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(ARCHIVE) VOL. XXIII NO. 3, May 16-31, 2013
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period April 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. By winning this season, Manchester United has taken its tally of Premier League crowns to…?

2. Against which team did Chris Gayle slam the fastest century in cricket history, reaching the triple figure in just 30 balls?

3. Which great leader and Nobel Laureate is to be featured on the UK £5 note?

4. In business, which tech-giant has recently initiated offering the largest ever non-bank bond, valued at $17 billion?

5. Who became Europe's youngest monarch, by becoming King of the Netherlands, on April 30th?

6. Name the newly elected Bangladesh counterpart of Pranab Mukherjhee.

7. Name the former Chief Justice of India, who headed the panel which came up with the anti-rape law and who, shortly afterwards, passed away.

8. An young Indian innovator Sumit Dagar has created a sensation in the communications world. What first-of-its kind product has he come up with?

9. Which Asian country was the largest recipient of remittances in the world, receiving $69 billion in 2012, according to the latest World Bank's Migration and Development Brief?

10. Dr. Ravuri Bharadwaja is the latest recipient of which prestigious award for his work 'Pakudu Rallu'?

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11. Name the 27-year-old Chennai-based environmentalist, a 2012 Rolex Young Laureate, whose NGO, Environmentalist Foundation of India, is committed to saving lakes.

12. Name the two types of hill bananas from Tamil Nadu that have been given Geographical Indicator status.

13. What was the original English name of the edifice now called Thenral?

14. Which imposing Indo-Saracenic structure on Triplicane High Road came up in 1931, thanks to the munificence of Rao Bahadur Vemuru Ranganatham Chetty?

15. What do the two initials expand to in the famous T. V. Sundaram Iyengar's name?

16. Which Shakespearean plays did Suguna Vilasa Sabha translate into Tamil and rework to suit an oriental setting, as Jwalita Ramanan and Amaladityan?

17. Name the oldest existing library in Chennai, started as an auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1812.

18. Which legendary furniture shop with a very English name was started by Chimato Alavandar Chetty in 1898?

19. Where can you see the Mermaid Pond in Chennai?

20. What had its inception in the halls of Blue House, the residence of its founder, Mani Thirumalachari, in Triplicane in 1900?

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1. 13; 2. Pune Warriors India; 3. Sir Winston Churchill; 4. Apple; 5. Willem-Alexander; 6. Abdul Hamid; 7. Justice J.S. Verma; 8. A Braille smartphone; 9. India!; 10. Jnanpith Award.

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11. Arun Krishnamurthy; 12. Virupakshi and Sirumalai hill varieties; 13. Brodie's Castle; 14. Sree Venkateswara Students' Hostel; 15. Thirukkurungudi Vengaramaswamy; 16. Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet; 17. Madras Literary Society; 18. Curzon's; 19. At the YWCA, 20; Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha.

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