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Vol. XXV No. 19, January 16-31, 2016
Quizzin with ramanan
(Current Affairs questions are from the period December 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Following the National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders, the Supreme Court recently banned registration of diesel cars in which Indian State?
2. How did Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines make news recently?
3. Who is the new Indian Super League champion?
4. The LPG subsidy will not be available to consumers if the consumer or his/her spouse has taxable income of more than…?
5. What sporting distinction for an India international did Mizoram’s Lallianzuala Chhangte achieve recently?
6. Which of these Asian countries approved the world’s first-ever dengue vaccine: Indonesia, Singapore or The Philippines?
7. Eminent Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary has become the 51st recipient of which prestigious literary award?
8. Which public sector behemoth has topped the 2015 Fortune 500 companies in India, for the sixth consecutive year, with annual revenue of Rs. 4,51,911 crore?
9. The Vatican has decided to confer sainthood on which eminent Indian in September 2016?
10. Name the three corporate houses on which the National Stock Exchange launched separate indices.
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11. Which Chennaiyin FC player won the Golden Boot for being the highest scorer in the ISL?
12. Which person awarded the Bharat Ratna was born in a house on West Hanumantharayar Koil Street?
13. Vere Henry Levinge is credited with developing which hill station?
14. What happened to New Black Town when the new British monarch ascended the throne in 1910?
15. Which Madras area’s name means ‘an open, level space separating a fortress from a town’?
16. Name the studio that once stood where the present Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram stands.
17. The extract from Chichorium intybus is an integral part of a variation of a consumable that many of us start the day with. What do we get from Chichorium intybus?
18. Which Chennai temples’ construction were funded to a great extent bt Manali Muthukrishna Mudali, the dubash of Governor Pigot?
19. What were the names given to the head of the East India Company government in Madras between 1639 and 1666 when the first Governor was appointed?
20. Which institution in Madras was once known as ‘Kanji Thottam Hospital’, getting its name from the first organised charity in Madras?
1. Delhi; 2. She is the new Miss Universe; 3. Chennaiyin FC; 4. Rs. 10 lakh; 5. Youngest ever footballer to score a goal for India; 6. The Philippines; 7. Jnanpith Award; 8. Indian Oil Corporation; 9. Mother Teresa; 10. Tata, Aditya Birla and Mahindra Group.
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11. Stiven Mendonza; 12. M.S. Subbulakshmi; 13. Kodaikanal; 14.It was renamed Georgetown; 15. Esplanade; 16.Newtone Studio; 17.Chicory; 18. Chennai Kesava Perumal and Chennai Malliskesvara Temples; 19. Agent and then President; 20. Stanley Hospital.
