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(Current Affairs questions are from the period October 16th to 31st. Questio ns 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which high-profile athlete was recently sent to prison for five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013?
2. With whom did Sania Mirza win the season-ending, prestigious WTA Finals women’s doubles title?
3. On October 28th, which country formally withdrew from Afghanistan to end a 13-year war that it was a part of?
4. Name the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra who was sworn in on October 31st.
5. Name the India-born executive who has been appointed Product Chief of Google.
6. What phenomenal feat did Alan Eustace achieve on October 24th?
7. After whom is the UK Government’s new award to honour individuals who have worked to strengthen the UK-India relationship named?
8. Which Indian won a grand world billiards double at Leeds recently to take his tally of world titles to 12?
9. Beginning this year, what will the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31st be celebrated as?
10. What new electoral record did BJP’s Pritam Munde set in the Beed Lok Sabha constituency?
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11. What first did Capt. V. Sundaram achieve in 1936?
12. How is the urchavar referred to in the Parthasarathy Temple in Triplicane?
13. Who was sent by Mahatma Gandhi to Madras in 1918 as the first Hindi Pracharak?
14. By what simpler name is the Arulmigu Thiruvengadamudayan Venkatesa Perumal Thirukkoil in Sowcarpet popularly known?
15. Who founded the South Indian Liberal Federation in 1917?
16. Where in Chennai can you see a superbly sculpted statue of Kalaripayattu ‘chekavars’ in action?
17. What was established by an American, David McConaughy, in Madras in 1890?
18. There is a statue of first ICS Commissioner of the Madras Corporation at the Ripon Building. Name him.
19. Simple one. Which MTC depots in Chennai have the codes AM and PM?
20. The Indian National Congress has only one MP from the State in the Rajya Sabha. Name him.
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1. Oscar Pistorius; 2. Cara Black; 3. United Kingdom; 4. Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis; 5. Sundar Pichai; 6. He broke the world altitude record for highest free-fall parachute jump with a fall from 135908 feet; 7. Dadabhai Naoroji; 8. Pankaj Advani; 9. Rashtriya Ekta Divas (National Integration Day); 10. Highest victory margin in Lok Sabha elections (6,96,321 votes).
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11. He became the first Indian to get a commercial pilot’s licence from Madras; 12. Venkatakrishnan; 13. His son Devdas Gandhi; 14. Bairagi Matam (or Mutt); 15. Sir Pitty Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T.M. Nair; 16. Near the Gemini Flyover/US Consulate; 17. The YMCA; 18. Conran Smith; 19. Ambattur and Poonamallee; 20. Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan.
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