Quizzin with Ramanan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period January 16th to 31st. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Name the player who became the first German woman tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title after Steffi Graf did in 1999.
2. Name the freedom fighter, known as ‘Punjab Kesari’, whose sesquicentennial birthday was celebrated on January 28th.
3. Who was the official State guest at the Republic Day Parade this year?
4. How did Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami make news recently?
5. According to a shocking, recently-released World Economic Forum (WEF) report, oceans will have more of what environmentally destructive item than fish by 2050 if the ongoing practice of dumping continues?
6. Which small Northeastern State has formally become India’s first fully organic State after it successfully implemented organic farming practices in around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land?
7. The second volume of whose memoirs, titled The Turbulent Years – 1980-1996, was released by Vice President Hamid Ansari recently?
8. Which African country recently made news because of a law that makes it mandatory for men of the nation to marry at least two wives?
9. India has overtaken Thailand to become the world’s largest exporter of which grain?
10. Which two actors have been named new brand ambassadors of the ‘Incredible India’ campaign to markets the nation as a tourist destination?

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11. Apart from Chennai, which other Tamil Nadu city figures in the first batch of Smart Cities Mission?
12. Apart from superstar Rajinikanth, which other Chennai resident has been chosen for a Padma Vibhushan, the nation’s second-highest civilian award?
13. Founding history. With whom did Francis Day negotiate a treaty for the establishment of the English Company in what later became Madras?
14. The 1965 award-winning film Oonche Log starring Ashok Kumar and Raj Kumar was based on which play?
15. One of the earliest coins of the Madras Presidency was the ‘Three Swami’ pagoda. Who were featured on it?
16. Who was the King of England when Madras was returned to the British under the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748?
17. Name the first English newspaper of the Company in Madras that was started on October 12, 1785.
18. The Great House in Charles Street in Fort St. George, owned by Shawmier Sultan, was given a name (after the Company took it over in the 18th Century) that all of us are familiar with. What name?
19. Thirunavukkarasu started a popular publishing firm in 1955 and it after a character in Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan. Name the famous institution.
20. Name the last hotel that was in the complex where the IOB HQ is located on Mount Road.

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