(Current Affairs questions are from the period February1st to 15th. Questions 11-20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. In a significant judgement, how many telecom licences sold in 2008 did the Supreme Court cancel as part of the 2G scam case?

2. The New York Giants won the latest edition of which famous sporting encounter on February 5th?

3. Name the champion cyclist recently banned for two years and stripped of the 2010 Tour de France title.

4. What royal achievement did February 6th mark in the United Kingdom?

5. Who has become the costliest player in the IPL, with Chennai Super Kings paying $2 million for him at the recent auction?

6. Who won six Grammies, including record, song and album of the year, at the recent awards night in Los Angeles?

7. Mohammed Waheed Hassan is the new head of which SAARC country following the ouster of the previous President?

8. Who has become the first Indian to win the coveted ‘US National Humanities Medal’?

9. Name the critically-acclaimed Irish writer whose children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen has been published for the first time.

10. Which famous cereal maker has purchased the snack-maker Pringles from Procter & Gamble for $2.7 billion?

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11. The Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctury was created in 1967 to help conserve which endangered herbivore endemic to India?

12. By what more popular name is the Whiteaway Laidlaw building opposite the Bata showroom on Mount Road known?

13. In which three languages are the inscriptions on the Petrus Uscan plaque on the Saidapet (Marmalong) Bridge?

14. According to legend, which Azhwar was an incarnation of Vishnu's sword Nandaki and born in Mylapore?

15. Which designer of a modern capital city designed the commemorative plaque found in the Madras Club at Adyar? (The plaque remembers those of its members who died during World War I.)

16. What ‘fruity’ name did the first cemetery of the British in Madras bear?

17. The iconic Nataraja statue that has now come to be synonymous with Indian bronzes and sculptures is from which place in Thiruvallur District?

18. What is the posthumous claim to fame of Elizabeth Baker (the wife of the first President of the Madras Agency), who died in 1652?

19. The earliest book to be printed in India was in Tamil. Name this 1578 publication.

20. What first, with respect to Madras, does the 1934 film Srinivas Kalyanam have?