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(Current Affairs questions are from the period February 16th to 29th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. On February 17th, Christian Wulff resigned over a corruption scandal. Of which European country was he President?
2. How did India's George Alencherry make news recently?
3. This film won five Oscars, including Best Picture, this year. What was special about it?
4. How did India create medical history on February 25th?
5. Sachin Tendulkar recently became the first overseas cricketer to get an honorary life membership of which famous Australian cricket ground?
6. According to Forbes, which is the world's wealthiest nation?
7. Name the new publication launched by Rupert Murdoch to replace the News of the World.
8. Which Asian country has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for much-needed food aid?
9. What botanical feat did Russian scientists achieve from a find in the banks of Siberia's Kolmya River?
10. Which iconic freedom fighter, who was hanged at the age of 23, is to be commemorated on five rupee coins?
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11. After whom is the ten-storied edifice within Fort St. George, housing the offices of many Ministers and Secretaries, named?
12. Which prominent Chennai is a copy of Queen Victoria's Osborne House in the Isle of Wight?
13. Which 135-year-old centre of learning had its genesis in the Madras General Assembly School and the Central Institution?
14. Which park in Madras was named after the Corporation engineer of the Madras responsible for constructing Moore Market?
15. In the context of Madras and public gatherings, what connects Rattan, Flower, Kalamandapam, Chengam and other such places?
16. T'Nagar, when conceived, was expected to be within four arterial roads. Two were Mount Road and Usman Road. Name the other two.
17. Paul Benfield is said to have built the first Indo-Saracenic building in Madras. Which one?
18. In the precincts of which famous Chennai institution was the short-lived Society for the Preservation of Carnatic Music formed in 1952?
19. Who is the only dancer to receive the 'Sangita Kalanidhi' accolade?
20. Which globally famous institution synonymous with the area/road came up on a plot of land gifted by Akul Kondiah Chettiar on Brodie's Road (a road now renamed to commemorate the institution)?
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Germany; 2. He has been made a Cardinal by the Pope and is a member of the College of Cardinals that elects the Pope; 3. The Artist, a silent film; 4. WHO removed it from the list of polio-endemic countries; 5. Sydney; 6. Qatar; 7. The Sun on Sunday; 8. North Korea; 9. They regenerated a plant from the fruit of the narrow-leafed campion that died 32,000 years ago; 10. Bhagat Singh.
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11. Namakkal Kavignar (V. Ramalingam Pillai); 12. Amir Mahal; 13. Madras Christian College; 14. Loane Park named after Samuel Joshua Loane and now known as Sriramulu Naidu Park; 15. Bazaars or Markets; 16. Bazullah Road and Burkit Road; 17. Chepauk Palace; 18. The Hindu; 19. Balasaraswathi; 20. The Ramakrishna Mutt.
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