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Vol. XXVII No. 23, March 16-31, 2018
Quizzin’ with Ramanan
(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from February 16 to 28. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which popular social media communication app, owned by Facebook, has been given permission to have a payment feature for its Indian users?
2. Whose record did Roger Federer beat to become the oldest World No. 1 tennis player?
3. Which paceman has been appointed as Pakistan Cricket Board’s brand ambassador?
4. Which company recently became the first ecommerce firm to enter food retail venture in the country by starting operations in Pune?
5. Name the station in Rajasthan that has become the first all-women railway station.
6. Aruna Budda Reddy recently became the first Indian to win a medal in the World championships of which Olympic sport?
7. What is Aadhaar card for children under 5 years, that won’t have any biometric data, called and what will be its colour?
8. Chilika Lake in Odisha has become the single largest habitat for which endangered marine animal?
9. What is the purpose of the ‘SRIJAN’ idea competition announced recently?
10. On February 20, which South American country officially launched its Petro cryptocurrency, which it claims is the world’s first sovereign cryptocurrency?
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11. Which cities will form part of the country’s first defence industrial corridor to be set up in the State?
12. Going per the lineage, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi of Kanchi who passed away recently was the ____ of the Kanchi Mutt.
13. Name the Governor of the Madras Presidency responsible for the establishment of the University of Madras in 1857.
14. Castle Kernan is now called…?
15. Where on Sardar Patel Road can once spot this Sanskrit motto ‘Siddhirbhavathi karmaja’?
16. Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao was responsible for which statue that was unveiled in June 1887 close to the seashore?
17. Which scheme introduced by Rajaji when he was the CM led to uproar and eventually his stepping down?
18. Where in Chennai is the Edouard Michelin Auditorium?
19. The ‘Malabar Samachar’ founded in 1925 was the first magazine in which language to come out of Madras Presidency?
20. Which institute came up at Krishna Vilas at Vepery in December 1951?
Answers to Quiz1. WhatsApp; 2. AndreAgassi; 3. Shoaib Akhtar; 4. Amazon; 5. Jaipur’s Gandhi Nagar; 6. Gymnastics; 7. ‘Baal Aadhaar Card’ in blue colour; 8. Irrawaddy dolphins; 9. Launched by the Indian railways, it is for revamping 635 major railway stations; 10. Venezuela.
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11. Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Coimbatore and Tiruchirapalli; 12. 69th; 13. Rt Hon. Lord John Elphinstone; 14. Vivekanandar Illam; 15. Logo of IIT Madras; 16. Queen Victoria’s statue in the Madras varsity complex; 17. ‘Kula Kalvi Thittam’; 18. Alliance Française of Madras; 19. Gujarati; 20. Ramanujan Institute.
Sir,
This has reference to Quizzin’ with Ramanan, question number 17.
Once my sister attended an interview in TNPSC. There this question(Which scheme introduced by Rajaji when he was the CM led to uproar and eventually his stepping down?.) was asked. My sister answered, it was ‘Kulakalvi Thittam’. the interviewer said, “Correct, but what is the official name of that scheme?”. My sister said she was not aware of it. Then the interviewer told her that the official name of the scheme was “Paguthi nera kalvi thittam”.