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

1. Which team won the inaugural Indian Badminton League?

2. Recently scientists discovered the world’s longest canyon (about 800 km long) beneath the ice sheet of which autonomous European territory?

3. Name one of India’s most wanted men, the alleged head of the Indian Mujahideen terrorist group, who was arrested recently.

4. Around which famous natural park in the USA did a fire, more than the size of Chicago, create havoc recently?

5. Who is the latest recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the nation’s highest individual sporting honour for a season?

6. Name the country’s first Indian defence satellite that was launched successfully by an Ariane 5 Rocket from the Kourou Spaceport of French Guiana.

7. What is the name of the newest element added to the Periodic Table recently?

8. What prestigious gallantry award was given posthumously to Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds inspector KLVSSNV Prasad Babu recently?

9. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US recently created the most precise clock of the world (ticking rate variation of less than two parts in one quintillion) using which element?

10. Name the initiative of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, recently launched to address the issue of violence in all its forms against women, through a mass movement.

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11. Tyagaraja’s composition ‘Darini Telusukonti’ is about which Chennai temple goddess?

12. India cricketers Sadagopan Ramesh, T. Kumaran, Hemang Badani and Sridharan Sriram have all played for which Mylapore school?

13. What establishment was started by Raja D.V. Appa Rao at Luz in the late 1940s?

14. Which ‘public service’ started recently in the metropolis has the tagline ‘Chennaiyin Gouravam’?

15. Name the Hakim who was the first Indian to have acted Governor of Madras (in 1934).

16. Whose imposing statue can you see at the intersection of the erstwhile Chamiers Road and Mount Road?

17. What is the biggest example of a ‘four leaf clover’ structure in Chennai?

18. One of the famous mobile numbers, seen all over the city walls, was 9841072571. Who would have answered the call if you dialled the number?

19. Which film gave Ajith Kumar the nickname ‘Thala’?

20. Which locality of Chennai has a 50-year-old SSI estate that is considered the biggest in South Asia?