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

1. Which former European leader’s autobiography, A Journey, has become a bestseller?

2. Apple’s social network for music, launched as part of iTunes, is called...?

3. Whose postal service has launched the world’s first “intelligent” stamp that works with Image recognition technology activated by iPhone or Android smartphone?

4. Name the eminent scientist, head of atomic Energy Commission during India’s first Pokhran nuclear test, who died recently.

5. Name Stephen Hawking’s new book, which claims God was not necessary to create the universe.

6. What action threatened by Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center recently was condemned worldwide?

7. By winning the U.S. Open singles, Rafael Nadal became the 7th male player to achieve what?

8. Name the actor and Malayalam film winning National Awards for ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best Film’ recently.

9. To which humanitarian ‘order’ by the Supreme Court did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh react, saying “…the Court should not go into the realm of policy formulation”?

10. Who replaces Larry King on CNN primetime in January?

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11. Name the only temple in India where a King specifically states in an inscription that he has built an all-stone temple, a ‘kattrali’.

12. A recently announced annual award, initiated by The Hindu and Saregama India and presented by RmKV, to recognise merit and promise in a young Carnatic vocalist annually, is named after…?

13. The recently inaugurated library in Chennai, reportedly Asia’s second biggest and South Asia’s biggest, is named after whom?

14. Which Committee listed (in 2008) 467 buildings/places of historical importance/aesthetic value/popular venues in Chennai?

15. Name the Armenian primarily responsible for building Chennai’s St. Matthias’ and St. Rita’s Churches?

16. Which hospital, established in a property on the then Edward Elliot’s Road, was donated by Freemason N. Subramanyan to the Church of South India.

17. Which theatre on Mount Road was built by Umapathy but then bought by a leading star and named after one of his children?

18. Which popular thriller starring Sivaji Ganesan was loosely based on Uttam Kumar-starrer Shesh Ankha, a film inspired by To Chase a Crooked Shadow?

19. Apart from Chennai, name two other cities where Anna University has campuses.

20. Name Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare.