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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XXI No. 4, June 16-30, 2011
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

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

1. Name the highly-decorated EPL footballer whose injunction over an alleged affair caused a storm on Twitter.

2. Name the former head of IMF and a French Presidential hopeful who was arrested in New York on charges of attacking and attempting to rape a hotel maid.

3.For which coveted literary award was the American novelist Philip Roth chosen on May 18th?

4. Name the highest-rated talk show in American TV history with a world-famous host that came to an end on May 25th after 25 seasons and 4,561 episodes.

5. Which team won the UEFA Champions League in London on May 28th?

6. In a major decision, which European nation has decided to end all nuclear power by 2022?

7. According to a WHO statement on May 31st, which common activity in today’s communication world can increase possible cancer risk?

8. The centenary of the launch of possibly the most iconic vessel to have set sail was observed in Belfast on May 31st. Name the tragically-famous vessel.

9. Grimsvotn is creating news just as something similar to it had done last year in its native country by going into action recently. What is Grimsvotn?

10. According to the UN, which is the second disease, after smallpox, to have been eliminated worldwide?

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11. Who was voted Player of the Match in the IPL final played at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on May 28th?

12. Which area in Chennai gets its name from the Tamil name for Peter?

13. The building on Broadway which housed Madras’ first cinema is the home of a 111-year-old institution that did much for the city’s stage performances. Name it.

14. What do the initials RSRM in Government RSRM Lying-In Hospital stand for?

15. Who are the Leader of the House and the Leader of Opposition in the present Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly?

16. Which inland district has the Vellar River in the north and the Kollidam River in the south?

17. What was founded in Vaisakha Sukla Purnima of the year Siddharthi with Adi Sankara as the first Acharya?

18. Which district on the Bay of Bengal was carved by bifurcating the composite Thanjavur District in mid-October 1991?

19. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is the only extant Tamil Buddhist literary work?

20. Which famous librarian used the collection of the University of Madras for the creation of Colon Classification?

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1. Manchester United's Ryan Giggs; 2. Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 3. The Man Booker International Prize; 4. The Oprah Winfrey Show; 5. FC Barcelona; 6. Germany; 7. Cell phone use; 8. RMS Titanic; 9. It is a volcano that has erupted in Iceland spewing ash into the atmosphere; 10. Rinderpest or cattle plague.

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11. Murali Vijay; 12. Royapuram from Rayappar; 13. Sukrutha Lakshmi Vilasa Sabha; 14. Rajah (Sir) Savalai Rama­swamy Mudaliar; 15. O. Panneer­selvam and Vijaykanth respectively; 16. Ari­yalur; 17. Kamakoti Peetha at Kanchi; 18. Nagapattinam; 19. Manimekalai (The Girdle of Gems); 20. S.R. Ranganathan.

 

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