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(Current Affairs questions are from the period April 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. In which neighbouring country of India did private newspapers come back into circulation after a gap of 49 years?
2. On April 3rd, President Pranab Mukherjee signed the Bill which gives India a strong anti-rape law. What is the name of the Bill?
3. What is so special about the material Carbon Aerogel, produced by scientists at China’s Zhejiang University and announced on April 3rd?
4. Name the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the only woman to hold the post, who passed away on April 8th.
5. Name the TV series in which Sachin Tendulkar is to make his debut in an animated avatar.
6. Who is the latest recipient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
7. The Supreme Court has allowed the translocation of Asiatic lions from Gujarat’s Gir Forest to which sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh?
8. At which famous annual sporting event in the USA did a terrorist attack leave three dead and more than 280 injured?
9. Name the famed screen writer, one time resident of India and the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Booker Prize, who died recently.
10. Which eminent non-filmy Briton received a BAFTA recently and was called 'the most memorable Bond girl yet?
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11. What World Championship, with one of its players having Chennai connections, is to be held in the city between November 6th and 26th?
12. On April 15th, the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted an unanimous resolution that the name of the modernised domestic terminal II at Chennai Airport be named after which former Chief Minister?
13. After whom are the docks of Chennai Harbour named?
14. Name the two species of dinosaurs that stand tall outside the Children's Museum in Egmore.
15. Lord Connemara, once Governor of Madras, was the son-in-law of which controversial Viceroy of India?
16. What is the modern, corrupted name of Deodi Sardar-ul-mulk Dilawar Jung Bahadur found in Mylapore?
17. Which educational institution in Chennai began in 1912 under the name Madras Trades School?
18. Connect the Chennai Collectorate and the first advocate from the fisherman community (who was also a founding member of TUCS).
19. Which of the five Taluks in Chennai District has the most number of villages in it?
20. What are TANTRANSCO and TANGEDCO?
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1. Myanmar; 2. Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013; 3. With a density of only 0.16 mg/cubic centimetre, it is the world's lightest substance with a density only one-sixth of that of air; 4. Margaret Thatcher; 5. Master Blasters; 6. Pran; 7. Kuno Sanctuary; 8. Boston Marathon; 9. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; 10. Queen Elizabeth II.
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11. FIDE World Chess Championship; 12. M.G. Ramachandran; 13. B.R. Ambdekar, Jawaharlal Nehru and Subramania Bharathi; 14. Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Stegosaurus; 15. Lord Dalhousie; 16. Devadi Street; 17. Central Polytechnic (CPT); 18. The Chennai Collectorate is housed in the M. Singaravelar Maligai named after the lawyer; 19. Mambalam-Guindy (15 villages); 20. The two subsidiary companies of the holding company TNEB Limited.
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