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Vol. XXVII No. 5, June 16-30, 2017

Quizzin with Ramanan

Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from May 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.

1. What image will appear on the new Re. 1 currency note that the RBI is planning to bring back into circulation?
2. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation’s new nation-wide campaign to promote toilet use and freedom from open defecation across the villages of the country is called?
3. Of which prestigious National-level cultural award is Satyabrata Rout the latest recipient?
4. Name the controversial ‘supercop’, credited with rooting out militancy in Punjab, and a former head of the Indian Hockey Federation who passed away recently.
5. According to an amendment by the National nodal body, what is the time period till when an entity will be considered a Start-Up?
6. Name the world-famous circus that came to a close after 146 years on May 21st.
7. Name the British actor who played James Bond between 1973 and 1985 and who passed away recently.
8. Name the famous feature of Mount Everest which collapsed as a result of the 2015 earthquake has been confirmed. The collapse makes the world’s highest peak even more dangerous for climbers.
9. The Square by Ruben Ostlund won the Palmed’Or for the best picture at which celebrated film festival recently?
10. BSNL recently inked agreements with which popular social media portal and wallet to popularise the internet and its value added services among its customers?

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11. Name the actress who played the title role in SS Vasan’s Miss Malini and her more famous daughter, a National Award-winner and a Rajya Sabha member.
12. In the context of Chennai cuisine, which famous eating place was started by Triloknath Gupta in the late 1940s?
13. Another film question. By what screen name was P.K. Nagalingam known, a name he got because of his physique?
14. Name the 210-year-old church on Davidson Street in George Town that is said to have a chair belonging to the Tamil scholar and linguist Bishop Robert Caldwell.
15. Name the ‘infamously famous’ journalist with whom would one associate the journals Hindu Nesan and Cinema Thoothu.
16. What was the poetic name of Nawab Ghulam Ghouse Khan Bahadur, the last Nawab of the Carnatic, after whom an institution on Mount Road is named?
17. Name the rarely played lute-like stringed instrument that looks like the veena sans the frets and on which thalam can be played by striking two bamboo sticks.
18. In 1887, Raja Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, was the first Indian to hold which public appointment in Madras?
19.Name the pioneering city magazine started by Sita and Abraham Eraly in November 1977 that called itself ‘A Magazine of Madras’?
20.Name the first Indian studio-backed film to be made exclusively for the Internet that premiered in April 2014.

Answers to Quiz

1. Sagar Samrat oil exploration rig, 2. ‘Darwaza Bandh’, 3. Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar, the highest Indian recognition given to practising artists, 4. K.P.S. Gill, 5. Not completed seven years from the date of its incorporation/registration, 6. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 7. Roger Moore, 8. The ‘Hillary Step’, 9. Cannes, 10. Facebook and MobiKwik

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11. Pushpavalli and Rekha, 12. Ratna Café, 13. Raja Sandow, 14. William Charles church, 15. C.N. Lakshmikanthan, 16. Azam (after whom the Madrasa-I-Azam is named), 17. ‘Geth’, 18. Sheriff, 19. Aside, 20. AVM’s Idhuvum Kadandhu Pogum.

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