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(Current Affairs questions are from the period August 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Poppy Flowers, a painting valued close to $50 million, was stolen recently from Cairo’s Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum. Name the celebrated painter.
2. Who was going to give world chess champion Viswanathan Anand a honorary doctorate but was unable to do so because of bureaucratic questions?
3. In which African country were three Indian peacekeepers killed recently in an apparent ambush by rebels?
4. Name the co-founder of a tech giant who recently filed patent infringement lawsuits against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo and YouTube among other eminent tech companies.
5. Name the two Pakistani fast bowlers recently suspended after a sting operation led to allegations that they were involved in ‘spot-fixing.’
6. Name the world’s largest computer maker who paid a $55 million fine to settle claims that it paid kickbacks in connection with U.S. government contracts.
7. A team of scientists led by Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool has released draft sequences of which globally-important food plant’s genome?
8. Off which Asian island is the volcano Mount Sinabung, which recently erupted for the first time in four centuries?
9. By winning the Wyndham Championship recently, who became the first Indian and 6th Asian-born golfer to win a US PGA title?
10. Name the Bharat Ratna awardee and Nobel Laureate whose birth centenary was celebrated on August 26th?
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11. What was the former name of the Sriramulu Poonga on Prakasam Road in Chennai?
12. What is the official or actual name of the San Thomé basilica?
13. Consecrated in 1786, it is the oldest surviving Freemasons’ Lodge in South India. What is its name?
14. Which ruler gifted a Thomas Willing painting of the The Last Supper to St. Mary’s Church in the Fort?
15. T. Murari, A.R. Srinivasan and A.V. Rajagopal are considered the first three Indians to figure in which prestigious club’s cricket team?
16. In the classic Meera, M.S. Subbulakshmi sang ‘Kaatriniley varum geetham...’, written by Kalki. But, who choreographed the dance sequences?
17. Name the Chennai embroidery atelier, near Kasturi Ranga Road, that has among its clients the House of Orange, Windsor Palace, the office of the French President and celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Claudia Schiffer.
18. Which temple did the English call ‘Colleana Varadaraja Swami Covella’?
19. The musically-talented ‘Puliyodarai’ Krishnamachariar had a more famous brother with a rather fierce prefix. Name him.
20. Name the Chennai-based author of The Imperial Agent which continues the story of Kipling’s Kim.
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1. William Shakespeare; 2. Wave; 3. It’s the most ‘cosmopolitan’ marine creature with its presence recorded in around a quarter of the world’s seas; 4. Black Sea; 5. Steve Waugh; 6. Hewlett-Packard; 7. Ecuador; 8. They collided near Mumbai leading to a big oil spill and its containers blocking the port; 9. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, 10. Singapore.
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11. Foreshore Estate signal; 12. Dravida Nadu; 13. Where the DMK was launched; 14. May Day Park, Nehru Park and Thiru Vi Ka Park; 15. Billroth (after Christian Albert Theodor Billroth); 16. At No. 16, Popham’s Broadway in George Town and it was called ‘The Broadway Bioscope’ and run by Mrs. Klug; 17. The 155-year-old Express Loco built by Kitson Thomson and Hewitson; 18. Pudupet; 19. Giacomo D’Angelis; 20. Dr. Edward Green Balfour (of Madras Museum fame).
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