142. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Minto
Ans: (A)
143. The first newspaper in India was
(A) Bengal Gazette
(B) Hindustan Times
(C) Pioneer
(D) Sambad Kaumadi
Ans: (A)
144. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
(A) Lord Lytton
(B) Lord Ripon
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Hastings
Ans: (A)
145. Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Dufferin
Ans: (A)
146. Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship?
(A) Wellesley
(B) Hastings
(C) John Adams
(D) Dalhousie
Ans: (A)
147. Who in America started to issue the newspaper ‘Free India’?
(A) Ram Nath Puri
(B) G.D. Kumar
(C) Lala Hardayal
(D) Tarak Nath Das
Ans: (D)
148. Who was the first Indian to go to jail in the performance of his duty as a journalist?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Motilal Ghosh
(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee
Ans: (A)
149. The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udatt Martand’ (30th May 1826) was published from
(A) Kolkata
(B) Patna
(C) Allahabad
(D) Lucknow
Ans: (A)
150. Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was published by
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(D) Maulana Shibli Nomani
Ans: (B)
151. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?
(A) Urdu
(B) Hindi
(C) English
(D) Marathi
Ans: (A)
152. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?
(A) Bombay
(B) Calcutta
(C) Madras
(D) Pondicherry
Ans: (B)
153. Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?
(A) Girish Chandra Ghosh
(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(C) S.N. Banerjee
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose
Ans: (D)
154. The journal ‘Ghadar’ of the Ghadar Party was a
(A) Monthly Journal
(B) Fortnightly Journal
(C) Weekly Journal
(D) Daily Journal
Ans: (C)
155. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized the Congress for various reasons?
(A) Bangawasi
(B) Kaal
(C) Kesari
(D) All of these
Ans: (D)
156. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
(A) Gadar
(B) Kesari
(C) Free Hindustan
(D) Swadesh Mitra
Ans: (B)
157. Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?
(A) New India
(B) Leader
(C) Young India
(D) Free Press Journal
Ans: (B)
158. Who among the following started the newspaper’s ‘Som Prakash’?
(A) Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Surendranath Banerjee
Ans: (B)
159. The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion was
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Albert West
(C) Mahadev Desai
(D) Mansukhal Nazar
Ans: (D)
160. Which one of the following was not the language in which the ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?
(A) English
(B) Gujarati
(C) Tamil
(D) Urdu
Ans: (D)
161. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?
(A) Sandhya
(B) Yugantar
(C) Ghadar
(D) Young India
Ans: (D)
162. The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by
(A) The Home Rule Party
(B) The Extremist Party
(C) Ghadar Party
(D) Swaraj Party
Ans: (A)
163. The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was
(A) Hem Chandrakar
(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(C) Dinbandhu Mitra
(D) Digambar Biswas
Ans: (B)
164. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was
(A) Hindu Patriot
(B) The Hindu
(C) Young India
(D) Native Opinion
Ans: (A)
165. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?
(A) Indian Nation
(B) Punjab Kesari
(C) Prabhakar
(D) Dawn
Ans: (A)
166. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?
(A) Arbind Ghosh
(B) M.G. Ranade
(C) S.C. Bose
(D) Lokmanya Tilak
Ans: (A)
167. The English Newspaper ‘Independent’ was associated to
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) C.R. Das
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(D) Motilal Nehru
Ans: (D)
168. The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by
(A) C.V. Raman Pillai
(B) C.N. Mudaliar
(C) K. Ram Krishna Pillai
(D) C.R. Reddy
Ans: (C)
169. ‘Harijan’ was started by
(A) Tilak
(B) Gokhale
(C) Gandhiji
(D) Naoroji
Ans: (C)
170. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bizaliya movement the subject of discussion in India?
(A) Kesai
(B) Pratap
(C) Maratha
(D) Majusha
Ans: (B)
171. The Marathi fortnightly ‘Bahiskrit Bharat’ was started by
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) V.D. Savarkar
(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Ans: (B)
172. The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?
(A) Bombay (now Mumbai)
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) Poona (now Pune)
(D) Nasik
Ans: (C)
173. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
(A) Al-Hilal
(B) Comrade
(C) The Indian Sociologist
(D) Zamindar
Ans: (A)
174. …… was related to Bahiskrit Bharat.
(A) Atmaram Pandurang
(B) Jyotiba Phule
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) B.R. Ambedkar
Ans: (D)
175. Given below are the names of freedom fighters and the newspapers started by them among these which combination is incorrect?
(A) Maulana Azad – Al-Hilal
(B) Lokmanya Tilak – Kesari
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru – National Herald
(D) Mahatma Gandhi – The Pioneer
Ans: (D)
176. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?
(A) Vande Mataram
(B) People
(C) Tribune
(D) Vir Arjun
Ans: (A)
177. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Navjiwan – M.K. Gandhi
(B) Swarajya – T. Prakasham
(C) Prabhat – N.C. Kelkar
(D) Qaumi Awaz – Abul Kalam Azad
Ans: (D)
178. Who among the following had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(C) Shaukat Ali
(D) Khaliquzzaman
Ans: (B)
179. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar – Independent
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Kesari
(C) Annie Besant – New India
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji – Rast Goftar
Ans: (A)
180. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi – Mook Nayak
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Young India
(C) Annie Besant – Commonweal
(D) B.R. Ambedkar – Kesari
Ans: (C)
181. To whom Commonweal is related?
(A) B.G. Tilak
(B) Annie Besant
(C) G.K. Gokhale
(D) None of the above
Ans: (B)
182. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(A) Annie Besant – Young India
(B) Mahatma Gandhi – New India
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Kesari
(D) Surendranath Banerjee – Maratha
Ans: (C)
183. Which of the following newspapers advocated revolutionary terrorism during the period of Indian freedom struggle?
1. Sandhya 2. Yugantar 3. Kaal
Choose the correct answer from the code given below.
Code
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Ans: (D)
184. Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper ‘Vande Mataram’?
(A) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(B) Bipin Chandra Pal
(C) V.D. Savarkar
(D) G.D. Savarkar
Ans: (B)
185. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below.
List-I (Newspaper)
(a) Bharat Mitra
(b) Rastra Mitra
(c) Praja Mitra
(d) Nayak
List-II (Language)
1. Bengali
2. Gujarati
3. Hindi
4. Marathi
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: (C)
186. Which of the following were the two Newspapers published by Annie Besant?
1. Commonweal 2. New India
3. New Hindu 4. The Aryans
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Code
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 4
(D) 3 and 4
Ans: (A)
187. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Hindu
(b) Sudharak
(c) Voice of India
(d) Bengali
List-II (Editors)
1. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
3. G. Subramaniya Iyer
4. Surendra Nath Banerjee
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 1 4
Ans: (D)
188. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists. List-I (Newspaper)
(a) Dainik Aaj
(b) The Leader
(c) The National
(d) The Pioneer
List-II (Founder)
1. George Allen
2. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. Madan Mohan Malviya
4. Shiv Prasad Gupta
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 1 3 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 4 2 3
Ans: (A)
189. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists. List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Leader
(b) Bombay Chronicle
(c) Independent
(d) Justice
List-II (Launcher/Publisher)
1. Madan Mohan Malviya
2. Firoz Shah Mehta
3. T.M. Nair
4. Motilal Nehru
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 4 1 2 3
Ans: (A)
190. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Bombay
(b) Commonweal
(c) Leader
(d) Search Light
List-II (Person who started it)
1. Annie Besant
2. Madan Mohan Malviya
3. Pheroz Shah Mehta
4. Sachindanand Singh
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 3 1 2 4
(D) 4 2 1 3
Ans: (C)
191. Match the following and select the correct answer from the code given below.
List-I
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(b) Arvind Ghosh
(c) Brahmobandhab Upadhyay
(d) Mohammad Ali
List-II
1. New India
2. Comrade
3. Vande Mataram
4. Sandhya
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 3 2 4
Ans: (A)
192. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I
(a) Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Feroz Shah Mehta
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Mahatma Gandhi List-II
1. Bombay Chronicle
2. Al-Hilal
3. Young India
4. New India
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 3 4
(D) 3 2 1 4
Ans: (A)
193. Match the list of the Editors with that of the Papers/Magazines, they were editing.
List ‘A’ (Editors)
(a) S.A. Dange
(b) Muzaffar Ahmad
(c) Ghulam Husain
(d) M. Singarvelu
List ‘B’ (Papers/Magazine)
1. Navayug
2. Inqilab
3. Labour Kisan Gazette
4. The Socialist
Code
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 3 4 2 1
Ans: (B)
