Print Culture Quiz
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” -Robert Collier
What is Calligraphy?
Poetry
Textbook
Flowers arrangement
Art of stylized writing
Which is the oldest printed book of Japan?
Bible
Diamond Sutra
Mahabharat
Ukiyo
What was the ancient name of Tokyo?
Edo
Osaka
Gifu
None of these
Who was known for an art form called ukiyo?
Ching ho
Kitagawa Utamaro
Gutenberg
None
The Chinese paper reached Europe through
Silk Route
Sea route
Buddhist missionaries
Merchants
Which of the following travellers brought back the art of wood block printing to Italy?
Columbus
Marco Polo
Magellon
Dominigos
Who invented the first known printing press and where?
Henry Ford, USA
Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Henry Stanly, America
Johann Gutenberg, Germany
What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?
The merchant of Venice
Dictionary
Bible
None
Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of god and the greatest one.”
Charles Dickens
J. V. Schely
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation movement is related to the religion
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
Jainism
An annual publication giving astronomical data was known as
Chaap book
Penny book
Almanal
Journal
What were ‘Penny Chapbooks’?
Pocket sized book
Journal
Ritual calendar
Newspaper
Who authored ‘Gitagovinda’?
Jayadev
Raja ram mohan rai
J. A. Hickey
Chandu Menon
Printing Press first came to India with—
The Dutch
Portuguese Missionaries
The French
The English
The first Indian to publish a newspaper was
Ram Mohan Roy
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gangadhar Bhattacharya
Ranade
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