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

1. Which Indian auto major is going to launch XUV 500, its first global SUV model?

2. Name the former England captain whose comparison of Indian cricketers to ‘donkeys’ (because of their fielding) led to an unnecessary controversy.

3. According to a recent filing, who is the richest minister in the present Union Cabinet, having total family assets of over Rs. 250 crore?

4. Name the Indian film director, known for a range of films like the evocative Kamala to the provocative Provoked, who passed away recently.

5. What first in the British political set-up has Indarjit Singh, director of the Network of Sikh Organisations, achieved?

6. Name the celebrated sculptor of modern-day wonders, like the Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanniyakumari and Valluvar Kottam in Chennai, who passed away recently.

7. Which former India cricket captain’s son was killed after a high-speed motorcycle crash in Hyderabad?

8. Which tournament was won recently by India, beating Pakistan, at Ordos in China?

9. Name the new U.S. Open tennis champions.

10. What is the memorial to the victims of 9/11, at the WTC site, that opened recently, called?

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11. Duarte Barbosa, who is said to have written about the early 16th Century San Thome and its neighbourhood, was the brother-in-law of which world-famous explorer?

12. Which then-future king laid the foundation stone for the Mughal-style VTI building (now part of the museum) when he came here in early part of the 20th Century?

13. Harris Bridge over the Cooum connects Mount Road and …?

14. At which present-day traffic junction in Chennai did a statue of Genreal Neill of the ‘Mutiny’ fame once stand?

15. On the death of which Nawab of Carnatic in 1855 were all the properties owned by him at Chepauk taken over by the then government and sold off by public auction?

16. If the latest census of Chennai (or Madras) was in 2011, when was the first one (to be followed by others on a regular basis)?

17. Which educational institution of repute was established by Governor Sir Frederick Adam in 1835?

18. What came into being after the joint editors of The Madras Times, Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish, had a quarrel with the paper’s proprietor?

19. In Madras Presidency, one pagoda was made up of 3360….?

20. Which university was the first in Madras Presidency to have hostel facility?