History of the Press
Twenty random questions from a hard bank of thirty on world and Nigerian press history.
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In which German city did Johannes Gutenberg develop his movable-type printing press?
- Berlin
- Mainz
- Hamburg
- Munich
What was the first successful daily newspaper in English?
- The Guardian (1821)
- The Daily Mail (1896)
- The Times (1785)
- The Daily Courant (1702)
The "penny press" of the 1830s refers to:
- Government gazettes
- Newspapers that cost a pound
- Printing presses made of copper
- Cheap newspapers aimed at a mass readership
The term "yellow journalism" is linked to:
- Yellow paper
- A disease
- A comic strip character called "The Yellow Kid"
- Journalists' uniforms
Which two publishers' 1890s circulation war in New York is linked with yellow journalism?
- Alex Ibru and Nduka Obaigbena
- Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner
- Woodward and Bernstein
- Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
Who founded the Reuters news agency in London in 1851?
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Charles Havas
- John Walter
- Paul Julius Reuter
The Associated Press (AP) was founded in:
- 1846
- 1900
- 1776
- 1946
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