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VOL. XXIII NO. 19, JANUARY 16-31, 2014
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 16-31, 2013. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Name the Russian general known for designing the AK-47 rifle who passed away recently. s

2. Name the new national singles badminton champions.

3. Why was the senior bureaucrat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in the news recently?

4. Name the bowler who, during the South Africa tour, became the fourth Indian to scalp. 300 Test wickets?

5. Name the unmanned space observatory of the European Space Agency that was launched recently to compile a 3D space catalogue of approximately 1 billion astronomical objects.

6. Which legend has been selected for the BCCI’s prestigious Col. C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for 2013?

7. Name the head of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore who passed away recently.

8. Unbreakable, released recently, is the autobiography of which Indian Olympic medallist?

9. On December 31, 2013, which country became the 18th EU member state to adopt the euro?

10. Name the celebrated World War II code-breaker who has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after he took his own life following a conviction for homosexual indulgence.

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11. Name the Tamil work and the writer honoured with the Sahitya Akademi award.

12. Name the playwright of Ratthakkanneer, who passed away recently. The play was successfully made into a film starring M.R. Radha.

13. Where was the statue of Maharaja Balarama Varma, now in Gandhi Nagar, originally installed?

14. The Basin Bridge power station was modernised by which business entity before it was commissioned in 1998?

15. Of which common herbivore is there a variant called ‘Madras Red’?

16. Wimco Nagar is named after a brand at present belonging to which Indian business giant?

17. Which political party’s weekly journal is called Sangoli?

18. Which sabha in Chennai was founded in 1929 by A.K. Ramachandra Iyer, M. Loganatha Mudaliar and K. Natesa Iyer?

19. Which magnificent Chennai edifice, designed by G.S.T. Harris, spans an area of 81x41m and encompasses a floor space of 10,000 square metres over three floors?

20. Which detective’s spouse is Indra and has servants called Kathrikai and Manickam?

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1. Mikhail Kalashnikov; 2. Kidambi Srikanth and P.V. Sindhu; 3. He is the new Ambassador to the USA; 4. Zaheer Khan; 5. ‘Gaia’; 6. Kapil Dev; 7. Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma; 8. M.C. Mary Kom; 9. Latvia; 10. Alan Turing.

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11. Joe D Cruz’s Korkai; 12. Tiruvarur Thangarasu; 13. At the Travancore Maharaja Park in Esplanade; 14. GMR; 15. Goat; 16. ITC; 17. Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam; 18. R.R. Sabha in Mylapore; 19. Ripon Building; 20. Shankarlal.

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