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(Current Affairs questions are from the period August 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1) Simple one to start with. In which event (be specific) did Abhinav Bindra win India's first individual gold at the Olympics?
2) Name the shrine in Himachal Pradesh where at least 146 people died in a stampede in August.
3) Name the breakaway republic of Georgia where Georgia and Russia clashed on August 8th.
4) Name the first European in 78 years to win the 2008 PGA Golf Championship, 2008’s last major.
5) Name Nepal’s first republican Prime Minister elected in August.
6) Name the veteran Marxist pioneer and former general secretary of the CPI(M) who passed away on August 1st.
7) Which South American country has created a fund to seek donations from developed countries to protect the Amazon rain forest and fight global warming?
8) Which IIT was inaugurated in Kanpur on August 2nd?
9) Name the Nobel Prize-winning author of such works as The Gulag Archipelago and Cancer Ward, who passed away recently.
10) Name the Mumbai street/road that has made it to the list of Wealth Bulletin's Top 10 most-expensive streets in the world.
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11) In the world of music, V.S. Narasimhan, Hemanthraj Muliyil, V.R. Sekar and B. J. Chandran are the…?
12) Which heritage building on Mount Road was designed by J.H. Stephen of the Madras PWD for W.E. Smith’s, leading wholesale druggists of the time?
13) Which school now stands in what was once Sullivan’s Gardens?
14) One more on schools. On which ‘rich’ sounding street would you see the Madras Progressive Union School, the Hindu Theological School and the Thondaimandalam Thruva Vellalar School?
15) Between the stretches of which TN districts is fishing by mechanised boats prohibited between April 15th and May 29th?
16) Which two Head Post Offices in Chennai began to work till 10 p.m. from August 4th?
17) The actual name of Big Street in Triplicane is…?
18) Which stately edifice was built by the English residents of Madras as thanksgiving for not being subjected to the consequences of the 1857 Uprising?
19) Which church in Fort St. George predated St. Mary's by 50 years?
20) Name the first Speaker of the first Madras Legislative Assembly (1952).
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1. Men’s 10m air rifle; 2. Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district;
3. South Ossetia; 4.Padraig Harrington; 5. Prachanda; 6. Harkishan Singh Surjeet; 7. Brazil; 8. Rajasthan; 9. Alexander Solzhenitsyn;
10. Altamont Road (S.K. Barodawalla Marg).
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11. Madras String Quartet; 12. Kardyl, or the Bharat Insurance, Building; 13. St . Ebba’s School; 14. Mint Street; 15. Thiruvallur to Kanniyakumari; 16. Mylapore and T’ Nagar; 17. Veeraraghava Mudali Street; 18. Memorial Hall, near Central; 19. St. Andrew’s Church of the Capuchins; 20. J. Sivashanmugam Pillai.
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