Quizzin with Ramanan

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

1. Name the substance that was recently identified as the world’s most heat-resistant material, withstanding record melting point temperatures up to 3958°C.

2. How did eminent modern Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh make news recently?

3. According to a Forbes magazine report, India has surpassed which country to become the world’s sixth-largest economy in GDP terms?

4. Researchers in the US have developed the first vaccine made from an insect-specific virus (Eilat) that does not have any effect on people for which affliction that is common in India?

5. Name the mother-daughter actress duo, the former known for her role in Singing in the Rain and the latter for playing Leia in Star Wars, who passed away recently.

6. What 117-year-old First Class record did Gujarat opener Samit Gohel break while scoring an unbeaten 359 in a Ranji match recently?

7. Dinanath Bhargava, who passed away recently aged 89 years, is known for co-creating which symbol/emblem that is synonymous with our country?

8. Whose birthday that fell on December 25 was observed as ‘Good Governance Day’? Hint: He is a Bharat Ratna awardee.

9. Which actor topped the 2016 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List with the highest revenue for the year under review at an impressive Rs. 270.33 crore?

10. Name the two prestigious ICC Awards won by R. Ashwin recently.

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11. Name the writer, who also writes poetry in the name of Kalyanji, selected for this year’s Sahitya Akademi award for his short story collection Oru Siru Isai.

12. Name the first locally produced film in Tamil and the first Tamil talkies.

13. Where in Chennai is the Inter-national Institute of Tamil Studies?

14. Which well-known publication debuted on August 10, 1942?

15. Sangita Perunkadal by Rani-myn-than is a biography of which legendary musician who passed away last November?

16. Madras had its first woman sheriff in 1956. Can you name her?

17. At 76 years, an establishment founded by Sankunni Nair and located in T’ Nagar is considered the oldest of its kind in Chennai. Name it and what type of establishment is it?

18. Tim Boyd is the eighth and current president of which respected Chennai institution?

19. If the South India People’s Association’s English newspaper was called Justice, what was is Tamil newspaper named?

20. What is the present name of what was Cuddon Building on Mount Road?

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