A 18717 120 MINUTES 1. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is used in: A) Network Security B) Browser Security C) Mobile Security D) Email Security 2. Who organizes the Mumbai International Film Festival? A) National Film Development Corporation Limited B) National Film Archives of India C) Directorate of Film Festival D) Films Division, Ministry of I & B 3. Author of “Mass Media and National Development”? A) Daniel Lerner B) John Adams C) Wilbur Schramm D) Richard Nixon 4. Which of the following statements is false? A) J. C. Daniel of Agatheswaram produced the first silent film with Malayalam titles from erstwhile Travancore B) Daniel was a dentist by profession C) Daniel’s film was confiscated by the court due to a copyright issue D) The Life Time Achievement Award in Malayalam Cinema is instituted in the name of Daniel 5. Malayalam film based on the life of J C Daniel was directed by --------. A) Adoor Gopalakrishnan B) Ranjith C) Kamal D) Lenin Rajendran 6. A quick succession of headline images shown in the beginning of a newscast A) Headline fast track B) Headline montage C) Quick heads D) None of the above 7. PoV is --------- A) Point of view B) Panning of visuals C) Point of visuals D) Painting over visuals 8. The arrangement of stories in a bulletin is known as --------. A) Story listing B) Story rundown C) Story bunching D) Story indexing 9. The Political satire program of Mathrubumi channel: A) Thiruva Ethirva B) Natakame Ulakam C) Chithram Vichithram D) Vakradrishti 10. Who founded the newspaper ‘National Herald’? A) Vijayalekshmi Pandit B) Motilal Nehru C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Jawaharlal Nehru 11. The first American newspaper A) Avisa Relation Ode Zeitung B) Daily Courant C) Boston news letter D) Public Occurrences 12. Who divided the media into “hot” and “cool”? A) Wilbur Schramm B) Val Gielgud C) Marshall McLuhan D) Raymond Williams 13. Which movie won the Palme d’Or at the 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival 2018? A) Girl B) Shoplifters C) Cold War D) Neruda 14. Brand Ambassador of GST A) Aamir Khan B) Anupam Kher C) Amitabh Bachchan D) Sharmila Tagore 15. The director of the film India’s Daughter: A) Oliver Stone B) Leslee Udwin C) James Fred D) John Adams 16. Chief Information Commissioner of India A) Naveen Chawla B) Radhakrishna Mathur C) Habeeb Rahman D) Deepan Sandhu 17. The winner of Kerala State Film Award for the best director in 2018: A) Lal Jose B) Ashiq Abu C) Lijo Jose Pellissery D) Dileesh Pothan 18. The director of FTII Pune: A) Bhupendra Kainthola B) Shatrugnan Sinha C) Anupam Kher D) None of these 19. Who launched the first newspaper in Malayalam? A) James Silk Buckingham B) Dr. Herman Gundert C) James Augustus Hicky D) Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai 20. Which organisation publishes Kerala Calling? A) Kerala Press Academy B) Department of Information and Public Relations, Govt. of Kerala C) Press Information Bureau D) Kerala Kala Mandalam 21. Normative Theories are based on the relationship between A) Audience and the Society B) Press and the Audience C) Government and the Audience D) Press and the Government 22. If you are not able to understand someone's communication due to a difference in slang, what kind of noise would it be? A) Environmental Noise B) Physiological Noise C) Syntactical Noise D) Semantic Noise 2 23. Which among the following is a key precondition for effective communication? A) Area of Community B) Area of Interaction C) Area of Knowledge D) Area of Commonness 24. The press theory focusing on the ethical aspect of media: A) Libertarian B) Soviet C) Social Responsibility D) Authoritarian 25. The Official Secrets Act was implemented in -------. A) 1887 B) 1923 C) 1901 D) 1865 26. What is the spoken form of defamation called? A) Libel B) Slander C) Contempt D) Tarnish 27. The current chairman of the Press Council: A) Markandey Katju B) J. R. Mudholkar C) Chandramauli Kumar Prasad D) None of these 28. Name the world’s first wire news service. A) Associated Press B) Reuters C) Agence France Presse D) Indo Asian News Service 29. Which model of communication emphasises “who says what in which channel to whom with what effect model” concept? A) Aristotles Model B) Harold Lasswell Model C) Shannon and Weaver Model D) SMCR Model 30. Francois Truffaut stressed the importance of the director of the film (author policy) in an article in Cahiers du Cinema. This concept was later explained by --------- and he called it “auteur theory”. A) Paul Rotha B) Firtz Lang C) Gerald Mast D) Andrew Sarris 31. A universal generalization is the main feature of: A) Purposive explanation B) Accidental explanation C) Inductive explanation D) Deductive explanation 32. The distinction of being the editor of two major English newspapers, The Times of India and the Statesman was held by: A) Robert Knight B) James Bryce C) Peter Reed D) Rudyard Kipling 33. Identify the chronological sequence of the following communication theorists. A) Harold Lasswell, Shannon and Weaver, Theodore Newcomb, Elisabeth Noelle Neuman B) Shannon and Weaver, Theodore Newcomb, Elisabeth Noelle Newman, Harold Lasswell C) Theodore Newcomb, Elisabeth Noelle Newman, Harold Lasswell, Shannon and Weaver. D) Shannon and Weaver, Harold Lasswell, Theodore Newcomb, Elisabeth Noelle Newman 3 34. The middle range theory of communication was advocated by: A) John Fiske B) Robert Merton C) Karl Marx D) M. S. Archer 35. The ‘Limited effects’ model of mass communication was a counter to: A) ABX model B) Circular model C) Diffusion model D) Hypodermic needle model 36. “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.” Who said this? A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Marshall Mc Luhan C) Winston Churchill D) Walter Lippman 37. The readability tests, Fog Index and Reading, Ease score, were first employed by: A) Newspapers B) Syndicates C) Radio Stations D) News agencies 38. Multi-tasking in journalism is due to: A) Media globalization B) Economic liberalization C) Social integration D) Technological convergence 39. Identify the correct sequence of the following laws of the press. A) Right to Information Act, Copyright Act, Official Secrets Act, Contempt of Courts Act B) Copyright Act, Official Secrets Act, Contempt of Courts Act, Right to Information Act C) Official Secrets Act, Copyright Act, Contempt of Courts Act, Right to Information Act D) Contempt of Courts Act, Copyright Act, Right to Information Act, Official Secrets Act 40. In journalists’ terminology ‘morgue’ is: A) Space between two columns B) Obituary column C) Newspaper library D) Space reserved for late breaking stories 41. What is ‘innuendo’? A) Implied libel B) Another legal term for slander C) Defamation through written word D) Libel per se 42. The satellite used for Satellite Instructional Television Experiment was: A) INSAT-1A B) ATS-6 C) INSAT-1B D) VSAT-2 43. Who devised the ‘hierarchy of human needs’, a guide in the process of Ad copy preparation? A) Abraham Maslow B) Philip Lesley C) Leon Festinger D) Paul Lazarsfeld 44. A sample deliberately chosen to be representative of a population is ------. A) Quota sample B) Random sample C) Purposive sample D) Convenience sample 4 45. A story sent ahead of time with the understanding that it is to be held for release later: A) A running story B) An embargoed story C) A human interest story D) A developing story 46. The first Indian talkie Alam Ara was directed by: A) J. F. Madan B) Ardeshir Irani C) Nataraja Mudaliar D) Dadasaheb Phalke 47. Who represented India in the International Commission for the study of communication problems, set up in 1977 under the chairmanship of Sean Mc Bride? A) V. R. Krishna Iyer B) G. K. Reddy C) Boobli George Verghese D) Dr. Karan Singh 48. The theory of attitude change developed by Fritz Heider A) Congruity Theory B) Cognitive Dissonance Theory C) Expectancy value Theory D) Balance Theory 49. The newspaper which published the investigative report on Watergate Scandal: A) The New York Times B) The Philadelphia Inquirer C) The Washington Post D) The Wall Street Journal 50. The famous comic character Mr. Bean was played by: A) John Howard B) Jim Carrey C) Eddie Murphy D) Rowan Atkinson 51. Lights used in the lighting triangle are: A) Key light, fill light and side light B) Key light, fill light and back light C) Key light, fill light and background light D) Key light, fill light and kicker light 52. Aspect ratio of HDTV is: A) 20 : 9 B) 16 : 9 C) 4 : 3 D) 5 : 3 53. The first pro-development soap opera in India was: A) Nukkad B) Ramayan C) Humlog D) Buniyad 54. The music director of Pather Panchali: A) Ustad Vilayat Khan B) Satyajit Ray C) Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan D) Pandit Ravi Shankar 55. The five ‘F’s of Public Relations are: A) Fast, factual, frank, fair, friendly B) Fast, factual, frank, fair, forward C) Fast, funny, frank, fair, forward D) Fast, first, frank, fair, friendly 56. Crystallizing Public Opinion is written by: A) Edward Bernays B) Ivy Lee C) Noam Choamsky D) Robert Hayden 5 57. The current President of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers: A) Tomas Brunegard B) Vinod Mehta C) Michael Golden D) None of these 58. A periodical published by a business organization for its employees or clients: A) Release B) House journal C) Media kit D) Handout 59. Match items in list I with items in list II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: List I List II a. Quota sampling 1. Positional Average b. Stratified sampling 2. Depending on all the observations c.