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(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Why did Leslee Udwin make front page news in the first week of March?
2. What is the significance of the fossil ‘Ledi jaw’ discovered in Ethiopia recently?
3. Which tech giant has replaced AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index of stocks?
4. Dawn became the first spacecraft to enter a dwarf planet’s orbit to begin a 16-month exploration. Name the heavenly body.
5. Who is the latest holder of the Santosh Trophy, the symbol of supremacy in Indian football?
6. In which coveted area in London was a historic bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi unveiled on March 14th?
7. Name Maldives’ first democratically-elected President who was sentenced to a 13-year imprisonment by his country’s criminal cases court under the anti-terrorism laws.
8. Name the renowned fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series who passed away recently.
9. Which Asian legend became the first batsman to score four consecutive ODI centuries?
10. Who has topped the Forbes’ Global Billionaires 2015 annual list for the 16th time with a net worth of $79.2 billion?
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11. Where in Tamil Nadu is the Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary?
12. How many zones does the Greater Chennai Police Commissionerate have?
13. After whom has the community college in Puzhal Central Prison, established to offer vocational training courses, been named?
14. By what name was Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas, a former Governor of Madras, better known?
15. Who played the Mahatma in Kamal Haasan’s Hey Ram?
16. If Azim Jah was the first in 1867, then who is the eighth and present one?
17. Which famous studio was started by Thiruchengodu Ramalingam Sundaram?
18. Which is the birthplace of the iconic religious figure who propounded Vishishtdvaita, a sub school of Vedanta?
19. If one of the terminal points of the 472-km-long NH45 is Chennai, then what is the other?
20. Sarsaparilla juice is a common drink served by juice shops throughout the State. What is its Tamil name?
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1. She is the director of the controversial documentary India's Daughter; 2. Anthropologists are claiming it to be the oldest and from one of the very first humans; 3. Apple; 4. Ceres; 5. Services; 6. Parliament Square; 7. Mohamed Nasheed; 8. Terry Pratchett; 9. Kumar Sangakkara, 10. Bill Gates.
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11. Srivilliputhur; 12. Four; 13. Mahatma Gandhi; 14. Lord Willingdon; 15. Naseeruddin Shah; 16. Muhammad Abdul Ali, the Prince of Arcot; 17. Modern Theatres in Salem; 18. Sriperumbudur is the birthplace of Sri Ramanuja; 19. Theni, 20. Nannaari juice.
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