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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XXI No. 7, July 16-31, 2011
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period June 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. How did Ayman al-Zawahiri make news on June 16th?

2. Name the Northern Ireland golfer who became the youngest since Bobby Jones in 1923 to win the U.S. Open, one of the four Majors, recently.

3. According to experts, which famous artist’s self-portrait, displayed in an eponymous museum in Amsterdam, is actually a depiction of his brother Theo?

4. J.K. Rowling’s new project, an interactive website, launched on June 23rd, is called…?

5. Which (now) common online activity did Pope Benedict XVI use to launch a new Vatican website on June 29th?

6. Christine Lagarde is the new head of which global organisation ­following her predecessor’s forced departure over a sexual assault ­controversy?

7. Name the (now) invite-only social networking service operated by Google Inc., launched on June 28th.

8. Which very senior minister in the Union Cabinet confirmed that he suspected his ministry offices were bugged and had sought a secret inquiry into the alleged incidents?

9. Who is Michael Nobbs in the Indian sports scenario?

10. India’s campaign to get which place to be declared a Unesco World Heritage Site received a setback, with the UN committee postponing the decision to 2012?

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11. In which year was the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which Madras was restored to the English, signed?

12. Which institution in Triplicane was founded by Janab Syed Azmathullah Sahib in 1927?

13. What is the contribution of the artist Prof. R. Krishna Rao to Tamil Nadu’s identity?

14. Name the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the present Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

15. Who was described in a citation awarded by UNESCO as ‘the prophet of the new age, the Socrates of South East Asia’?

16. Which structure in Tamil Nadu, inaugurated on January 1, 2000, is made up of 3681 stone blocks weighing between 3 and 8 tons each?

17. Where in Madras was Biden House used as a harbour-masters’s residence?

18. Fill in the blank: French Capuchin priest, Father Ephraim de Nevers, is considered to have started in his own house in White Town, very soon after Madras came into being, the first ____.

19. Royapettah House is now better known as…?

20. Which major institution in Madras was inaugurated on September 29, 1688?

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1. He was elected the leader of al-Qaeda, succeeding Osama bin Laden; 2. Rory McIlroy; 3. Vincent Van Gogh; 4. Pottermore; 5. Tweeting, the first by a Pope; 6. International Monetary Fund; 7. Google+; 8. Pranab Mukherjee; 9. The new coach of Indian men's hockey team; 10. The Western Ghats.

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11. 1748; 12. The hand-written The Musalman newspaper; 13. He designed the State emblem; 14. D. Jayakumar and P. Dhanapal; 15. Periyar; 16. The Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanniyakumari; 17. Royapuram; 18. Western-type school; 19. Amir Mahal; 20. The Corporation of Madras.

 

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