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(Current Affairs questions are from the period February 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the new India-born CEO of Microsoft.
2. On February 1st, which Indian city became the first to get a monorail service?
3. Name the acclaimed actor and Oscar winner for his performance in Capote found dead on February 2nd.
4. February 7th was the centenary of the debut of which iconic film character?
5. Why has star SMSS J031300. 36-670839.3, about 6000 light years from Earth, created a buzz in the world of astronomy?
6. Name the new President of the Indian Olympic Association?
7. Name the book by Wendy Doniger that has been banned by India as ‘blasphemy’.
8. Which 21-year-old athletics record was broken by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie in Donetsk on February 15th?
9. Which State has become the first and only one in the country to achieve 100 per cent sanitation?
10. Sushil Koirala is the new Prime Minister of which SAARC country?
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11. Which Chennai firm, known for its horological business, produced the 1939 mythological film Vishnu Leela?
12. Name the Englishman, known as the ‘Father of the Indian Army’, who raised the Madras Levies in Cuddalore in 1746.
13. Which Fort was the capital of the Madras Presidency between 1746 and 1752 when the French occupied Madras?
14. Which dam designed by Col. W.M. Ellis between1925 and 1934 was the largest dam in the world at the time of its completion?
15. What was started and named after his son by Raghunandan Saran in September 1948 at Ennore?
16. s.s. Gaelia and s.s. Lawoe were the first two ships of which famous maritime company founded in the late 1906?
17. The 202-year-old Asiatic Society of Madras is now known by what name?
18. What 3½ mile structure was conceived by the Company’s Chief Engineer John Call and built by Paul Benfield in the 1770s?
19. Which great literary figure’s samadhi is at Nattarasankottai in Sivaganga District?
20. Whom did Madras beat to win its first Ranji Trophy in 1955?
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1. Satya Nadella; 2. Mumbai; 3. Philip Seymour Hoffman; 4. Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp; 5. It is being described as the oldest star ever observed, with its age being 13.7 billion years; 6. N. Ramachandran; 7. The Hindus: An Alternative History; 8. Sergey Bubka's pole vault world record; 9. Sikkim; 10. Nepal.
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11. P. Orr & Sons through its subsidiary Orr’s Gramophones and Talkies Ltd.; 12. Stringer Lawrence; 13. Fort St. David in Cuddalore; 14. Mettur Dam; 15. Ashok Motors, the precursor to Ashok Leyland; 16. VOC’s Swadeshi Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.; 17. Madras Literary Society; 18. The Wall (of Wall Tax Road fame); 19. Kamban; 20. Holkar.
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