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Vol. XXVI No. 01, April 16-30, 2016
Quizzin with Ramanan
(Current Affairs questions are from the period March 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Asia’s largest and first of its kind optical telescope ARIES was unveiled at Devasthal in Uttarakhand recently. The A in the acronym ARIES stands for which scientist-mathematician?
2. Htin Kyaw is the first elected civilian (non-military) President of which of India’s neighbours that was had 53 years of military rule?
3. Which Russian Grand Master has earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world title after winning the FIDE World Chess Candidates tournament in Moscow recently?
4. Which number has been approved by the Telecom Commission as the single emergency number for India, similar to 911 (USA) and 999 (UK)?
5. Who are the latest winners of the National Awards for Best Actor and Actress?
6. Name India’s first indigenous rotavirus vaccine, to combat infant mortality due to diarrhoea, launched by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently.
7. Which Chief Minister is the sole Indian in the list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders ranked by Fortune magazine?
8. Name the Dutch football legend, a pioneering exponent of ‘Total Football’, who lost his battle with cancer recently.
9. Which reserve in Tamil Nadu-Kerala has become the 10th Indian biosphere Reserve to be included in UNESCO’s World Network of biosphere Reserves?
10. Name the British mathematician famous for solving Fermat’s Last Theorem, who is the winner of the prestigious 2016 Abel Prize.
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11. Who is this resident of Chennai who has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, who has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for singing the most number of songs in Indian languages?
12. Which film has taken the honours for Best Feature Film in Tamil, Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing in the recently-announced National Film Awards?
13. Of the three main docks in Chennai Port, two are named after persons who have been conferred with Bharat Ratna. Name both.
14. What happened to the Madras Sailing Club, founded by Sir Francis Spring, in June 1933?
15. Dhananjayan’s A Creator with Midas Touch is a documentary on which veteran screenwriter and producer?
16. Which Sahitya Akademi award winning Tamil writer has said that his recently-released third novel, Asthinapuram would be his last?
17. Which century-old luxury hotel in Chennai has rooms named Wallajah, Arcot and Binny?
18. What first, in terms of governance of Madras, did Sir Thiruvalayangudi Vijayaraghavacharya achieve 100 years ago?
19. Al. M. Muthukaruppan Chettiar of Devakottai was in 1963 the first-ever winner of which coveted annual trophy?
20. Muhammed Abdul Ali is the eighth and present one. What is his title?
1. Aryabhatta; 2. Myanmar; 3. Sergey Karjakin; 4. 112; 5. Amitabh Bachchan (Piku) and Kangana Ranaut (Tanu Weds Manu Returns); 6. Rotavac; 7. Arvind Kejriwal; 8. Johan Cruyff; 9. Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve; 10. Andrew Wiles.
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11. P. Susheela; 12. Visaranai; 13. Jawahar (after Pandit Nehru) and Ambedkar; 14. It became the Royal Madras Yacht Club; 15. Panchu Arunachalam; 16. R.N. Joe D’Cruz; 17. Connemara; 18. First Indian full-time President of the city’s Corporation; 19. The Indian Trust Invitation Cup; 20. Prince of Arcot.
