(Current Affairs questions are from the period May 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. On May 1st, IBM released A Boy and His Atom. What record has it set in the world of films?

2. Name the Indian whose death, after being attacked by fellow inmates in a Pakistani prison, created outrage recently.

3. Harvard scientists recently unveiled RoboBee. What is its claim to fame?

4. Which glamorous Oscar-winner recently revealed the stunning news that she underwent an elective double mastectomy due to her family history of breast cancer?

5. Which Amitabh Bachchan-starrer opened the Cannes Film Festival on May 15th?

6. Which Indian pharma company was recently fined $500 million by US authorities after it pleaded guilty to selling adulterated drugs in that country?

7. On May 15th, the instructions for the recipe for one of the most famous concoctions were sold on eBay for $15 million. Name the product.

8. Name Dan Brown's fourth book in his Robert Langdon series. It was released on May 14th and has zoomed to the top of the bestseller charts.

9. Who was recently elected for a third term as the Prime Minister of Pakistan?

10. What new index was launched by the BSE on May 1st based on the wide-measure S&P BSE 500 index?

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11. Give the family name of siblings Alexander and Peter who took over the business establishment George Gordon & Co in 1849 and renamed it after their family?

12. Smith Stocking & Co., which began operations in April 1913, is the city's oldest…?

13. Chandragupta Chanakya (1940) had which iconic Carnatic musician playing the queen?

14. Which institution has had its genesis in the institution that was started on the suggestion of Michael Topping, the earliest astronomer and geographical and marine surveyor in Madras, in 1794?

15. Who made his debut in films by writing the screenplay for the cinematic adaptation of his first play Rattha Paasam?

16. Which church was ministered by a succession of descendants of Cuddalore Arumugam who, in 1733, became the first Indian to be ordained a Protestant pastor?

17. Which theatre had the first 70 mm screen in Madras?

18. Name the first President of the Madras Pinjrapole whose statue under a canopy can be found in a corner of Napier's Park (or May Day Park)?

19. Which road in the Alwarpet area is named after an insurance company founded in 1943 by S. Parthasarathy Iyengar?

20. This graduate from the University of Madras in 1881 was awarded the Bharat Ratna after Independence and has a tower named after him in Chennai. Who was he?