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(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the legendary Indian actor-producer-director, called the ‘eternal romantic’, who passed away in London recently.
2. Which team regained the Davis Cup by beating Argentina at home?
3. The 70th anniversary of which infamous attack, which led to the US entering World War II, was commemorated on December 7th?
4. Which country signed an accession treaty to the European Union on December 9th, to become the 28th member state on July 1, 2013?
5. In which African city was the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference held recently?
6. Which game recently became the fastest selling entertainment product of all time by passing $1billion in sales in just 16 days?
7. Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ is…?
8. Why was December 15th important in the chronicles of the Iraq War?
9. Cambridge University has put online the notebooks of which celebrated scientist on which much classical science is based?
10. Which co-founder of a cyber-giant is to build the largest plane ever that is capable of launching rockets?
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11. The first exclusive university for women in the country is in Tamil Nadu. After whom is it named?
12. Whose large statue is at the Whannel’s Road junction near the Egmore Station?
13. Who is the current Chief Justice of the Madras High Court?
14. Name the two districts in the State whose names start with the 16th letter of the English alphabet.
15. Which sabha came about after a ‘censure’ of Mysore T. Chowdiah?
16. Who was the Governor of Madras when India got its Independence?
17. In whose honour was ‘Poochi’ Srinivasa Iyengar’s Satatatmu brovumayya chakravartini composed?
18. Name the first missionary of the Church of Scotland after whom a 156-year-old place of worship in Chennai is named.
19. Who, along with Dorothy Jinarajadasa and Margaret Cousins, founded the Women’s Indian Association in 1917?
20. In which street near the Chenna Kesavaperumal temple can you buy kungumam, manjapodi and similar items in bulk?
Click here to view answers for the quiz
1. Dev Anand; 2. Spain; 3. Pearl Harbour; 4. Croatia; 5. Durban; 6. ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’; 7. The Protestor; 8. The US flag was lowered to mark the end of US military operations in the country after nearly nine years; 9. Sir Isaac Newton; 10. Paul Allen of Microsoft.
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11. Mother Teresa; 12. Veeran Azhagu Muthu Kone; 13. M.Y. Eqbal; 14. Perambalur and Pudukkottai; 15. Indian Fine Arts Society; 16. Sir Archibald Edward Nye; 17. King George V; 18. Rev. John Anderson of the Anderson Church fame; 19. Annie Besant; 20. Devaraja (Mudali) Street.
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