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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XXI No. 9, August 16-31, 2011
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

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

1. Which Asian country won the FIFA women's World Cup recently?

2. What three-decade old space mission ended officially on July 21st?

3. Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win which famous sporting event in Paris on July 24th?

4. Name the British singer, famous for the multiple Grammy winning album Back to Black, who was found dead recently.

5. Recently, the three reels of a 1923 film The White Shadow were discovered. It is thought to be which iconic filmmaker’s earliest surviving work?

6. Which F1 driver and former champion celebrated his 200th F1 GP by winning the Hungarian GP recently?

7. According to a UN report, which African country’s government was planning a massive attack against the African Union summit earlier this year?

8. Recently, in a big breakthrough in an ambitious experiment, scientists said they had got a glimpse of the ‘God Particle’. How is it officially known?

9. Who has been appointed India’s new Ambassador to the USA?

10. Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation Foundation, a Beijing-based organisation, has unveiled a $3 billion plan to build a “special development zone” in Nepal to transform which historic site?

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11. Name the engineer responsible for building both St. George’s Cathedral and St. Andrew’s Kirk in Chennai.

12. Since its founding in 1639, the city saw its first instance of which major epidemic only in 1905 and has been free from it since then?

13. What is the name of the Shiva deity at the famous Thirukazhukundram temple?

14. Which famous author of a religious work was born in Kunnattur, near Tiruneermalai?

15. Which place near Chennai is also known by the euphonic Sanskrit title of Nitya Kalyanapura?

16. Where is/was the Harris Bridge in Chennai?

17. What well-known institutions are on the greater part of where the Lawrence Asylum Press once stood in Chennai?

18. In today’s Chennai, how would the locals call what the Portuguese referred to as Monte Piqueno?

19. Apart from San Antonio, which other U.S. city is a Sister City of Madras/Chennai?

20. What was the first 70 mm Tamil film?

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1. Japan; 2. The Space Shuttle programme; 3. Tour de France; 4. Amy Winehouse; 5. Alfred Hitchcock; 6. Jenson Button; 7. Eritrea; 8. Higgs Boson; 9. Nirupama Rao; 10. Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam the Buddha.

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11. Major Thomas Fiott de Havilland; 12. Plague; 13. Vedagiriswarar; 14. Sekkilar of Periyapuranam fame; 15. Covelong; 16. The bridge over the Cooum from Komaleswaranpet to Mount Road; 17. Higginbotham's and Associated Printers; 18. Chinna Malai or Little Mount; 19. Denver; 20. Maaveeran.

 

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