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VOL. XXV NO. 4, June 1-15, 2015
Quizzin' with Ram'nan

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

1. Name the daughter of Prince William, of the United Kingdom born on May 2nd. She is now the fourth in line to the British throne.

2. Who prevailed in the ‘Fight of the Century’ at Las Vegas on May 2nd?

3. Name the former CEO of IT giant Hewlett-Packard who recently became the first declared female candidate to seek the Republican Party's nomination for next year’s US Presidential election.

4. Rishi Sunak, who won from the Richmond constituency in the British Parliament elections, is the son-in-law of which legendary Indian entrepreneur?

5. Which artist’s painting Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $160 million?

6. Name the guitarist and singer, called the ‘King of the Blues’, who passed into history recently.

7. Name the ousted Egyptian President sentenced to death for his part in a mass jailbreak in 2011.

8. A type of fish called Opah, or Moonfish, was discovered recently. What first has it achieved?

9. The Union Government has given its assent for disinvestment of 10 per cent in which oil major? This could bring it Rs. 7932 crore.

10. In which Indian State capital is Google to build its second-biggest campus in the world and the first in Asia?

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11. Name the freedom fighter who climbed the 148-foot tall flagstaff in Fort St. George on January 26, 1932 and unfurled the Indian tricolour.

12. In Madras, Pully, Boatman, Trivatore and Ennore were all gates on theā€¦?

13. Which academic institution is housed in a campus called The Cloisters?

14. The book Four Score and More chronicles the history of which venerable institution in Chennai?

15. Following which reforms of 1919 did Madras become the first province of British India to implement a system of diarchy?

16. Rajagopala Tondaiman was the last ruler of which kingdom in the Madras Presidency?

17. Why is Fort St. David in Cuddalore named after the saint?

18. Which was the first residence, apart from Chepauk Palace, on the beachfront between Fort St. George and San Thome?

19. The Krishnagiri and Sathanur dams are built across which river?

20. Yellaikalai Vistharitha Yezhuthukalaignan is a documentary on which Jnanpith Award-winning writer?

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1. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge; 2. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.; 3. Carly Fiorina; 4. N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys; 5. Pablo Picasso; 6. B.B. King; 7. Mohammed Morsi; 8. It is the world's first fully warm-blooded fish; 9. Indian Oil Corporation; 10. Hyderabad.

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11. 'Arya' K. Bhashyam; 12. The Black Town Wall; 13. Stella Maris College; 14. Music Academy; 15. Montague-Chelmsford reforms; 16. Pudukkottai; 17. Because the Governor of Madras at the time of its purchase in 1690, Elihu Yale, was Welsh and named it after the patron Saint of Wales; 18. Capper House; 19. Thenpennai; 20. Jayakanthan.

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