MCQ Bank
The advertisements that appear brief and usually on one column on newspapers are called:
- A) Display ads
- B) Exclusive ads
- C) Random ads
- D) Classified ads
Which of the given option best defines the common mode of spreading information in primitive societies?
- A) Wall chalking
- B) Distribution of hand written bills
- C) Beat of Drums
- D) All of the given options
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus wrote De revolutionibus; a work that placed:
- A) Moon revolving around the Earth
- B) Planets revolving around Earth
- C) Sun at the center and the planets revolving around it
- D) Earth revolving around Sun
Which of the following type of print ads are cheaper?
- A) Two colored ads
- B) Multicolor ads
- C) Classified ads
- D) Display ads
All of the given options are considered as the functions of Business Department of a newspaper EXCEPT:
- A) To place the advertisements correctly
- B) To ensure maximum circulation
- C) To arrange sufficient advertisements
- D) To generate revenue for the publication
Which newspaper department normally operates only in night?
- A) Press
- B) Accounts
- C) Editorial
- D) None of the given options
Advertisements which appear brief and usually in one column are called:
- A) Google ads
- B) Display ads
- C) Classified ads
- D) Floating ads
Which of the following area was benefited the most from the extraordinary growth of mass media from seventeenth century?
- A) Advertising
- B) Public Relations
- C) All of the given options
- D) Broadcasting
Photography was invented by:
- A) German scientists
- B) Americans
- C) Chinese
- D) Frenchmen
Which of the following is NOT the function of radio in war times?
- A) Armies communicate with each other
- B) To create war hype among masses
- C) It keeps the nation integrated
- D) To boost up the morale of army
Black propaganda is:
- A) Correctly attributed
- B) Un-attributed
- C) Falsely attributed
- D) None of the given options
Whose films were released at the Novelty Theatre on 18 July 1896 in Bombay?
- A) Warner Brothers
- B) Bimol Roy
- C) Lumière Brothers
- D) Steven Speelburg
When did the studios began to produce material especially for television, including commercials?
- A) 1956
- B) 1930
- C) 1856
- D) 1949
Which of the following statement is true about propaganda?
- A) It is always negative
- B) It is neutral
- C) It can be both positive & negative
- D) It is always positive
Raja Harishchandra refers to which of the following?
- A) A scientist
- B) Film director
- C) Politician
- D) First film of subcontinent
Pakistan’s first ever produced Punjabi film Pheray was a re-make of which of the following films?
- A) Gaon ki Gori
- B) Teri Yaad
- C) Heer Ranjha
- D) Anmol Gharri
If a movie has a viewer restriction and is considered suitable only for adults, then what would be the rating of the movie?
- A) M
- B) G
- C) X
- D) PG
When was Marconi awarded with the Noble prize for his great invention?
- A) 1909
- B) 1809
- C) 1919
- D) 1990
It was the __________which made the radio popular on first instance.
- A) Advertising
- B) Information
- C) Entertainment
- D) Education
If there is a program on symptoms and preventions of Hepatitis on radio, then this program is a source of:
- A) Advertising
- B) Propaganda
- C) Education
- D) Entertainment