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Vol. XXVII No. 7, July 16-31, 2017

Quizzin’ with Ramanan

(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from June 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. On June 29th, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the centenary celebrations of which iconic place in Gujarat associated with Mahatma Gandhi?
2. The Golden Jubilee of the inauguration by Barclays Bank at Enfield of this feature, that is a part of everyone’s life now, was celebrated on June 27th. What?
3. The European Union’s competition watchdog recently slapped a 2.42 billion Euro fine, the largest-ever fine in an EU anti-trust case, on a tech giant. Name the company.
4. Champion shuttler Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian to win back-to-back Superseries titles. Name the two tournaments.
5. Which former ISRO chairman is to head the new nine-member panel set up by the HRD Ministry to frame a new National Education Policy (NEP)?
6. Singapore’s Imran Khawaja is the first deputy chairman of which powerful sports body that is headed by an Indian?
7. According to the 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects released by the United Nations recently, India would surpass China to become the world’s most populous country by which year?
8. Which iconic edifice in Mumbai has acquired an ‘image trademark’, under the Trademark Act of 1999, making it is the first building in the country to acquire IP rights protection for its architectural design?
9. With which Indian company has Lockheed Martin signed a pact to produce its famous F-16 fighters in India?
10. Which bustling South Indian city became the latest to have a metro rail on June 17th?

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11. How did 18-year old Md. Rifath Shaarook of Pallapatti, Karur District, make news in Space exploration on June 22nd?
12. Name the four cities from the State that were added to the Centre’s Smart Cities Mission on June 25th.
13. Where in Chennai did Larsen & Toubro launch its first indigenously built Floating Dock (FDN-2) to repair Indian Navy ships?
14. Which educational institution now stands on what was once the Elphinstone Park, Adyar?
15. What first did Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji, the last Maharaja of the Gohil dynasty, record in post-independence Madras State?
16. Which church has the higher steeple: St. Andrew’s Kirk or St. George’s Cathedral?
17. Apart from the Vishnu theertham, which are the other four holy theerthams in the Kairavini Pushkarini at Parthasarathy Temple in Triplicane?
18. According to Company records from 1721, what was the general name given to the sandy area bounded by the sea (east), the winding course of the Cooum and the Long or Mylapore Tank (west), Government House bridge (north) and Cenotaph Road corner (south)?
19. What was the name of the company that John Binny founded in 1903 that later became Binny & Co.?
20. Who built the ‘Ayiravilakku’ building near Peter’s Road for the assemblage of the Shias during the Muharram mournings?

Answers to Quiz

1. Sabarmati Ashram, 2. ATM, 3. Google, 4. Indonesia and Australian Opens, 5. K. Kasturirangan, 6. ICC, 7. 2024, 8. The Taj Mahal Hotel, 9. Tata Advanced Systems, 10. Kochi.

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11.His KalamSat, launched by NASA, is the world¡¯s lightest satellite at 64 grams, 12. Tirupur, Tirunelveli, Thoothukkudi and Tiruchirappalli, 13. Kattupalli, north of Chennai, 14. St. Patrick¡¯s, 15. He was the first Indian Governor of Madras, 16. St. Andrew¡¯s Kirk (166½ feet, which is 27½ feet higher than that of St. George’s), 17. Indra, Soma, Meena and Agni, 18. Choultry Plain, 19. Binny and Dennison, 20. Nawab Umdat-ul-Umara (1795-1801).

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