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(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. According to a recent UN prediction, which will be the most
populous country in Europe in 2050: France, Germany or UK?
2. Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was assassinated on March 2nd, was the President of which small and poor African country?
3. Near which stadium and in which city were seven Sri Lankan cricket players wounded and six policemen killed in shootings on March 3rd?
4. The NASA telescope launched recently to search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets is named after which famous astronomer?
5. The Cobbe portrait recently discovered in an Irish home is
considered by experts to be the only surviving portrait of which
famous literary person?
6. Who is to be the next Chief Election Commissioner?
7. How much did Vijay Mallya successfully bid for Mahatma Gandhi’s personal artifacts recently?
8. In a long editorial marking International Women’s Day on March 8th the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano pronounced which invention to have done more to “liberate” women than the contraceptive pill?
9. At which place near the national capital have 73 Harappan-era burial sites been found?
10. Name the person of Indian origin appointed Federal Chief
Information Officer in the U.S.
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11. Who was the person who was awarded the Bharat Ratna and lived at 94 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (Edward Elliot’s) Road in Chennai?
12. Where in Chennai was the first ‘world-class’ bus shelter, with a coin-vending machine, a Global Positioning System and a digital clock which reads temperature, among other things, inaugurated recently?
13. What was the name of the first student wing of the Dravidian movement – it was founded by M. Karunanidhi – called?
14. What is common to the members from Ramanathapuram
Rasipuram(SC) Tiruchendur and Tiruchengode constituencies in the 14th Lok Sabha?
15. What is the leader in Oyilattam who writes the songs and leads his fellow-dancers generally called?
16. What is the magazine of the Government of Tamil Nadu called?
17. What is the actual name for ‘Co-optex’?
18. Which institute was founded by Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah and Mrs. Elizabeth Adiseshiah in January 1971?
19. In which major town is Periyar University located?
20. Where is the Suryanaar Koil?
Click here to view answers for the quiz
1. United Kingdom; 2. Guinea-Bissau; 3. Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore; 4. Johannes Kepler; 5. William Shakespeare; 6. Navin Chawla; 7. $1.8 million; 8. The washing machine; 9. Farmana, Haryana; 10. Vivek Kundra.
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11. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (in a building called Girija);
12. Near the Kannagi statue; 13. ‘Tamil Nadu Tamil Manavar Mandram’; 14. They are the only four lady Lok Sabha MPs from the State;
15. Annavi; 16. Tamil Arasu; 17. Tamilnadu Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society; 18. Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS);
19. Salem; 20. In the hamlet of Tirumangalakkudi.
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