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VOL. XXIII No. 12, October 1-15, 2013
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period September 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. In the world of takeovers, what came out of Project Gold Medal at the beginning of September?

2. Which city is to host the 2020 Summer Olympics after a vote at the IOC’s 125th session held in Buenos Aires?

3. Sunset at Montmajour has now been confirmed as a large painting by which celebrated European artist?

4. Rochus Misch, who died recently aged 96, was the last surviving witness to which leader’s suicide in the 1940s?

5. Why was Germany’s Thomas Bach in the news recently?

6. Who was Leander Paes’s partner in his U.S. Open doubles triumph?

7. Which spacecraft, it is stated, recently exited the solar system and became the first man-made object to reach interstellar space?

8. How did Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Thakur make news on September 13th?

9. What is the value of the fund that leaders of the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have said they will set up to guard against financial shocks?

10. The Tatapani power project, touted as India’s first geo-thermal power project, is coming up in which State?

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11. Which crossing near Raj Bhavan was named after a century-old Swedish company that made watches and typewriters?

12. Name the hero, only the second after Dilip Kumar, to have won three consecutive Filmfare awards for ‘Best Actor’ – there is a statue of him on busy Nelson Manickam Road near Mehta Nagar.

13. What is the Tamil screen legend Joseph Panimayadasan Rodriguez better known as?

14. In which institution’s Coat of Arms will you see the words Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam?

15. Which theatre originally stood at the place where the AGS multiplex is now located?

16. If you were at the crossing which has the Gajendra Circle, where in the city are you?

17. Which child of a National Award-winning film couple released a work titled Contours of Leninism at the CPI(M) summit five years ago?

18. From which constituency was MGR elected as an MLA when he contested on a DMK ticket?

19. Which distilled beverage is mixed with cranberry and orange juice to make a cocktail called ‘Madras’?

20. Which future President of India was the Labour Minister from the first (1937) Madras Legislative Assembly cabinet?

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1. Microsoft agreeing to buy Nokia’s handset business for $7.2 billion; 2. Tokyo; 3. Vincent van Gogh; 4. Adolf Hitler; 5. He is the new President of the International Olympic Committee; 6. Radek Stepanek; 7. Voyager 1; 8. They were given death sentences for the brutal gang rape and murder of a medical student in December 2012; 9. $100bn (£65bn); 10. Chhattis­garh.

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11. Halda Junction; 12. Shobhan Babu; 13. J.P. Chandrababu; 14. University of Madras; 15. Royal; 16. Inside IIT; 17. Nandan, son of Mani Ratnam and Suhashini; 18. St. Thomas Mount; 19. Vodka; 20. V.V. Giri.

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