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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 101. |
………………..joined the paper Samadarshi in 1923 as editor. |
| A. | a.balakrishna pillai |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | barrister a.k.pillai |
| D. | t.k. madhavan |
| Answer» A. a.balakrishna pillai | |
| 102. |
It is said that the notorious Travancore Newspaper Regulations of ……………….. were an offshoot of Balakrishna Pillai's incisive criticisms. |
| A. | 1906 |
| B. | 1909 |
| C. | 1916 |
| D. | 1926 |
| Answer» D. 1926 | |
| 103. |
The All Kerala Political Conference held at …………….in April 1921 marked the beginning of the move for a united Kerala which became a reality in terms of law thirty-five years later. |
| A. | kollam |
| B. | ottapalam |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | thrissoor |
| Answer» B. ottapalam | |
| 104. |
The newspaper regulation of 1926 was promulgated by………………. |
| A. | dewan watts |
| B. | barrister a.k.pillai |
| C. | k.ayyappan |
| D. | k.p.kesava menon |
| Answer» A. dewan watts | |
| 105. |
A.Balakrishana Pillai, who had earlier been eased out of editorial responsibility of the Samadarshi, had in the meanwhile launched a new periodical entitled…………………. |
| A. | kerala kesari |
| B. | yuvabharatham |
| C. | malayala rajyam |
| D. | prabhodakan |
| Answer» D. prabhodakan | |
| 106. |
…………………now started the Kesari, later to become famous in the annuals of Malayalam journalism. |
| A. | k.g.sankar |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | k.ayyappan |
| D. | balakrishna pillai |
| Answer» D. balakrishna pillai | |
| 107. |
Swarad editor …………….led the deputation to the Dewan who, it must be conceded, gave them a patient hearing. |
| A. | a.k.pillai |
| B. | k.g.sankar |
| C. | k.ayyappan |
| D. | c.krishnan |
| Answer» A. a.k.pillai | |
| 108. |
June 26, ………………., the day the new newspaper regulations took effect, was observed as a day of mourning by the people of Thiruvananthapuram. |
| A. | 1906 |
| B. | 1916 |
| C. | 1919 |
| D. | 1926 |
| Answer» D. 1926 | |
| 109. |
The …………………made a triumphant entry into Malayalam journalism in 1929, featuring in its columns API and Reuter despatches and news pictures fed by foreign photo agencies. |
| A. | malayalarajyam |
| B. | swarad |
| C. | prabhodakan |
| D. | yuvabharatham |
| Answer» A. malayalarajyam | |
| 110. |
Malayalarajyam was published from……………... |
| A. | thrissoor |
| B. | cochin |
| C. | travancore |
| D. | kollam |
| Answer» D. kollam | |
| 111. |
It was the course of the non-cooperation and Khilafat movements that Kerala witnessed what was probably the most tragic episode in its freedom struggle, namely the Mappila Rebellion or, has been increasingly called, the Malabar Rebellion of………….. |
| A. | 1821 |
| B. | 1892 |
| C. | 1921 |
| D. | 1929 |
| Answer» C. 1921 | |
| 112. |
This was best illustrated by the starting of the nationalist newspaper, the Mathrubhoomi, from Kozhikode in……………. |
| A. | 1903 |
| B. | 1913 |
| C. | 1923 |
| D. | 1928 |
| Answer» C. 1923 | |
| 113. |
Mathrubhoomi started issuing on March 18, 1923, thrice a week, with ………………………..as its editor. |
| A. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| B. | k.p.kesava menon |
| C. | t.k.madhavan |
| D. | sanjayan |
| Answer» B. k.p.kesava menon | |
| 114. |
The moving spirit of the Vaikom satyagraha was Shri……………….., himself a redoubtable journalist. |
| A. | t.k.madhavan |
| B. | k.p.kesava menon |
| C. | dr. sebastian paul |
| D. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| Answer» A. t.k.madhavan | |
| 115. |
At the peak of the civil disobedience movement, in April 1930, the …………………started issuing as a daily. |
| A. | kerala kesari |
| B. | yuvabharatham |
| C. | malayala rajyam |
| D. | mathrubhoomi |
| Answer» D. mathrubhoomi | |
| 116. |
The Dewan of Travancore, Sir………………., refused entry to the paper Mathrubhoomi in the State. |
| A. | c.p.ramaswamy iyer |
| B. | k.g.sankar |
| C. | a.k.pillai |
| D. | p.rajagopalachari |
| Answer» A. c.p.ramaswamy iyer | |
| 117. |
The Prabhatham started publication from ……………….with E.M.S. Namboodiripad as its editor. |
| A. | shoranur |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | thrissoor |
| Answer» A. shoranur | |
| 118. |
The Deenabandu commenced publication as a weekly in 1941 from…………………... |
| A. | anchuthengu |
| B. | travancore |
| C. | thangassery |
| D. | thrissur |
| Answer» D. thrissur | |
| 119. |
The………………… weekly was edited by V.R.Krishnan Ezhuthachan. |
| A. | deenabandu |
| B. | yuvabharatham |
| C. | malayala rajyam |
| D. | kerala kesari |
| Answer» A. deenabandu | |
| 120. |
The …………………was trial-blazer in the sense that it was one of the first periodicals published from Cochin State which supported the national movement. |
| A. | kerala kesari |
| B. | yuvabharatham |
| C. | malayala rajyam |
| D. | deenabandu |
| Answer» D. deenabandu | |
| 121. |
After a splendid innings spread over 21 years the Deenabandu finally succumbed to financial difficulties and ceased publication in……………... |
| A. | 1902 |
| B. | 1912 |
| C. | 1962 |
| D. | 1967 |
| Answer» C. 1962 | |
| 122. |
The Lokamanyan started publication from……………….. |
| A. | thrissur |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | calicut |
| Answer» A. thrissur | |
| 123. |
The Swarad started publication from………………... |
| A. | kollam |
| B. | cochin |
| C. | thrissoor |
| D. | palghat |
| Answer» A. kollam | |
| 124. |
The Yuvabharatham started publication from………….. |
| A. | thrissoor |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | palakkad |
| D. | calicut |
| Answer» C. palakkad | |
| 125. |
The Kerala Kesari started publication from…………….. |
| A. | thrissur |
| B. | palakkad |
| C. | irinjalakkuda |
| D. | thalassery |
| Answer» A. thrissur | |
| 126. |
The Chandrika, started out in 1934 from ………….as a weekly. |
| A. | palakkad |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | thalassery |
| Answer» D. thalassery | |
| 127. |
The Chandrika of the Muslim League blossomed into a daily in …………..and was shifted to Kozhikode. |
| A. | 1909 |
| B. | 1919 |
| C. | 1939 |
| D. | 1946 |
| Answer» C. 1939 | |
| 128. |
The Desabhimani, currently the organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), began publication from Kozhikode in ………… as a weekly. |
| A. | 1912 |
| B. | 1923 |
| C. | 1938 |
| D. | 1942 |
| Answer» D. 1942 | |
| 129. |
Aurobindo was the editor of |
| A. | harijan |
| B. | pionee |
| C. | vande mataram |
| D. | chronicle |
| Answer» C. vande mataram | |
| 130. |
The government of Madras banned the paper Desabhimani in………... |
| A. | 1908 |
| B. | 1917 |
| C. | 1928 |
| D. | 1948 |
| Answer» D. 1948 | |
| 131. |
In the Travancore area the Communist Party started its own publication, the…………………. |
| A. | janayugam |
| B. | kaumudi |
| C. | kerala kesari |
| D. | bharati |
| Answer» A. janayugam | |
| 132. |
The Navajeevan, was launched into existence from Thrissur, with …………………as its editor. |
| A. | joseph mundassery |
| B. | dr. sebastian paul |
| C. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| D. | k.g.sankar |
| Answer» A. joseph mundassery | |
| 133. |
The Navajeevan, was launched into existence from………….., with Joseph Mundassery as its editor. |
| A. | eranakulam |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | kozhikode |
| D. | thrissur |
| Answer» D. thrissur | |
| 134. |
In the late sixties the paper Navajeevan was shifted to……………., but did not survive for long. |
| A. | thrissur |
| B. | travancore |
| C. | kozhikode |
| D. | tellicherry |
| Answer» C. kozhikode | |
| 135. |
The Arch Bishop of Ernakulam brought out the Malabar Mail from Ernakulam in……………….. |
| A. | 1906 |
| B. | 1916 |
| C. | 1926 |
| D. | 1936 |
| Answer» D. 1936 | |
| 136. |
The Powraprabha issuing from ……………..in the late thirties wielded considerable influence in the Travancore area. |
| A. | travancore |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | kottayam |
| Answer» D. kottayam | |
| 137. |
The Powraprabha’s publishing base was successively shifted first to Mavelikkara and then to Kottayam, with ………………as its editor. |
| A. | c.m.stephen |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | k.m. chacko |
| D. | k.k.kuruvilla |
| Answer» A. c.m.stephen | |
| 138. |
The Powradhwani was …………….-based paper. |
| A. | calicut |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | travancore |
| D. | kottayam |
| Answer» D. kottayam | |
| 139. |
The Powradhwani Started in 1939 by…………………. |
| A. | k.m. chacko |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | a.k.pillai |
| D. | c.krishnan |
| Answer» A. k.m. chacko | |
| 140. |
Oldest English daily of India is |
| A. | statesma |
| B. | the times of indi |
| C. | the tribune |
| D. | the hindu |
| Answer» B. the times of indi | |
| 141. |
The Powradhwani stopped publication in…………... |
| A. | 1905 |
| B. | 1915 |
| C. | 1925 |
| D. | 1955 |
| Answer» D. 1955 | |
| 142. |
The Keralabhushanam was launched from Kottayam in 1944 by……………………... |
| A. | k.k.kuruvilla |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | k.krishnan |
| D. | k.a.damodara menon |
| Answer» A. k.k.kuruvilla | |
| 143. |
The Prabhatam started out as a weekly from …………….in 1944, but was soon converted into a daily. |
| A. | kollam |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | thrissoor |
| Answer» A. kollam | |
| 144. |
The birth of the Express was from…………... |
| A. | travancore |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | cochin |
| D. | thrissur |
| Answer» D. thrissur | |
| 145. |
The paper Express was edited by ……………and with its pronounced nationalist and socialist views gained extensive circulation in Cochin State. |
| A. | k.krishnan |
| B. | pettayil raman pillai asan |
| C. | k.a.damodara menon |
| D. | b.c.varghese |
| Answer» A. k.krishnan | |
| 146. |
The National War Front co-sponsored a daily entitled Powrasakhi from ……………at the height of the Second World War in 1944. |
| A. | cochin |
| B. | irinjalakkuda |
| C. | kozhikode |
| D. | travancore |
| Answer» C. kozhikode | |
| 147. |
After the war ‘……………………’ came out as a regular newspaper, with B.C.Varghese, Varghese Kalathil and K.A.Damodara Menon occupying the editorial chair on successive occasions. |
| A. | powrasakhi |
| B. | the kaumudi |
| C. | the kerala kesari |
| D. | the bharati |
| Answer» A. powrasakhi | |
| 148. |
Powrasakhi daily bowed out in……………... |
| A. | 1916 |
| B. | 1926 |
| C. | 1956 |
| D. | 1966 |
| Answer» C. 1956 | |
| 149. |
The Namboodiri Yogakshema Sabha sponsored two notable publications, the Yogakshemam and the ……………..Namboodiri. |
| A. | krishnan |
| B. | raman |
| C. | vishnu |
| D. | unni |
| Answer» D. unni | |
| 150. |
V.T.Bhatadiripad, among others, wielded his powerful pen to break the isolation and rid ……………….community of conservatism. |
| A. | nair |
| B. | ezhava |
| C. | muslim |
| D. | namboodiri |
| Answer» D. namboodiri | |
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