First Sem - Introduction To Electronic media

  INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA

QUESTION BANK

1. The Interpretation process in Communication takes place in

a) Sender b) Message

c) Receiver d) Channel

Ans: c

2. The FM Station owned by Malayala Manorama group is ………………

a) Best FM b) Radio Mango

c) Club FM d) Radio Mirchi

Ans: b

3. The first private television channel in India is……………….. a) Asianet b) NDTV

c) Times New d) Surya

Ans: a

4. AFP stands for ………………….. a) Associated France Press b) Agence France Press

c) Agence Far Press d) None of these

Ans: b

5. Who represented India in Mc Bride Communication?

a) Sam Pitroda b) B.G. Varghese

c) A.G. Noorani d) G.S. Subrahmanya Aiyer

Ans: b

6. The Press Council of India was constituted as per the recommendation of …………

a) Registrar of News Paper India b) First Press Commission

c) Second Press Commission d) Mathew Commission Report

Ans: b

7. Advertorial is a ……………………………

a) Combination of Advertising and editorial

b) Advertisement is an editorial

c) Description is an advertisement

d) None of these

Ans: a

8. The two readership survey conducted in India are

a) NRS and IRS b) ABC and IRS

c) NRS and ABC d) IRS and CRS

Ans: a

9. Who said “Comment is free, Facts are sacred”

a) Walter Lipman b) Oscar wild

c) C.P. Scou d) G.B. Shaw

Ans: c

10. The first radio programme in India was broadcast by the ……………………. a) Radio Club of Calculta b) Radio Club of Bombay

c) PTI d) Doordarshan

Ans: b

11. Indian State Broad Casting Service (ISBS) was renamed all India Radio in the year ……………. a) 1936 b) 1935

c) 1948 d) 1950

Ans: a

12. At the time of Independence, AIR Network hand only ………………. Stations

a) Three b) Six

c) One d) Four

Ans: b

13. Expand FM?

a) Face Modulation b) Fidelity Magnificing

c) Frequency Modulation d) None of these

Ans: c

14. AIR’s youth broadcasting service is titled as ……………………….?

a) Youth Brigade b) Yuvavani

c) AIR Youth d) Yuva

Ans: b

15. The first controller of broad casting in India was

a) Lionel Fieldan b) B.G. Varghese

c) C.P. Scott d) Anshumon Gupta

Ans: a

16. Loksabha passed Prasar Bharati (…………………..) Bill in the year?

a) 1994 b) 1999

c) 2000 d) 1998

Ans: d

17. Door darshan Sail over to colour transmission on August is 1982 in connection

with?

a) Olympion b) Asian Games

c) Pun d) National Games

Ans: b

18. The Flagship channel of Doordarshan is?

a) DD Metro b) DD1

c) DD Loksabha d) DD Rajya Sabha

Ans: b

19. Expansion of NDTV is …………….. a) National Democratic Television b) Nai Dainik Television

c) New Delhi Television d) None of these

Ans: c

20. ……………………….. is the process of translation of the message into a

code suitable for transmission to the intended receivers. a) Decoding b)

Replication c) Transmission

d) Encoding

Ans: d

21. FM and …………are the two types of Radio transmission

a) FM b) AM

c) SM d) XM

Ans: b

22. The first Indian films to be nominated for Oscar Award is ……………. a) Salaam Bombay b) Lagan

c) Slum Dog Millionaire d) Mother India

Ans: d

23. The word ‘Tele’ means ………………

a) To see b) Far

c) Screen d) Moving

Ans: b

24. BBC stands for …………………. a) British Broad Casting Corporation b) Broadened Broad casting

Corporation c) Bit-by-Bit Broadcasting Corporation d) None of these

Ans: a

25. The Satelite Television Asia Region (STAR) is based in?

a) New Delhi b)

Banglore c) Tokyo

d) Honkong

Ans: d

26. Manoramaonline.com is an example of ………………….. a) News Site b) Social Site

c) Portal d) Interactive Site

Ans: c

27. The ‘water gate’ scandal was associated with which US President?

a) Bill Clinton b) Jimmy

Carter c) George W Bush d)

Richard Nixon

Ans: c

28. The Mac Bride Commission was constituted by?

a) BBC b) UNICEF

c) UNESCO d) AFP & AP

Ans: c

29. Fourth estate refers to ……………………..?

a) The internet b) The press

c) Whistle bloucers d) Private media

Ans: b

30. Close encounter is and interview programme in which Malayalam channel?

a) India Vision b) Reporter

c) Manorama News d) Amrita TV

Ans: b

31. The Central information and Broad casting minister of India is ……………

a) Tasian Ramesh b) Kapil

Sibal c) Ambika Soni d)

Sachin Pilot

Ans: c

32 . K.P. Kesava Menon is the Founder editor of ?

a) Puschimodayam b) Deepika

c) Mathrubhumi d) Kerala Kaumudhi

Ans: c

33. Byline Means …………………….. a) Text accompanying a Photograph b) Name of the author

c) Place & Date d) Edition of the News paper

Ans: b

34. The process of filtering a messages from source to receiver is……………

a) Filtering b) Refining

c) Framing d) Gate keeping

Ans: d

35. What is lead?

a) Headline of the story b) Opening paragraph of a

story c) Closing lines of a story c) Subhead lines of a

story

Ans: c

36. Tabloid refers to---?

a) News paper half the size of a broad sheet b) Periodicals

c) Table magazines d) House Journals

Ans: a

37. News reporting that sensationalise or over emplacing soft writing, which is

decided by some editors is means as………………………. a) Sensational Journalism b) Black Journalism

c) Criminal Journalism d) Yellow Journalism

Ans: d

38. When did AIR (All India Radio) come under the department of Information and

Broadcasting?

a) Oct 24, 1941 b) Sept 3, 1940

c) March 2, 1950 d) Dec 7, 1956

Ans:s: s: a

39. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) programme was the

brain

child of

a) Dr. S. Janardhanan b) V.K. Saraswat c) Vikram Sarabai c)

Sam Pitrocla

Ans: c

40. The Prasar Bharati Act came into force on ……. a) 1992 b)

1997 c) 1995 d)

1996

Ans: b

41. Which among the following is not a feature of Mass Media?

a) Transcient b) Universal Access

c) Narrow scope d) Gatekeeping

Ans: c

42. Indian Institute of Mass Communication (11 MC) is located

at a) Bombay b)

Bengalore

c) Kolkatta d) Newdelhi

Ans: d

43. What is “Reuters”?

a) The first journal in South East Asia b) A British based news

blong c) An economy based blog. d) Internet

technology chip

Ans: b

44. In DAB, what does the letter ‘A’ stand for?

a) Asterisk b) Audio

c) Antenna d) Automatic

Ans: b

45. Deliberate application of light to achieve some practical or Aesthetic

effect is

called ?

a) Lighting b)

Animation b) Optimisation d)

Lenshood

Ans: a

46 ‘Rotoscoping’ is associated with?

a) Animation b) Robotics

c) New media d) Television

Ans: a

47. ‘Face book’ is an example of

a) Search option b) Social

Network c) Online paper d)

Blog

Ans: b

48. The process of improving the visibility of a webpage/website in a

search engine is called?

a) Referral Marketing b) Affliation

c) Search Engine optimization d) Social Media Marketing

Ans: c

49. The scholar who coined the expression – ‘The Medium is the Message” is

well

renown for his concept of “Global Village”.

a) Albert Bandura b) Marshall Mcluhan

c) Leode Genero d) Wilbur Schram

Ans: b

50. Prannoy Roy is associated with which among the following media?

a) CNBC b) Sakshi T V

c) NDTV d) IBN Lok Mat

Ans: c

51. Who was recently appointed as the Editor-in-chief of outlook magazine replacing

Vinod Mehta?

a) Rajiv Shukla b) Pradeep

Bhakshi c) Krishna Kumar d) Rajiv

Ahir

Ans: c

52. ‘News and truth are not the same thing’- Who said these words?

a) Jerome.K.Taylor b) Henry Ikaka

c) Watler Luppman d) RavelMzoko

Ans: c

53. Wi-Fi Refers to

a) Width fixture b) Wireless fidelity

c) Wireless fixture d) Width figure

Ans: b

54. Reporter who covers a specific geographical or subject area is

a) Special Reporter b) Subject Reporter

c) Beat Reporter d) Correspondent. Ans: c

55. A Newspaper’s first edition of the day is known as

a) Bull dog b) Dummy

c) Hoax d) Newshole

Ans: a

56. What does the Latin Word “Communis” mean?

a) Commute b)

Communication c) Common

d) None of these

Ans: c

57. Expansion of CNN is?

a) Canadian News Network b) Communication News Network

c) Cable News Network d) Common News Network

Ans: c

58. A whistle blower means?

a) A professional Musician b) A crusader against

corruption c) Legal officer in a lower court d) Chief of a news

agency

Ans: b

59. The program Devil’s Advocate in CNNIBN is hosted by?

a) Karan Thapar b) Prannoy Roy

c) Arnab Goswami d) Rajdeep Sardesai

Ans: a

60. Right to Information ACT (RTI) applies to all the states and UT’s of India

except a) Kerala b) Jammu & Kashmir

c) Goa d) Nagaland

Ans: b

61. Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio was invented by?

a) Edwin. H. Armstrong b) Jacques Diouf

c) Andy Zeollick d) Mckarthy wolf

Ans: a

62. The term ‘ Mockumentary’ is the portmanteau of?

a) Mockum + Documentary b) Mock + Documentary

c) Motion + Documentary d) Mog + Documentary

Ans: b

63. VJ stands for Video Jockey, what does DJ stands for?

a) Disc Jockey b) Drive Jockey

c) Dude Jockey d) Diffo Jockey

Ans: a

64. The expansion of ENG is?

a) Engineered News Generation b) Electronic News Gathering

c) Electronic Nano Gathering d) Engineered News Gadget

Ans: b

65. Headline across top of a page over the name plate is called?

a) Scoop b) Skyline

c) Newshole d) Lead

Ans: b

66. Request not to publish Information supplied in advance until specified

time

circumstance is

a) Feed back b) Advocacy

c) Freelance d) Embaego

Ans: d

67. The process of filtering messages from source to receive is called?

a) Hand out b) Degeneration

c) Gate keeping d) Kinesics

Ans: c

68. Olfactory communication refers to?

a) Communication by Smell b) Communication by Sound

c) Communication by Fingers d) Communication by Eyebrows

Ans: a

69. Opening paragraph of a news story is called?

a) Body b) Lead

c) Scoop d) Skyline

Ans: b

70. ‘The Time of India’ newspaper is owned by

a) Time Group b) Arnab Goswami

c) S.K. Jain Group d) UB Group 

Ans: c

71. The line of a story that names the author is called

a) By line b) Name plate

c) Sky line d) Bull dog 

Ans: a

72. Which among the following is component of Communication process?

a) Message b) Channel

c) Decoding d) Analysis 

Ans: d

73. The Consequence of Communication is called?

a) Effect b) Message

c) Source d) Context 

Ans: a

74. Which among the following is famed for Investigative journalism?

a) BBC World b) Tehelka

c) Vidura d) IBN Lokmat 

Ans: b

75. Doordarshan was delinked from All India Radio, in the year?

a) 1976 b) 1970

c) 1983 d) 1980 

Ans: a

77. The fundamental Right of freedom of expression is guaranteed in constitution by

a) Article 19 b) Article 120

c) Article 91 d) Article 358 

Ans: a

78. The Vehicle or Medium through which signals are sent are called

a) Culttu b) Channel

c) Follow d) Sowce 

Ans: d

79. Who among the following is not a cartoonist

a) Vinod Mehta b) R. Shankar

c) B.M. Gafoor d) Toms 

Ans: a

80. The teem ‘Broad band’ is connected with

a) Radio b) Internet

c) Animation d Mobile              

Ans: b