DATE:

10TH SSC MCQ - CH - MASS TIME: 19 Min

SEAT NO:

Note:-
1. All Questions are compulsory.
2. Numbers on the right indicate full marks.

Q.1 The use of EVM machines started from the decade of ………… . (1)
A) 1919 B) 1990
C) 1890 D) 1980
Ans : B
Q.2 The first English newspaper in India was started by ________ . (1)
A) James Augustus Hicky B) John Marshall
C) Allen Hume
Ans : A
Q.3 ‘_______’, a serial telecasted by Doordarshan, was based on ‘Discovery of India’, a book by (1)
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
A) Raja Shivchhatrapati B) Ramayana
C) Bharat Ek Khoj D) Mahabharata
Ans : C
Q.4 In 2017, 75 years were completed after the announcement of ‘________’ movement (1942). (1)
A) Simon Go Back B) Non-cooperation
C) Swadeshi D) Quit India
Ans : D
Q.5 A famous event of unauthentic information appearing in print was in ‘________’ a German (1)
weekly magazine.
A) Mein Kampf B) Vividh Bharati
C) Doordarshan D) Stern
Ans : D
Q.6 In India, colour television was introduced on ________. (1)
A) 15th August 1982 B) 1st May 1972
C) 23rd July 1927 D) 22nd April 1994
Ans : A
Q.7 ________ a private radio company was the first one to broadcast daily programmes. (1)
A) Indian Radio Shack B) Indian Broadcasting Company
C) Door Darshan D) Radio Mirchi
Ans : B
Q.8 ________ was the first monthly magazine started in Marathi by Balshastri Jambekar. (1)
A) Pragati B) India
C) Digdarshan D) Kesari
 Ans : C
Q.9 ________ started the newspapers Kesari and Maratha. (1)
A) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Bal Gangadhar B) Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Krishnarao
Tilak Bhalekar
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru
Ans : A
Q.10 The honour of printing an illustration in an Indian newspaper for the first time, goes to (1)
________.
A) Bengal Gazette B) Darpan
C) Prabhakar D) Dnyanoday
Ans : D
Q.11 The newspaper, named ‘ ________', was started by Bhau Mahajan with the aim of creating (1)
social awareness.
A) Bengal Gazette B) Darpan
C) Prabhakar D) Dnyanoday
Ans : C
Q.12 The birth date of ________ is observed as Journalists’ day in Maharashtra. (1)
A) Balshastri Jambhekar B) Bhau Mahajan
C) Krishnarao Bhalekar D) Mahatma Phule
Ans : A
Q.13 Balshastri Jambhekar was the editor of the newspaper, ________ which was started in 1832 in (1)
Mumbai.
A) Bengal Gazette B) Darpan
C) Prabhakar D) Dnyanoday
Ans : B
Q.14 The First English newspaper of India, called ‘Bengal Gazette’, was printed in ________. (1)
A) 29th January 1780 B) 19th January 1770
C) 29th March 1780 D) 29th January 1790
Ans : A
Q.15 In Rome, during Julius Caesar’s reign newspapers known as ________. (1)
A) Acta Diurna B) Octa news
C) Royal Decrees D) Daily Diurna
Ans : A
Q.16 Before the beginning of the common era (C.E.), there was a custom in ________ of placing (1)
inscriptions with royal decrees at public place.
A) India B) Italy
C) England D) Egypt
Ans : D
Q.17 ________ became the first mass medium of circulating information and knowledge among (1)
people.
A) Magazines B) Newspapers
C) Radio D) Television
Ans : B
Q.18 In the context of ‘Mass Media’, ‘mass’ means ________. (1)
A) medium of communication B) editorials
C) aggregation of people D) justice
Ans : C
Q.19 Television is an ________ medium. (1)
A) visual B) audio
C) audio-visual
Ans : C