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(Current Affairs questions are from the period April 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Simple one to begin with. Who was chosen Player of the Tournament at the ICC cricket World Cup won by India?
2. Name the Indian who won the Asian billiards championship recently.
3. In a surprise development, the Human Resources Director, Mohandas Pai, and a co-founder of the company, K. Dinesh, stepped down. Name the company.
4. Name the Mughal emperor whose celebrated life-size portrait is attributed to Abu’l Hasan, Nadir al-Zaman (dated 1617 AD). It was sold recently for Rs. 10 crore.
5. Which crusader in the news recently for a democratic cause has the given names Kisan Baburao?
6. A high-profile BRICS summit was held in Sanya, China recently. Name the BRICS countries.
7. Name the rights activist who was given bail on April 15th by the Supreme Court after it observed that no case of sedition had been made out against the person.
8. What was Google’s April Fool Prank this year?
9. April 13th marked the Golden Jubilee of which human endeavour, first achieved by a Russian pilot.
10. Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected President of a former Soviet Union country, the largest landlocked country in the world, winning 95% of the votes, to continue in a post he has held since 1990. Which country?
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11. Name the director of Kalakshetra who took over as the Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification on April 1st.
12. What is the screen name of the actor born Kumaresan Duraisamy?
13. Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam recently gave away the inaugural edition of which award to Nisha Rajagopal in Chennai recently?
14. Name the talented actress, introduced by K. Balachander in Aval Oru Thodarkathai and who acted in Ilayaraja’s debut film Annakili, who passed away recently.
15. Tamil Nadu’s largest assembly constituency in 2006 (9.41 lakh electorate) became one of the smaller ones this year (1.82 lakh). Name it.
16. Fill in the blank with the name of the prestigious college whose students used to label themselves ‘Princes of _______’.
17. Where in the State is the regimental centre of the Madras Regiment, the oldest regiment of the Indian Army?
18. What did the locals of Madras call the river in Madras which the English settlers called North River?
19. How is Madras College for Women, the first in Madras when opened in 1914, now known?
20. What would you now find in Yanaikulam (Elephant Tank), once part of the Chepauk Palace complex in Triplicane?
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1. Yuvraj Singh; 2. Alok Kumar, 3. Infosys; 4. Jahangir; 5. Anna Hazare; 6. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; 7. Binayak Sen; 8. Gmail Motion; 9. Human space travel; 10. Kazakhstan.
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11. Leela Samson; 12. Napoleon; 13. 'The Hindu Saregama M.S. Subbulakshmi Award'; 14. Sujatha; 15. Villivakkam; 16. Presidency; 17. Wellington; 18. Elambore River; 19. Queen Mary's College; 20. Ice House Police Station.
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