MCQ Bank
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), was split into how many local companies, that enabled it to enter into new types of business?
- A) 22
- B) 23
- C) 24
- D) 25
Who supports the idea of free flow of information in trade?
- A) ITU
- B) UNESCO
- C) WTO
- D) NAFTA
By 1999, how many countries privatised their
telecommunications networks, partly as a result of the WTO agreement?
- A) 86
- B) 89
- C) 88
- D) 87
The 1997 annual sales of General Motors surpassed the GDP of ________.
- A) Thailand
- B) Hong Kong
- C) Ireland
- D) Finland
When did AsiaSat 1 launched in Asia?
- A) 1990
- B) 1998
- C) 1997
- D) 1988
________ breeds the need of communication which is imperative for coordination.
- A) Global Economy
- B) Sharing
- C) Partnership
- D) Interdependency
Who among the following owns Paramount Pictures?
- A) Rupert Murdock
- B) Summer Redstone
- C) Robert Iger
- D) Barry M. Meyer
What is the name of the world first satellite?
- A) Jupitor
- B) Atom
- C) Quarkz
- D) Sputnik
In 1990s, how many media organisation had concentration of media ownership?
- A) 23
- B) 22
- C) 24
- D) 21
Which of the following concept can be called as a mix and match from different sources, old and new, local and global - music, popular culture, restaurants, home decoration?
- A) Commercialization
- B) Internationalisation
- C) Hybridization
- D) Localization
Which of the following news entity is the second larger media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch?
- A) Combined News Network
- B) Australian Broadcasting
- C) American Television
- D) News Corporation
In which phase the new hybrid visual language of moving images dominated global visual culture?
- A) 1960s
- B) 1980s
- C) 1970s
- D) 1990s
BBC launched _______ in 1998 and it was a joint venture with Discovery.
- A) HBO
- B) BBC Arabic
- C) Animal Planet
- D) Star World
Which of the following is the biggest telecom company?American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
- A) American Telephone and Telecin (AT&T)
- B) American Telephone and Telephone (AT&T)
- C) American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
- D) American Telephone and Telethon (AT&T)
Who claims to be the most comprehensive vertically-integrated satellite firm in the world?
- A) All of the give above
- B) Loral
- C) Lockheed Martin
- D) Hughes Space and Communications
The twenty-first century opened with the world's biggest merger between America Online (AOL) with __________.
- A) Benetton
- B) Time Warner
- C) Marks & Spencer’s
- D) Walt Disney
What percentage of the market was captured by the British game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”?
- A) 71
- B) 73
- C) 74
- D) 72
Time, Harry Porter, Lords of the Rings and People magazines are also the subsidiaries of:
- A) Disney and Alta
- B) Walnut and Disney
- C) AT & T
- D) Time and Warner
When did World Trade Organization (WTO) established?
- A) January 1995
- B) January 1997
- C) January 1947
- D) January 1996
Which of the following company is a leader in mobile systems?
- A) Sony
- B) Ericsson
- C) Nokia
- D) OPPO