Media Quiz

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1
CNN got its global breakthrough during/after...
Global Economic Crises in 2008
The Gulf War in 1991
The Korean War
9/11, 2001
2
Al Jazeera is...
a muslim extremist news channel
a terrorist organisation
a middle-eastern news corporation
a muslim entertainment channel
3
The 2011 News of the World Scandal in the UK was all about illegal...
photos
phone-hacking
bribery of sources
marketing
4
Google was founded in...
1988
1998
1978
2008
5
Wikipedia was started in...
2002
2001
2000
1999
6
Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai is famous for defending...
girls' right to education
the Taliban in western media
Pakistani women's right to wear veils
her brother from kidnappers
7
Rupert Murdoch owns how many media corporations around the world?
50
800
500
100
8
The decade of TV was the
1940s
1950s
1920s
1930s
9
BBC World News Radio broadcasts in...
90 countries
80 countries
75 countries
85 countries
10
The first email was sent...
1991
1971
1981
2001
11
The decade of radio was the
1930s
1920s
1940s
1950s
12
Wikileaks publishes...
war stories
budget leaks
state and media secrets
celebrity gossip
13
CNN stands for...
Common Network of News
Covering News Now
Cable News Network
Critical News Network
14
The first text message was sent in...
1972
2002
1992
1982
15
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded
Doris Lessing
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Alice Munro
16
"The Wireless" is an old expression meaning...
TV
Telephone
Radio
Telegraph
17
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded the...
UN
OSCE
OPCW
Red Cross
18
Reuter's is a...
Press agency
Social networking site
Newspaper
Global news channel
19
BBC stands for...
British Broadcasting Corporation
Boring British Casting
British Betting Company
Britain's Broadcast Company
20
The controversial Wikileaks leader and founder is...
Samuel Morse
Julian Assange
Rupert Murdoch
Steve Jobs

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