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Vol. XXVII No. 13, October 16-31, 2017

Quizzin’ with Ramanan

(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from September 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. The only country that forbade its women from driving has decided to allow them to do so from next year. Which country?
2. What is the Rs. 16,000 crore ‘Saubhagya’ launched by the Prime Minister recently?
3. Which eminent scientist has become the first Indian and Asian to be awarded the Von Hippel Award, the highest international prize in Materials Research?
4. Which film has been chosen to represent India in the Best Foreign Language category at the 90th Academy Awards’ (Oscars’) function in February 2018?
5. Name India’s first conventional submarine in two decades handed over to the Indian Navy by state-owned Mazagon Dock Limited recently.
6. Name Google’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based digital payment service launched by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently.
7. Name the controversial multi-purpose interstate dam on the Narmada dedicated to the nation by the Prime Minister on September 18th.
8. Name India’s only Marshal of the Indian Air Force who passed away recently.
9. In a landmark decision, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has downgraded conservation status of which big cat from “endangered” to “vulnerable”?
10. Name the veteran theatre, television and film actor of American descent and a Padma Shri awardee, known for his work in films like Shatranj Ke Khilari, Junoon and Kranti, who passed away on September 30th.

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11. Which still functioning cinema theatre, once advertised as ‘Theatre Magnificent’, near the Cooum on Mount Road was built by the Irani family?
12. Which Bharat Ratna-awardee’s memoirs/autobiography is The Hand of Destiny?
13. Who was the first woman elected to Madras Legislature?
14. What first has K. Prithika Yashini of the Choolaimedu Police Station achieved?
15. Which institution, with links to the women’s suffrage movement, was formed 100 years ago by Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa and Annie Besant among others?
16. Which park was developed from a botanical garden gifted to the Madras Corporation by A. Armoogam Mudaliar?
17. Who painted the ‘The Assembly Rooms on the Race Ground near Madras’ which is displayed in the Fort Museum?
18. Name the new full-time Governor of Tamil Nadu.
19. What important appointment does A. Anbuselvan, ias hold in Chennai?
20. How many Devara Paadal Petra Shiva Sthalams are there?

Answers to Quiz

1. Saudi Arabia, 2. To give power connections free of cost to households across the country that have no access to electricity, 3. C.N.R. Rao, 4. Newton, 5. ins Kalvari, 6. Tez, 7. Sardar Sarovar Dam, 8. Arjan Singh, 9. Snow leopard, 10. Tom Alter.

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11. Casino, 12. C. Subramaniam, 13. Rukmini Lakshmipathy, 14. She is the first transgender to be appointed a Sub-Inspector of Police in Tamil Nadu, 15. Women’s Indian Association (WIA), 16. Arignar Anna Poonga (earlier, Robinson Park), 17. Thomas Daniell, 18. Banwarilal Purohit, 19. He is the Chennai District Collector, 20. 276.

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