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

1. Recently, the World Health Organisation declared the spread of which acute, viral disease, (which India has declared as eradicated) as ‘an international public health emergency’?

2. Which cinematic legend ­debuted on Twitter recently with the tweet “Salutation to the Lord. Vanakkam anaivarukkum! A big thank you to all my fans? ­Excited on this digital journey”?

3. An US investigator recently claimed to have found the wreck of the Santa Maria, the flagship of a famous explorer, near Haiti. Name the explorer.

4. Which Oscar-winner is, starring as the protagonist in Grace of Monaco which kick started this year’s Cannes film festival?

5. Name India’s own payment gateway, developed by the National Payments Corporation of India, that was launched recently to compete with networks such as Visa and Mastercard.

6. The Supreme Court has given permission to Tamil Nadu, rejecting the objections raised by Kerala, to raise the height of the 116-year-old Mullaiperiyar Dam by how many feet?

7. Name India’s first indigenous air-to-air Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile, that was tested from a Sukhoi-30MKI, recently.

8. Who is the next Army chief?

9. Which India-born siblings have emerged as the richest in the UK with 11.9 billion GBP?

10. Scientists recently announced that a new element named Ununseptium is about to join the periodic table. What is the proton number of the new element?

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11. By what more famous name is Madras-born singer Arnold George Dorsey known to fans around the world?

12. What do the initials TT stand for in the name of the illustrious TTK and his family members?

13. What first in Tamil cinema does the 1985-release Annai Bhoomi claim to have?

14. Which place near Chennai Central gets its name for ‘a bank sloping down from a fort which exposes attackers to the defenders' missiles’?

15. The first school in Madras was a little ‘public school for children, several of whom are English’, started in a priest’s house in White Town. Name the priest.

16. According to Rudyard Kipl­ing, in The Song of the Cities, who kissed Madras on her mouth, eyes and brow?

17. Which is the latest working station added to the list of MRTS stations?

18. Name the MPs from the three Chennai constituencies.

19. Continuing known the previous question, name the only two constituencies in the State that the AIADMK did not win.

20. In the days of the Madras Presidency, how many fanams would two rupees get you?