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Vol. XXV No. 18, January 1-15, 2016
Quizzin with Ramanan
(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which Indian golfer won the coveted Order of Merit crown of the Asian Tour for 2015?
2. The ground-breaking ceremony of an ambitious 1800 km-long TAPI gas pipeline project was held in Turkmenistan. What does TAPI stand for?
3. Which two Indian cities for the first time have been designated as members of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network?
4. Which veteran parliamentarian and former president of the BCCI is the subject of a recently-released autobiography titled On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power?
5. Who is Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year 2015’?
6. Which two cities are the new interim franchises in the Indian Premier League?
7. Which small but prosperous Asian nation has replaced Mauritius as the top source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in India during the first half of the current fiscal year?
8. The Union Government’s recently introduced nationwide campaign in a bid to achieve universal accessibility to persons with disabilities is called…?
9. The new Chief Justice of India is…?
10. Name the nonagenarian actor who was formally conferred the Padma Vibhushan on December 13th.
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11. What is the official status the Union Government gave to the flood that ravaged our State recently?
12. Name the veteran industrialist, sports administrator, record-holder in horse racing, former parliamentarian and who belonged to the Rajah of Chettinad’s family who passed away recently.
13. Tamil Nadu-born Nobel Laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been made the President of the oldest existing scientific organisation. Name it.
14. Who founded ‘Chandraprabha Cinetone’ to produce the musical classic Sakunthalai starring MS?
15. In the above question, which future Chief Minister played the role of the main dancer in Dushyanta’s court?
16. How is the century-old Lawley Hall on Mount Road, belonging to the Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam (AHI) Trust, that caught fire recently, better known?
17. Which Sangitha Kalanidhi and legendary vocalist set the Tiruppavai to tune?
18. The University Senate House in Madras is said to have been inspired by which regal structure in Madurai?
19. Who composed the popular Skanda Sashti Kavacham or Kanda Sashti Kavasam?
20. If the Music Academy bestows the Sangita Kalanidhi, who gives the accolade ‘Sangita Kalashikhamani’?
1. Anirban Lahiri; 2. Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India; 3. Jaipur and Varanasi; 4. Sharad Pawar; 5. Angela Merkel of Germany; 6. Pune and Rajkot; 7. Singapore; 8. ‘Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan’ (Accessible India Campaign); 9. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur; 10. Dilip Kumar.
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11. ‘Calamity of Severe Nature’; 12. M.A.M. Ramaswamy; 13.British Royal Society; 14. Her husband T. Sadasivam; 15. V.N.Janaki; 16. India Silk House building; 17. Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar; 18. Tirumalai Nayak Mahal; 19. Devaraya Swamigal; 20.Indian Fine Arts Society.
