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(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Off whose bowling did Sachin Tendulkar get his 100th international century on March 16th?
2. In which European capital was the world's largest Titanic attraction opened recently as a centennial tribute to the legendary ship?
3. Name the Railway Minister, forced to resign by his party's leadership because he had raised the fares in the annual budget.
4. Name the vessel in which James Cameron made his solo descent to the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth.
5. According to the recent controversial revelation by the COAS, Gen. V.K. Singh, how much, and for what purpose, was he offered a bribe?
6. The high-profile BRICS summit was held in New Delhi at the end of March. Which countries comprise BRICS?
7. Jim Yong Kim has been nominated by the U.S. President Barack Obama to head which global financial organisation?
8. Name the landlocked African country, famous for the place called Timbuktu, that saw a coup on March 22nd-23rd.
9. Who won the first race of the 2012 Formula One season on March 18th in Australia?
10. According to recently released data, India's poverty level has fallen sharply from 37.2% in 2004-05. What is the figure now?
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11. Lt. Col. Douglas Muir Reid is considered the prime mover behind which institution in Fort St. George?
12. Championing Enterprise by historian Sriram V. is a book to commemorate the 175th anniversary of which 'commercial/financial' body?
13. What were Guzili Paattu?
14. What noble service has the family of Sabhapati Achari been rendering for the last 152 years in Mylapore during the Arupathu Moovar festival?
15. Name the first Indian to get a beach-fronted statue on the Marina.
16. Which film classic features the famous dialogue, uttered by the queen-mother, Poruthathu podhum, pongi ezhu, maganey?
17. 'Kondalathi' and 'Semparundhu' are the Tamil names for which birds?
18. Which European clergyman is considered the first to translate and print the New Testament in Tamil?
19. Name the Englishman who wrote the four-volume Vestiges of Old Madras in 1913, considered a fantastic reference for Madras-philes.
20. In terms of size/area, where does Tamil Nadu rank among the States of India?
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1. Shakib Al Hasan; 2. Belfast; 3. Dinesh Trivedi of TMC; 4. Deepsea Challenger; 5. Rs. 14 crore for clearing a 'sub-standard' procurement order of trucks; 6. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; 7. The World Bank; 8. Mali; 9. Jenson Button; 10. 29.8% of its population.
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11. The Fort Museum; 12. Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry; 13. Songs printed on cheap paper and distributed at street corners in Madras for people to hum; 14. Running a Tanneer Pandal; 15. V. Krishnaswami Iyer; 16. Manohara; 17. Hoopoe and the Brahminy Kite; 18. Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg; 19. Col. Henry Davison Love; 20. Eleventh.
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