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(Current Affairs questions are from the period November 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the Indian Navy ship that recently undertook a successful mission tackling Somali pirates.
2. Who has been made the Palestinian State's President, a position that has been vacant since Yasser Arafat's death in 2004?
3. NASA recently used a software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking to successfully do what?
4. Which European country has decided to compensate victims of nuclear tests that began in the 1960s in the South Pacific?
5. This Asian country has, in order to help guarantee its food security, secured a land-lease in the world's fourth largest island. Name both the countries.
6. Jørn Oberg Utzon, a Danish architect who passed away on
November 29th, was most noted for designing which building in Australia?
7. Thanks to the promise of international funding and an East
German artist Gert Hof, which of the ancient Wonders of the World is to be re-created on a bigger scale?
8. Which massive creature became the first extinct animal to have its genome sequenced, leading to a debate on it being brought back to life?
9. Which tennis star claimed the season-ending Masters' Cup in Shanghai?
10. In which famous global building was a lavish, $23 million
ceiling painting unveiled by its Spanish artist, Miquel Barcelo, on November 18th?
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11. Name the first alumnus of the OTA in Chennai to be awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
12. What is the name of the area where the Chennai Trade
Centre is situated?
13. Sydenham's Road in Chennai is now called…?
14. Name Tamil Nadu's first-ever woman Chief Secretary. (Clue: She was appointed in December 2002.)
15. How is Kallarai Thiruvizha referred to in English?
16. Rangaswamy Iyengar, a retired bureaucrat, is considered the first resident of which famous thoroughfare in Chennai?
17. According to NHAI, which highway has the following route:
Chennai-Tiruchchirappalli- Dindigul-Periyakulam-Theni?
18. If you are visiting Kodaikanal, in which district of the State
will you be in?
19. Who created Gangaikondacholapuram as the capital of the Cholas?
20. If the IATA code for Chennai's international airport is MAA, what is it in the International Civil Aviation Organisation's code-naming?
Click here to view answers for the quiz
1. INS Tabar; 2. Mahmoud Abbas; 3. Test the first deep space
communications network modelled on the Internet; 4. France; 5. South
Korea and Madagascar; 6. Sydney Opera House; 7. Colossus of Rhodes; 8. Wooly mammoth; 9. Novak Djokovic; 10. United Nations.
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11. Major R. Parameshwaran; 12. Nandambakkam; 13. Raja Muthiah Salai; 14. Lakshmi Pranesh; 15. All Souls' Day; 16. Ranganathan Street; 17. NH 45; 18. Dindigul; 19. Rajendra Chola 1; 20. VOMM.
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