(Current Affairs questions are from the period June 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Which team retained the NBA basketball title recently?

2. June 23rd saw the 25th anniversary of the tragic air disaster involving Air India Flight 182. After whom was that plane named?

3. On June 18h, the World Health Organisation issued its first-ever guidance about using more than 240 essential medicines for which class of people?

4. Charlene Lynette Wittstock, a South African Olympic backstroke swimmer, is now the fiancée of which European royal?

5. Name the two who played the longest-ever tennis match, all of 665 minutes of play, at Wimbledon recently.

6. Julia Gillard recently became the first female Prime Minister of which Commonwealth country?

7. Where did the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies (G20), of which India is a part, have a summit recently?

8. How did the German TanDEM-X satellite make history with its pictures recently?

9. Name the new apolitical party launched by Amar Singh, six months after his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party.

10. The owner of an IPL franchise made it to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent member recently. Who?

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11. Name the two nominated Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu.

12. The great Carnatic musician Musiri Subramania Iyer did not hail from Musiri as the prefix suggests. Then where did he come from?

13.Which famous company in Chennai was founded by M.C. Cunnan Chetty in the 1920s?

14. What was the outcome when nature enthusiast Vivek Kunte in May 1978 brought 16 like-minded people together?

15. Name the narrow street opposite the Flower Bazaar telephone exchange where the main item of retail sale is flowers.

16. Name the organisation started by Balwant Trimbak Sahasrabudhe that functioned from Pachaiyappa’s Hall in late 1880s to “encourage Westerners to appreciate Indian classical music.”

17. Which area in Chennai takes its name from an army colonel who fell at the Battle of Arnee in 1790 and whose family was said to have had proprietary interests in that area?

18. Name the daughter of Sivanesan Chettiar who was resurrected by Sambandar.

19. Which reserved space around Chennai is haven to the Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo)?

20. Name the anicut built across the Kortaliyar river from where the Cooum starts.