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Vol. XXV No. 15, November 16-30, 2015
Quizzin with Ramanan
(Current Affairs questions are from the period October 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. What policy, introduced in 1978, did China abandon in end October to address the challenge of unnatural negative demographics?
2. The foundation stone for which planned, waterfront capital city was laid by the Prime Minister on October 22nd?
3. How did Nepal’s Bidhya Devi Bhandari make news recently?
4. Between which two places will India’s first AC double-decker Shatabdi train soon run?
5. Which controversial African President has been honoured with this year’s Confucius Peace Prize, dubbed as the Chinese equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize?
6. Which Fortune 500 company, co-founded by Indian-origin entrepreneur Sanjay Mehrotra, is to be bought by Western Digital Corporation for $19 billion?
7. Young Indian mountaineers Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar recently became the first people to climb a 6180m high unnamed peak near Bara-Sigri, the second longest glacier in Himalaya. After whom did they name the peak?
8. Which Indian was conferred with the respected Harvard University’s ‘2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award’?
9. Which Indian business conglomerate has entered the online retail space with the online fashion store Abof.com?
10. Which ‘techpreneur’, noted for ushering in the telecom revolution in India in the 1980s, released his autobiography, Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India, recently?
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11. Who is the artist of the The Last Supper painting in St. Mary’s Church in Fort St. George?
12. Which former Union Minister from the State is behind Ezhuthu, an initiative to promote Tamil literature?
13. Name the hillock on Pamban island from where Hanuman is set to have taken off for Lanka.
14. Which work is considered the sequel to Kalki’s Sivagamiyin Sapatham?
15. Which famous apparel brand was started by the RKT Bros. at Thirucharai in 1900?
16. T.R. Sundaram’s Padma Jothi made in the mid-1930s, was the first Tamil film to feature what cinematic innovation?
17. Apart from the dates of the two great wars, what word (in Tamil) can you find on the commemorative pillar in the War Memorial near the Port Trust?
18. What is the Tamil name for the ‘Sinistral Turbinella Pyrum’?
19. Which is the second oldest school in Chennai, set to score a triple century next year?
20. Which engineering firm, synonymous with Pallavaram, was set up by Robert Bruce, later Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in 1957?
1. One Child policy; 2. Amaravati, the proposed capital of AP; 3. She is the first woman and the country’s second President; 4. Mumbai and Goa; 5. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe; 6. SanDisk; 7. The late President Abdul Kalam; 8. Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi; 9. Aditya Birla Group; 10. Sam Pitroda.
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11. George Willison; 12. P. Chidambaram; 13. Mt. Gandhamadana; 14. Parthiban Kanavu; 15. Rasi Silks; 16. Animation; 17. Victory; 18. Valampuri Chank; 19. St. Paul’s; 20. English Electric.
