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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XX No. 9, august 16-31, 2010
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

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

1. Name the co-founder of a leading tech major who recently pledged the majority of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death.

2. Which Asian country recently overtook the United States to become the world’s biggest energy consumer?

3. How did Indian batsman Pragyan Ojha make history on July 22nd?

4. Name the South African Nobel Laureate who has announced that he is to withdraw from public life.

5. Spain’s Alberto Contador recently won which globally prestigious sporting event for the third time in a row?

6. Which Indian ‘cultural property’ was recently added to the UNESCO World Heritage List?

7. What is common to A.K. Bansal (hockey), L. Ibomcha Singh (boxing), Subhash Agarwal (billiards and snooker), A.K. Kutty (athletics) and Capt. Chand Roop (wrestling)?

8. Name the world’s largest consumer products company which has signed a 10-year global sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee covering the next three Summer Games and two Winter Olympics.

9. Who recently became the twelfth Indian to score a Test hundred on debut?

10. On July 30th, Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi took charge as the….?

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11. Which current Lok Sabha MP has acted in such films as Anbu Thozhi and Ennai Paar Yogam Varum?

12. Which author and commentator on Tamil was called ‘Senthamizh Selvar’ and ‘Mozhi Gnayiru’ (Sun of language)?

13. What is www.agaraadhi. com?

14. In the context of musical instruments, what are Sadyo­jatam, Isanam, Tatpurusham, Aghoram and Vamadevam?

15. Name the veteran Chennai theatre personality, the founder of MTC Productions, who passed away recently.

16. Which institution on its website prides itself as “the only institution in the world to teach thevaram, divyaprabhan­dam, Tamil music and dance”?

17. What entomological prefix was given to the Carnatic musician Ramanathapuram Sri­nivasa Iyengar?

18. Which place, or its environs, in the State was once called Baramahal?

19. In Chennai, on which road are the Chindatripet MRTS station and May Day Park located?

20. Who was the King of ­England when Madras was founded in 1639?

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1. Paul Allen of Microsoft; 2. China; 3. He became Muttiah Muralitharan’s 800th and final test victim; 4. Desmond Tutu; 5. The Tour de France cycle race; 6. Jantar Mantar; 7. They have been recommended for this year’s Dronacharya Award; 8. Procter & Gamble; 9. Suresh Raina; 10. Chief Election Commissioner.

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11. Thol. Thirumavalavan; 12. Devaneya Pavanar; 13. It is a new online Tamil dictionary project launched by Anna University; 14. The five faces of the Pancha Mukha Vadyam; 15. Mithran Devanesen; 16. The Tamil Music College of Government of Tamil Nadu which is patronised by the Tamil Isai Sangam; 17. ‘Poochi’; 18. Salem, 19. Deputy Mayor Kabalamoorthy Road; 20. Charles I.

 

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Govt. dithers on green spaces
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The making of a Madras calendar
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