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(Current Affairs questions are from the period October 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace this year?
2. Which World Bank Group institution has announced the launch of a $1 billion offshore rupee bond programme to strengthen India’s capital markets and attract greater foreign investment?
3. Who launched the world’s first curved screen smartphone recently?
4. Which African nation, which is enclosed by Senegal, has withdrawn from the Commonwealth of Nations?
5. With which cyber-giant has the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) signed an agreement to create 360 degree online imagery of 100 of India’s most important heritage sites?
6. Name the writer of such thrillers like The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games who passed away recently.
7. The siblings Bard and Vegard Ylvisaker are the comedy duo behind which recent YouTube sensation?
8. Ali Zeidan, whose kidnap and release a few hours later created headlines, is the Prime Minister of which embattled African country?
9. Janet L. Yellen is President Obama’s choice to chair which important institution in the US?
10. For her work The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of which prestigious literary award?
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11. What is the original name of Illaippari Madha Kovil on St. Mary’s Road?
12. Which institution in Purasawalkam, that started as ‘finishing school’ for Indian girls, is celebrating its centenary this year?
13. What is the ‘parking spot’ for private yachts and tugs in Chennai port called?
14. Which Chennai-based Padma Vibhushan awardee has been chosen for the 2012 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration?
15. Name the two awards given under Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil.
16. According to one version, which bustling locality’s name in Chennai is believed to be a corruption of ‘Maha bilwa kshetram’?
17. Which street in Alwarpet is named after the two eminent residents of big houses called Sadr Gardens and Champaka Vilas that stood there?
18. What is the screen name of the popular actor Jamshad Cethirakath?
19. What is the common name coined in Tamil for a browser used to surf the Net?
20. Which bridge on the Cooum was once named after Willingdon and St. George?
Click here to view answers for the quiz
1. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; 2. International Finance Corporation; 3. Samsung with its Galaxy Round; 4. The Gambia; 5. Google; 6. Tom Clancy; 7. The viral super hit The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?); 8. Libya;
9. Federal Reserve; 10.The Man Booker Prize.
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11.Descanco Church; 12. CSI Ewart Marticulation HSS; 13. Timber Pond; 14. M.S. Swaminathan, 15. Tolkappiyar Award and Kural Pitam Award; 16. Mambalam; 17. Bashyam Basheer Ahmed Street, named after the legal luminaries Bashyam Iyengar and Basheer Ahmed; 18. Arya; 19. Ulavi; 20. Periyar bridge on Mount Road.
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