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(Current Affairs questions are from the period January 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which community recently became the sixth to attain minority status in our country?
2. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who passed away recently, was the spiritual head of which community?
3. Name the probe which was ‘awoken’ recently from a hibernation of 31 months to ready for an unprecedented mission to orbit and dispatch a lander to the surface of a comet.
4. Which ‘robot-headed’ musical duo won the record of the year and album of the year at the annual Grammy Awards recently?
5. The RBI has decided to withdraw all currency notes issued prior to which year?
6. Name the two people who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan this year.
7. January 31st was the beginning of the Chinese New Year of the….
8. Name the Telugu cinema icon, a Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, who passed away recently.
9. Who was the Chief Guest at this year’s Republic Days Parade in New Delhi?
10. Who are the new Australian Open singles champions?
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11. Name the Scot, whose name is synonymous with a Madras business house of yore, and who started his career as a doctor with the Nawab of Carnatic in the late 18th Century.
12. Mayavaram Vedanayakam Pillai is considered the ‘Father of…’.
13. Which two legendary architects built two versions of the famous pavilion at the Madras Cricket Club that stood between 1866 and the 1980s?
14. Which American, whose name is synonymous with ‘being rich’, was instrumental in the WCC buying the Doveton House?
15. By what name is Muhammad Ismail, the first President of the Indian Union Muslim league, familiar to most of us?
16. Where could you recently come across Harry Potter, Nelson Mandela, Kavingar Vaali and Ma Po Si together in Chennai?
17. Jaya-Hindustan’s ‘Vimochanam’, released in 1940, commemorated which political decision taken by the then Premier of the Madras Presidency?
18. Which old centre of learning is located in ‘Conway Gardens’ on Poonamallee High Road?
19. What was the great contribution of R.M.S. Sundaram Iyer to render into posterity the work of saint-composer Thyagaraja?
20. Which Tamil eveninger was founded by Subbaraya Kamath in 1917?
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1. Jains; 2. Dawoodi Bohras; 3. Rosetta; 4. Daft Punk; 5. 2005; 6. Scientist R.A. Mashelkar and yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar; 7. Horse; 8. Akkineni Nageswara Rao; 9.Shizno Abe, Prime Minister of Japan; 10. Stanislas Wawrinka (men) and Li Na (women).
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11. John ‘Deaf’ Binny; 12. Tamil novel; 13. Robert Chisholm and Henry Irwin; 14. John H. Rockefeller; 15. ‘Quaid-e-Millat’; 16. At the Chennai Book Fair where there were lanes named after these luminaries; 17. Introduction of Prohibition by Rajaji; 18. St. George’s Orphanage and Higher Secondary School; 19. He single-handedly got the kritis of Thayagaraja carved in marbles at his samadhi in Tiruvaiyaru; 20. Deshabhaktan.
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