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(Current Affairs questions are from the period January 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which cricketing innovation turned 40 on January 5th?
2. After which internationally famous literary personality has an international airport been opened on January 12th at Boscobel, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica?
3. Fredrik Colting’s sequel to a cult classic was banned recently in the US. Name the new book and the original.
4. On January 15th, the largest and the most popular general reference work on the Internet completed 10 years of existence. Name it.
5. On January 1st, what UN ‘position’ did India once again get after 19 years?
6. Who won the FIFA Ballon d'Or as world football player for the second successive year?
7. Which Asian country’s parliament recently ratified an agreement to turn over 380 square miles of territory to the People's Republic of China?
8. Animal activists were up in arms against which Asian country for burying 1.4 million domestic pigs alive after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease?
9. Name the actor-turned-politician who cut short his stint of more than eight years as Governor of California on January 3rd?
10. According to an arts researcher, Bobbio in northern Italy is featured in which iconic painting?
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11. K. Rajaraman is the MD of which company engaged in Chennai’s massive transport project?
12. Name the lyricist of hummable numbers Aayiram nilave va, Sirithu vazha vendum.., Punjai undu nanjai undu.. and Thenpandi Seemailae…?
13. Dewan Bahadur N. Subrahmanyam donated a hospital in Chennai. Name it and its original name?
14. After whom is R.S. Puram in Coimbatore named?
15. The tenth of the twelve volumes of the Tirumurai is called..?
16. V.S. Narasimhan, Hemanthraj Muliyil, V.R. Sekar and B.J. Chandran are collectively called….?
17. What happened to Hotel Sudharshan in the mid-1980s?
18. What is the single purpose of the NGO called TANKER Foundation in Chennai? Also expand the acronym.
19. Name the Madras resident who was designated the first official Astronomer of the (East India) Company in India.
20. In which area of Chennai are the Satthianathan Memorial Hall and Goschen Library located?
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1. The One Day International; 2. Ian Fleming; 3. Coming Through the Rye which is sequel to A Catcher in the Rye; 4. Wikipedia; 5. A two-year temporary, non-permanent stint in the Security Council; 6. Lionel Messi; 7. Tajikistan; 8. South Korea; 9. Arnold Schwarzenegger; 10. Mona Lisa.
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11. Chennai Metro Rail Limited; 12. Pulavar Pulamaipithan; 13. Kalyani Hospital, once called Hospital for Women & Children; 14. Rathna Sabapathy Mudaliar; 15. Thirumantiram; 16. Madras String Quartet; 17. It became Ambassador Pallava; 18. Standing for Tamil Nadu Kidney Research, the NGO helps kidney patients get treatment; 19. John Goldingham, 20. Chintadripet.
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