(Current Affairs questions are from the period February 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which legendary champion had the dubious distinction of being suspended by his sport’s federation for three months following publication of a photograph of him inhaling from a marijuana pipe?
2. The UN Secretary General has announced the setting up of a commission to probe the death of which country’s ex-premier in late 2007?
3. Who was Muttiah Muralitharan’s record-breaking 503rd ODI victim?
4. Which Indian won a Grammy in the Contemporary World Music Album category for his collaborative album Global Drum Project?
5. How did Iridium Satellite LLC’s Iridium 33 and Russia’s Kosmos-2251 make news on February 11th?
6. Jennifer Figge recently claimed to be the first woman to do this, but then when faced with accusations of impossibility, backtracked and said that she had not achieved the feat. What was it?
7. Name the Asian Prime Minister who had a shoe thrown at him by a protester on February 2nd.
8. In which region of India has a dozen new species of tree frogs been discovered by researchers?
9. Which cyber-giant flagged off its first ‘Internet Bus’ on February 3rd in Tamil Nadu to demystify the Internet?
10. How did France’s Nathalie Dechy and Israel’s Andy Ram become part of Indian sporting history on February 1st?
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11. Where in the Fort is ‘Clive’s Corner’?
12. With which Chennai twins is Dhanvantri Villa associated?
13. What is now located on the site from where Comte de Lally shelled Fort St. George in 1758?
14. Fibre-glass models of which two species of dinosaur grace the Museum complex in Chennai?
15. Where in Tamil Nadu was the first prison constructed, back in 1830?
16. Which 11th Century Chola King had an emblem of a tiger and fish on both sides of his coinage?
17. Which section in the Thirukkural has the most chapters, 70?
18. Madurai District has been bifurcated twice in the last 25 years, once in 1984 and then in 1997. Name the resultant new districts.
19. Name the three assembly constituencies in Chennai District starting with the letter ‘T’.
20. In which Tamil month is the victory of Lord Subramanya over Soorapadman celebrated by pilgrims at Tiruchendur?
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1. Michael Phelps; 2. Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto; 3. Gautam Gambhir; 4. Zakir Hussain; 5. They became the first man-made satellites to collide in outer space; 6. She claimed to be the first woman to swim the Atlantic Ocean; 7. Wen Jiabao of China; 8. Western Ghats; 9. Google India; 10. They lost in the final to give Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi the mixed doubles crown at the Australian Open.
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11. In Admiralty House on Charles Street; 12. Sir Ramaswami and Sir Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar; 13. Dare House; 14. Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus; 15. Vellore, it was called the Presidency Jail for Women; 16. Rajendra Chola; 17. ‘Porul’; 18. Dindugal and Theni; 19. Theagaraya Nagar, Triplicane and Thousand Lights; 20. Aippasi.
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