(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Where, as part of an ambitious physics experiment, was a new world record for the highest energy man-made particle collisions set on March 30th?

2. The estate of which popular musician recently signed the biggest recording deal in history [worth more than $200m(£ 133m)] with Sony Music?

3. What took place on March 27th from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time around the world?

4. Which country has reduced the number of its time zones by two to make the giant nation more manageable to run and to boost its economy?

5. Name the two new franchises in the Indian Premier League.

6. Name the former, four-time Prime Minister of Nepal, at the forefront of the movement that brought down King Gyanendra’s rule, who passed away recently.

7. March 20th was a day observed globally to celebrate which once-very common but now sparse bird species that all of us have seen in the cities?

8. The United Kingdom on March 17th celebrated the golden jubilee of what on its currency notes?

9. Love always wins over envy and hatred is a new book praising an European Prime Minister as ‘Superman’ etc. Name the leader.

10. Which legend of Indian cinema has agreed to lend his face and voice to promote the ‘Save our Tigers’ initiative?

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11. Where must you go to view the ‘Semmozhi Sirpa Poonga’ (Classical Tamil Sculptures Park)?

12. What does the critically-acclaimed Azhagu, a six-minute Tamil short film, stress and who has directed it?

13. The Indian Navy’s third Kolkata class warship – the third destroyer under Project 15 Alpha – was launched recently. What is it called?

14. Which religious structure in Royapuram is named after Jal Phiroj Clubwala?

15. Which popular eatery in Chennai was started by Thom Petty in 2005 in Chetput?

16. Name the theatres that the film pioneer Raghupathy Venkiah set up next to Mint in 1916 and in Purasawalkam in 1918, respectively.

17. Two of the four princely families still recognised by the Government of India with a pension are from Tamil Nadu. Name them.

18. Which edifice in Chennai has/had its two main blocks named Humayun Mahal and Khalsa Mahal?

19. Name the first school started by the Presentation Order in Madras.

20. ‘Go Beyond’ is the single minded philosophy that governs life at which well-known company, established in the 18th Century in this part of the world?