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(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which European team won the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup?
2. Name the leader of a reclusive and ‘controversial’ Asian country who died on December 17th.
3. Which big global power finally joined the WTO after 18 years of talks and negotiations?
4. Name the eminent leader and playwright, the Czech Republic's first President after the Velvet Revolution, who died recently.
5. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recently made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009. What is it called?
6. Name the South Pacific island that changed its alignment on December 29th with the world time zone so as to become three hours ahead of Sydney after being 21 hours behind all these years.
7. Which African nation, in the news for most of 2011 celebrated its independence for the first time in 42 years on December 24th?
8. Which relic of the Buddha is there in the newly consecrated Buddha Memorial Centre in Kaohsiung, in Taiwan?
9. According to a recent announcement, whose birthday on December 22nd will henceforth be celebrated as ‘National Mathematics Day’?
10. Name the India-born Nobel Laureate who has recently been conferred a Knighthood?
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11. If it was Madurai for M.S. Subbulakshmi, then what was it for G.N. Balasubramaniam?
12. What is inscribed on the commemorative pillar in the War Memorial near Madras Port?
13. Name the 320-hectare reserve forest, abutting the Velachery-Tambaram main road.
14. Which instrumentalist was the music director of the hit film of the 1970s Deivam?
15. Where was the Kalaimagal Meenakshisundram Archaeological Learning & Research Centre founded in 1981?
16. Which bustling locality was conferred its name by Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi?
17. Which regiment’s motto is Swadharme Nidhanam Shreyaha?
18. Name the celebrity parents of Nandan, who released a pamphlet Contours of Leninism at the CPI(M) summit in 2008.
19. Which holder of the Bharat Ratna is memorialised next to the Tholkappia Poonga in Chennai?
20. From which constituency did MGR win the 1967 and 1971 elections?
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1. Barcelona FC; 2. Kim Jong-il; 3. Russia; 4. Vaclav Havel; 5. Chi_b (3P); 6. Samoa; 7. Libya; 8. A tooth; 9. Srinivasa Ramanujan; 10. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
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11. Gudalur; 12. The inscription 'Victory' and the dates of the First and Second World Wars, all in Tamil; 13. Nanmangalam Reserve Forest; 14. Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan; 15. Erode; 16. Nanganallur; 17. Madras Regiment; 18. Mani Ratnam and Suhasini; 19. B.R. Ambedkar; 20. St. Thomas' Mount
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