(Current Affairs questions are from the period July 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. How did an Army officer Dalbir Singh make news on July 31st?

2. Name the two Indian woman weightlifters who started the gold rush for India at the Commonwealth Games on July 24th.

3. Internationally July 29th was observed to celebrate which endangered majestic animal of which there are only 1706 (2010 census) left in the country?

4. One Life is Not Enough is the autobiography of which former diplomat and External Affairs Minister that has created big news for its views on the Gandhis.

5. Which Tata Group company, on July 23rd, became the first Indian company to achieve a market capitalisation of Rs. 5 lakh crore?

6. How did the Ukrainian village of Grabovo make world headlines on July 17th?

7. Which legend became only the second Indian, after Kapil Dev, and the 47th member of the prestigious Laureus World Sports Academy?

8. Where in Brazil was the latest BRICS summit held, where the member-nations agreed to create a $100 billion development bank and emergency reserve fund?

9. Italian Vincenzo Nibali won the 101st edition of which very prestigious Europe-based sporting competition on July 29th?

10. Which home-grown e-retailer recently announced that it has raised funds worth $1 billion (over Rs.6,000 crore), the largest-ever by an Indian e-commerce firm?

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11. In Chennai, what now stands on what was once Osborne House, home of the Rajahs of Venkatagiri?

12. Who was the co-founder of Vidya Mandir, Vivekananda College and MIT?

13. Founded in the 1960s, National Cafe on Mount Road and Cafe Zum Zum on Second Line Beach are examples of which distinct type of tea stalls?

14. What ‘sound’ institution, now on Kamarajar Salai, was inaugurated on June 16, 1938 on Marshall’s Road by Rajaji, the then Premier of Madras Presidency?

15. The township of Madras is said to have effectively been born on March 1, 1640. Why?

16. What do the initials in the street name T.P. Koil Street in Triplicane expand to?

17. Which institution on Poonamalle High Road was founded by Alexander Hunter, a surgeon, in 1850?

18. What was established by one Kanthasamy Mudaliar in 1905 on Bazaar Street in Mylapore?

19. For what profession was/is Chengam Bazaar (in)famous?

20. In 1840, which popular Dickensian work got an anonymous sequel in The Lighthouse, a Madras-based publication?