Quizzin with Ramanan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period May 15th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. By claiming the Spanish GP at age 18, who became the youngest driver to win a Formula One race?
2. Where was the first-ever United Nations humanitarian summit, to address a 125-million people crisis, the worst since World War II, held recently?
3. Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga, children of Indian origin, were declared co-winners of which prestigious, decades-old competition in the USA recently?
4. Greek archaeologists have claimed to found the tomb of which legendary philosopher and thinker in the village of Stagira?
5. Name the recently launched multilingual knowledge portal with the largest online repository of dictionaries in India.
6. Apart from Goa, J&K and Chhattisgarh, which three States in India are to get new IITs?
7. What first, in space travel, did ISRO achieve on May 23rd?
8. Name the distinguished police officer and Ramon Magsaysay Award winner who has been appointed the new Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry.
9. A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve is a recent anthology contain which Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna award’s previously unpublished writings?
10. Which Oscar-winning actress has been appointed ‘professor in practice’ in a new MSc programme in women, peace and security at the prestigious London School of Economics?

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11. When the zoo in Madras celebrated its centenary in 1955, a new entrance in Art Deco style was created. After which legendary naturalist was it named?
12. Nauka Charitramu and Prahlada Bhakti Vijayamu are the only two surviving operas penned by which great composer?
13. Which century-old educational institution in Chennai started in 1869 off as the Vizianagaram Maharajah’s Hindu Girls School?
14. The United East Indian Company of the Netherlands that was founded in 1602 made which place the capital of the Dutch Coromandel?
15. Which freedom fighter from Vedaranyam, known for his heroic contributions in the salt march of Vedaranyam, was called ‘Sardar’?
16. To which legendary building contractor did the houses Crynant and Gomitra, where Srinivasa Ramanujam spent his last days after returning from England belong?
17. Who is returning to acting with a full-fledged role, after six years, with Tamizhan Endru Sol?
18. How did the newly elected Tiruparankundram MLA make news recently?
19. On what was the agreement between Francis Day and the Raja of Chandragiri drawn up and said to have disappeared from the Fort in 1746?
20. The foundation work for which edifice was started on March 25, 1678 (Lady’s Day)?

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