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Vol. XXV No. 22, March 1-15, 2016
(Current Affairs questions are from the period February 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Which city retained the top spot for being the cleanest city in India, the recently released ‘Swachh Sarvekshan 2016’?
2. Name the first indigenously developed light revolver, weighing merely 250 grams and describe, too the lightest made in India, successfully introduced recently.
3. Which team beat India to win its maiden ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup?
4. In a path-breaking first, what astronomical phenomena, first hypothesised by Albert Einstein in 1916, was located 1.3 billion light years away from earth recently?
5. Which famous university, founded by Bharat Ratna Madan Mohan Malviya, turned 100 on February 13th?
6. In which southern State capital is Apple all set to initiate its first technology centre at a cost of $25 million?
7. Which Indian has been chosen the Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Year?
8. Amar Chitra Katha’s first romance novel, A Kingdom For His Love, recently released, is a retelling of which Sanskrit play?
9. According to the Union Home Ministry’s new guidelines for disaster warning, which colours are given for severe, moderate and low type of disasters?
10. In which State did India and China recently hold their first joint tactical exercise ‘Sino-Indian Cooperation 2016’?
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11. Which Tamil Nadu city is ranked third nationally in the recently released ‘Swachh Sarvekshan 2016’?
12. The Union Textile Ministry has bestowed the Indian Handloom Brand tag on which type of sarees from the State for their unique designs and identity?
13. After whom is the Intellectual Property Office in Guindy named?
14. The State Government’s new initiative to supply drinking water to those who cannot afford to buy purified drinking water from private players is called …?
15. Ponmani (CR 1009), BPT 5204, and ADT 44 are popular varieties of which edible item in our State?
16. What is the Tamil name for the hybrid called ‘Damask Rose’?
17. In 1955, R.P. Sethu Pillai was the first recipient of which coveted award?
18. What edifice in Chennai, built by Friar Pedro de Antogia, is half-a-millennia old this year?
19. Which respected and popular school completed 60 years on February 3rd?
20. Which millionaire English business moghul has revealed that his great-great-great-grandfather John was a shopkeeper and John’s father Harry an auctioneer in Madras?
1. Mysuru; 2. ‘Nidar’; 3. West Indies; 4. Gravitational Waves; 5. Banaras Hindu University; 6. Hyderabad; 7. Anirban Lahiri; 8. Swapnavasavadattam; 9. Red, Orange and Yellow; 10. Jammu & Kashmir.
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11. Tiruchchirapalli; 12. Chettinad cottons (kandaangi); 13. Murasoli Maran; 14. ‘Amma Kudineer Thittam’; 15. Long duration varieties of rice; 16. Pannirpoo; 17. Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil; 18. Luz Church; 19. Vidya Mandir, Mylapore; 20. Richard Branson.