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Each section contains 100 MCQs on West Bengal .
21
Match the following
List-I List-II
a. Desh 1. Newspaper
b. Matir Katha 2. Web portal
c. 24 Ghanta 3. Magazine
d. Tattobodhini 4. TV channel
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Desh is a magazine published in West Bengal. Matir Khata is an agriculture based web portal that connects the farmers in rural Bengal to the new developments in agriculture. 24 Ghanta is a private TV channel operating in West Bengal. Tattobodhini was a newspaper published in West Bengal (1843).
22
Kolkata radio station was the ............... station set up in India?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
Kolkata was the second city after Mumbai to have a radio station on 26th August, 1927.
23
In which Samachar Darpan i.e. first Bengali language newspaper was started?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Samachar Darpan i.e. the first Bengali newspaper was started on 23rd May, 1818. It was the first non-English nespaper in India.
24
General Post Office at Kolkata was part of which British structure?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Initially the building of General Post Office was a part of Fort William. Presently, the GPO is located at B.B.D Bagh that was earlier known as Dalhousie Square.
25
DD Bangla telecasts programs in regional language other than Bengali?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Doordarshan Bangla telecasts programs in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali and Santhali.
26
Bengali Little Magazine Movement is believed to start with the starting of which popular magazine?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Bengali Little Magazine Movement is believed to start with the starting of the popular magazine 'Kallol'. In this movement, the magazines that were started contained experimental poetry, modernist thoughts and new ideas of free thinking. Some of them were Uttara and Pubasha.
27
Balurghat radio station is located in which district of West Bengal?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
Basanti radio station is located in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Midnapore radio station is located in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Balurghat radio station is located in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal. Chinsurah radio station is located in Hooghly district of West Bengal.
28
Apart from Bengali and English which other language newspapers were also published for the first time from West Bengal?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
The first Urdu newspaper 'Mirat-ul-Akhbaar' was started on 12th April, 1822, in West Bengal under the patronage of Raja Rammohan Roy. The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Mardant' was started on 30th May, 1826, in West Bengal by Pt Jugal Kishore Shukla.
29
Amrita Bazar Patrika group started which other newspaper from West Bengal in 1937?
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
Amrita Bazar Patrika group started Bengali newspaper 'Jugantar' from West Bengal in 1937.
30
Who was the first Governor of West Bengal
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
The first Governor of West Bengal was Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari appointed on 15th August, 1947.