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(Current Affairs questions are from the period September 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the new Chief Justice of India.
2. What does the logo launched on the occasion of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign, to make India a manufacturing hub, feature?
3. Name the Hindi feature film that has been selected as India’s official entry to the 2015 Oscars’ Awards.
4. Name the elite club of three that India joined by successfully putting ‘Mangalyaan’ around Mars on September 24th?
5. The largest IPO in history happened on September 18th with a Chinese giant listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Name the firm.
6. Ashraf Ghani is the new President of which embattled SAARC nation after the country’s first democratic transfer of power?
7. Which former Premier did Narendra Modi emulate by addressing the UN General Assembly in Hindi?
8. After whom is the Antyodaya Yojana, the rural and urban skills development programme, laun ched on September 25th, named?
9. Which global rganization recently issued ‘Maharaja Bonds’ worth $100 million to help develop infrastructure for the domestic capital markets in India?
10. In which southern India city were National Academy for Athletics and National Golf Academy recently inaugurated?
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11. Who was Aranganathan after whom the subway in Saidapet is named?
12. What did the legislature building, that was inaugurated in May 1952 by Governor Sri Praka sam, first metamorphose into?
13. Which notorious character from Madras’ history features in Sir Walter Scott’s The Surgeon’s Dau gh ter?
14. The 1956 film Vana Ratham saw the debut in Tamil films of which Bharat Ratna awardee?
15. Name the two Chennai girls who recently made history by becoming the first Indian women to win a sailing medal at the Asian Games?
16. Name the 91-year-old Gan dhian, the chairman of the Sakthi Group and three-time MLA, who passed away on October 2nd.
17. Which legendary son-of-the soil’s latest literary endeavour is titled My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions?
18. September 22nd saw the centenary of which incident from WW I I that had an impact on Madras life and gave a word to Madras-bha shai?
19. Which popular chain was started by N.K. Mahadeva Iyer in 1948?
20. On which temple’s well can you see a stone inscription that mentions how the then Collector of Madras, Francis Ellis, dug 27 wells in 1818 to overcome acute drought?
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1. Justice H.L. Dattu; 2. A lion made of gears; 3. Liar’s Dice; 4. USA, China and Europe; 5. Alibaba Group; 6. Afghanistan; 7. Atal Behari Vajpayee; 8. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya; 9. International Finance Corporation; 10. Thiruvananthapuram.
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11. He was a ‘martyr’ who self- immolated in protest against Hindi imposition in 1965; 12. It became the Kalaivanar Arangam; 13. Avadhanam Paupiah; 14. Lata Mangeshkar; 15. Varsha Gautam and Aishwarya Nedun che zhiyan; 16. ‘Pollachi’ Maha lingam; 17. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; 18. The German ship Emden shelled the city; 19. Sri Krishna Sweets; 20. Periya Palaiath amman temple in Roya pet tah.
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