(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Who was voted the ‘Cricketer of the Generation’ by an eminent 50-member jury at the recent ESPN Cricinfo Awards?

2. Which Indian airline recently signed a deal worth $4.4 billion with Boeing for the supply of 42 Next Generation 737 MAX8 ­aircraft?

3. Which Northeastern State ­recently won its first Santosh ­Trophy, the symbol of supremacy in the national football championship?

4. Who has regained the top spot as the world’s richest billionaire, with a net worth of $76 billion, according to Forbes magazine’s annual list?

5. How many districts will there be in the new State of Telangana?

6. Which film won the most statuettes, a total of seven, at this year’s Oscars ceremony?

7. India-born scientist, Dr. Anil Jain has built ‘Phantom’, the world’s first 3D model of which element of the human body?

8. Which former Union Minister of Defence and Finance recently released his book India at Risk – Mistakes, Misconceptions and Misadventures of Security Policy, on 60 years of Indian security issues?

9. Who has been chosen for the prestigious International Gandhi Peace Prize for 2013?

10. Irish fruit firm Fyffes and U.S. rival Chiquita recently agreed to combine, in an all-stock deal, ­valued at about $1.07 billion, to create the world’s largest ­company for which common fruit?

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11. Which venerable Madras institution was in 1970 given an award by UNESCO for the outstanding work it had done in the eradication of small-pox by producing the Freeze Dried Smallpox Vaccine?

12. Name the two Tamilians who were awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1998.

13. What was started in Madras by Harry Crowe Buck in 1920?

14. Which road in Nungambak­kam is named after a civil surgeon, who in 1789 established a nopalry in the present-day Nanda­nam-Saidapet area?

15. What became of the garden measuring 840 x 500 yards, that Governor Collet gave Sunku Rama, after Governor Pitt decided to take it over?

16. In which district is the Palani Murugan temple?

17. What is the present name of the college that started out as Madras Women’s College with an intake of 33 students?

18. What was famous film-maker K. Subrahmanyam forced to sell to S.S. Vasan for Rs. 86,427-11-9, because of financial problems?

19. Which ‘institution’ was inaugurated on September 27, 1947 at St. George’s Cathedral?

20. A simple one to finish. How many domes are there in the Thousand Lights Mosque?