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

1. Name the Brazilian football legend who is to coach the Iraqi national team.

2. Name the petroleum giant that has signed an agreement with Russia to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean in a deal that could grow to $500 billion over time.

3. Name the hurricane that devastated parts of the Caribbean, the US East Coast and Atlantic Canada a few weeks ago.

4. Which iconic organisation’s new CEO is Tim Cook, who took over after its founder-CEO stepped down?

5. How did the Strelley Pool rock formation in Western Australia make paleontological news recently?

6. Which famous century-old waterway, as part of a $5.25 billion project, is to be expanded in order to double the movement of goods through it?

7. Google’s largest acquisition, valued at $12.5 billion, happened recently. What did it take over?

8. Tony Tan Keng Yam and Yoshihiko Noda are the new President and Prime Minister of which Asian countries?

9. According to a recent Tamil Nadu Government directive, what is to become of the new Assembly-Secretariat complex that now lies abandoned?

10. Following a recent discovery, the planet surrounding a pulsar PSR J1719-1438 is most likely to be made of…?

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11. Where on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway is the State Government planning a
Rs. 2,160 crore satellite township?

12. Name the sculptor-architect of marvels like the Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanniyakumari and Valluvar Kottam in Chennai, who passed away recently.

13. In a new scheme recently announced, how much will a State sportsperson get for winning a gold at the (a) Olympics and (b) Asian Games?

14. What will be the area of the expanded Chennai Corporation territory and how many wards and zones would it have?

15. Name the Tamil poet who has been selected for the 2011 Kendria Sahitya Akademi Award for Children’s Literature.

16. Which link in the proposed monorail corridor in Chennai will become the world’s longest, running 54 km when completed?

17. Name the two Ramon Magsaysay Award winners who at present live in Chennai.

18. ‘Kunjamma’, as she was fondly called, was awarded the Bharat Ratna. Who was this Madras ikon?

19. What is the name of Shiva in the Thayumanavar shrine in the Rock Fort Temple in Tiruchi?

20. Name the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly.