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

1. Who on April 15th became the third Indian, after Kapil Dev and Rahul Dravid, to be inducted into the Laureus World Sports Academy?

2. Nokia recently announced the acquisition of which telecom network firm that would make it the world’s largest supplier of telecom equipment.

3. Name the German Nobel Laureate, who once served in Adolf Hitler’s forces and who passed away recently.

4. Which Indian won the bronze medal in the World women’s chess championships recently?

5. On April 9th, whom did President Pranab Mukherjee appoint as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)?

6. Minor planet 4538, located somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, is named after which person honoured with a Padma Vibhushan?

7. The new capital city of Andhra Pradesh coming up in the Vijayawada-Guntur region will be called…?

8. Which ambitious scientific apparatus has been restarted after two years following an upgrade that could see it making scientific history for a second time?

9. What was ‘Operation Raahat’, which was conducted on a large scale between April 1st and 11th?

10. Which Maharashtra city was named as the National Earth Hour Capital 2015 on April 9th?

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11. What happened in Madras 200 years ago on April 28th consequent to the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia?

12. Name the water body that features at the beginning pages of Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan?

13. What twin, aesthetic structures in Chennai, standing 57 feet tall each, were built to celebrate the 75th birth anniversary of C.N. Annadurai?

14. Which place of worship was built by the Roman Catholic fishermen, belonging to the Gurukula Vamsa Varunakula Mudaliar community, in 1829?

15. What commodity came to India from abroad for the first time when the clipper Tuscany docked in 1833?

16. Which public playing facility, now in disuse, owes its existence to J.P.L. Shenoy, ics, who was Commissioner of Madras Corporation in the 1940s?

17. Which famous products of Nachiarkoil and Pattamadai have GI tags?

18. Chennai’s Ilavazhagi and A. Maria Irudayam have long been world champions in which game/sport?

19. Which famous couple have been long-time residents of 12 North Mada Street, Mylapore?

20. Which is the oldest existing building in Fort St. George?