The Sunday Quiz This week, its all about newspapers
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On November 3, 1838, The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was published for the first time and till 1850 came out every Wednesday and Saturday. In 1860, the editor started India’s first news agency and became the Indian agent for Reuters. As of 2019 this is the second-largest selling English language daily in the world. Which newspaper is this?
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The Bombay Samachar was first published in July 1822. It had 14 pages including two sheets of advertisements, arrival and departures of ships, columns about Calcutta, Madras, London and opium prices in China. Founded by Parsi scholar Fardunjee Marzban who had earlier founded a native Press the newspaper is currently known as Mumbai Samachar. What distinction does this newspaper have?
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In 59 BC on the orders of an Emperor the Acta Diurna was started. The Acta Diurna was carved on stone and displayed in public places, like the Forum of Rome. Scribes were often commissioned to make copies to be sent to important dignitaries. This contribution to written communication which changed the world forever was the world’s first edition of what can be called as a newspaper. Who was the Emperor who started this?
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A forerunner of modern newspapers was the Notizie scritte (written notices) published monthly in Venice from 1556. These were the first handwritten monthly newspaper ever published and the price of Notizie scritte was one Venetian coin called a ‘gazetta’. Due to this what word do we have in English which means ‘a journal or newspaper’?
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All printed material have a machine-readable one-dimensional data code which is used to identify them. All newspapers and magazines anywhere in the world have such codes that begin with the digits 977. What codes are these that get their name from the pattern they project?
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This word came into existence, thanks to the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. who marketed compressed pills in the late 1880s. Soon the term was used to refer to any small compressed item. In 1900, the term was used in journalism to refer to papers that condensed stories into a simple format. What is this term that now usually refers to sensational stories such as crime, gossip and parties?
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The most popular format for newspapers is characterised by long vertical pages which are typically 57 cm in length. These are usually folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space and the most important newspaper stores are placed above the fold. What is the name for this format which comes from the description of the type of paper that’s used?
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The first instance of this popular entity in a newspaper was on December 21, 1913, when a journalist called Arthur Wayne published his creation in the Sunday newspaper New York World. Within a decade almost all American papers had their own version and on February 1930 the first one appeared in The Times in the U.K. The first of the popular (and highly competitive) of these was published in The Hindu on February 15, 1971. What interesting entity is this?
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In 1929, Stanley Morison joined the newspaper The Times of London and voiced his dislike of the typography. So he designed a new typeface and it was named after the newspaper, and because it was narrower than similar typefaces it was an advantage for documents. This led it to become almost default usage now. What did Morrison create for the newspaper?
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This is an English-language daily started by four law students, a school teacher and a college lecturer. In 1940, it became the first newspaper to print in colour, and the first newspaper to own an aeroplane to distribute newspapers. In 1995, it became the first ever Indian newspaper to have an online presence.