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(Current Affairs questions are from the period May 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the Pakistan city where Osama Bin Laden was killed?
2. The religious head, who was born Karol Wojtyla, was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI recently. How is the former better known?
3. Name the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh who was killed in a helicopter accident recently.
4. Why was one Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the news recently?
5. Which team recently replaced Liverpool as the most successful team in English football league history?
6. Name the prosperous Asian nation whose legendary founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, resigned from the cabinet after 52 years.
7. How much is Microsoft shelling out to purchase the Internet phone service Skype?
8. Which Indian Nobel Laureate’s birth sesquicentennial celebrations began on May 7th?
9. B.R. Hills and Kudremukh in Karnataka are to be the 40th and 41st locations of which prestigious wildlife initiative launched in the country in 1972?
10. Name the European leader chosen for the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
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11. The first auctioneers of Madras, concentrating on railway scrap, achieved fame later as makers of fine pencils. Name them.
12. What national merit list was 24-year-old law graduate S. Divyadharshini of Chennai the Tamil nadu topper of ?
13. Name the Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu.
14. How many seats did the AIADMK win in the recent Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections?
15. Which ‘handsome’ feature, now synonymous with the city of Chennai, was conceived and built in the 1870s by the then Governor, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff?
16. What Indian sporting first was achieved on February 10, 1952 at Chepauk?
17. The first industrial factory (on record) in Madras was a tannery set up in 1805 in San Thomé by a businessman whose name still lives on in a bustling locality. Name the person.
18. In 1914, what was started by Dr. Annie Besant on Armenian Street?
19. Which edifice in Chennai is modelled on the Athenian Temple of Theseus?
20. Which temple was built by Governor Collett on seeing the devotion of one of his Indian assistants, Viraraghavan?
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1. Abbottabad; 2. Pope John Paul II; 3. Dorjee Khandu; 4. Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF and a French Presidential hopeful, was arrested for sexually assaulting a hotel maid; 5. Manchester United; 6. Singapore; 7. $8.5 billion; 8. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore; 9. Tiger reserves; 10. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel
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11. V. Perumal Chetty; 12. The Civil Services Examination 2010, 13. Debendranath Sarangi; 14. 150; 15. The Marina; 16. India's first ever Test victory; 17. Thomas Parry; 18. YMIA; 19. Pachaiyappa's Hall; 20. Kalyana Varadaraja Perumal Temple in Collettpeta.
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