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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XX No. 4, june 1-15, 2010
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period May 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. How did ‘Synthia’ make news at J. Craig Venter Institute recently?

2. What fantastic feat in mountaineering did Arjun Vajpai achieve on May 22nd?

3. Name the airport near which an Air India Express flight crashlanded, killing 158 people, on May 22nd.

4. Which club won the 2010 UEFA Champions League for its first major European title since 1965?

5. Name the famous astronomer, known for his heliocentric theory, who was reburied by Polish priests as a hero recently, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.

6. Name the American actor, known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, who passed away recently.

7. What was ‘Operation Sea Breeze’, which attracted worldwide news and condemnation?

8. What is the Swedish “Treskilling Yellow”? Hint: It retained its title as the world’s most expensive item of its kind after a private sale recently.

9. The sale of which much-anticipated telecom facility netted the government a whopping Rs. 67,710 crore recently?

10. Name one of India’s oldest private sector banks that is to merge with the largest private sector bank, ICICI Bank.

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11. Who is the main Tirthankara in the Jain Temple on Mint Street?

12. In what shape is the Government Hospital for Women and Children in Egmore laid out?

13. One more on Egmore. Whose imposing statue would you see at the roundabout near the Egmore Railway Station?

14. Which was the first hospital in the country to start the free Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) treatment in 2004?

15. Which popular road in Mylapore-Luz area is named after a publican who in 1798 received a grant of six acres in Luz?

16. Who wrote the Satakopar Anthati in praise of Nammazhvar in the 9th Century?

17. Name the popular woman author, whose works were made into films by directors like K. Balachander and Mukta Srinivsan, and who passed away recently.

18. How did Siru Karumbur village, near Kaveripakkam, 20 km from Kancheepuram, make archaeological news recently?

19. What is the maximum member strength of the proposed Tamil Nadu Legislative Council?

20. Name the former AIADMK Minister – he is credited with having named MGR ‘Puratchi Thalaivar’ and was the man behind the daily Thennagam – who passed away recently.

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1. It is the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA, i.e. first creature since the beginning of creatures that has no ancestor; 2. He became the youngest Indian to successfully climb Mount Everest; 3. Bajpe airport in Mangalore; 4. Inter Milan; 5. Nicolaus Copernicus; 6. Gary Coleman; 7. An audacious raid carried out by the Israeli navy on a Gaza flotilla; 8. It’s a postage stamp; 9. 3G mobile licence spectrum; 10. Bank of Rajasthan.

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11. Chandra Prabhu, the eighth Tirthankara; 12. A female pelvis; 13. Veeran Muthu Kone; 14. Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine in Tambaram; 15. D’Silva Road; 16. Kambar; 17. Anuradha Ramanan; 18. Four inscriptions, two of Raja Raja Chola period and two of still earlier Chola period, have been unearthed there; 19. 78; 20. K.A. Krishnaswamy.

 

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