publication. The Calcutta Gazette owed its origin and initial management to Francis Gladwin, an orientalist and an officer of the east India company.
Q 3. Who was the owner of the Calcutta Morning Post?
(A) Will Smith
(B) Mr. Heatly
(C) J.Z.Kiermander
(D) Peter Read
Correct Answer: (B) Mr. Heatly
Explanation: Calcutta Gazette was founded by Francis Gladwin, an officer in the British East India Trading company and an orientalist. Its first issue was published on 4 March 1784.
Private advertisers also left the newspaper and advertising revenue declined. Employees at the newspaper went on strike. In June 1818 the Calcutta Gazette was sold to the owner of the Calcutta Morning Post, Heatly. On 29 September 1818 Heatly stopped publication of the Calcutta Gazette in favor of a new newspaper founded by James Silk Buckingham called the Calcutta Journal.
Q 4. The Calcutta Journal, a new newspaper was launched by โฆโฆโฆโฆ
(A) James Silk Buckingham
(B) B. Messinck
(C) E. Jerome McCarthy
(D) Arthur Muir
Correct Answer: (A) James Silk Buckingham
Explanation: Calcutta Gazette was founded by Francis Gladwin, an officer in the British East India Trading company and an orientalist. Its first issue was published on **4 March 1784. **
Private advertisers also left the newspaper and advertising revenue declined. Employees at the newspaper went on strike. In June 1818 the Calcutta Gazette was sold to the owner of the Calcutta Morning Post, Heatly. On 29 September 1818 Heatly stopped publication of the Calcutta Gazette in favor of a new newspaper founded by James Silk Buckingham called the Calcutta Journal.
Q 5. โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ, a teacher and reformist, started the first Bangla weekly Bengal Gazette in early 1818.
(A) Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya
(B) Herbert Harrington
(C) Edmond Morris
(D) Pierre Brissot
Correct Answer: (A) Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya
Explanation: Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya, a teacher and reformist, started the first Bangla weekly Bengal Gazette in early 1818 assisted by Raja Rammohun Roy. Thereafter, in April 1818, the Baptist missionaries published the Bangla monthly Dig-darshan from Serampore.
Q 6. โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆwere the first European nations who brought a printing press to India and the first book published in India was by the Jesuits of Goa in 1557.
(A) The French
(B) The Portuguese
(C) The English
(D) The Dutch
Correct Answer: (B) The Portuguese
Explanation: The Portuguese were the first Europeans, who brought a printing press to India and the first book published in India was by the Jesuit of Goa in 1557 AD.
Q 7. In 1684 the English East India Company set up a printing press in โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ
(A) Gujarat
(B) Bombay
(C) Calcutta
(D) Madras
Correct Answer: (B) Bombay
Explanation: Printing press to India for the first time was brought by the Portuguese and the first book was published in India by the Jesuits of Goa in 1557. English East India Company was second to set up a printing press in India as they established a press in the year 1684, in Bombay.
Q 8. When the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
(A) 1868
(B) 1878
(C) 1888
(D) 1898
Correct Answer: (B) 1878
Explanation: In British India, the Vernacular Press Act (1878) was enacted to curtail the freedom of the Indian press and prevent the expression of criticism toward British policies.
Q 9. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act?
(A) Lord Wellesley
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Hastings
(D) Lord William Bentinck
Correct Answer: (B) Lord Lytton
Explanation: Lord Lytton introduced the Vernacular Press Actin 1878. The Vernacular Press Act restricted vernacular newspapers to publish any material that might excite feelings of dissatisfaction against the British government.
Q 10. Which Act came to be nicknamed as the Gagging Act?
(A) The Vernacular Press Act
(B) Act of 1858
(C) Act of 1909
(D) Act of 1919
Correct Answer: (A) The Vernacular Press Act
Explanation: Vernacular Press Act of 1878 is also known as โThe Gagging Actโ. It was enacted during the time of Lord Lytton. It was meant only for vernacular/ native language newspaper not for English ones.