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Vol. XXV No. 23, March 16-31, 2016

Quizzin with Ramanan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period February 16th to 29th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. At the recent Oscar awards ceremony, which film clinched the maximum awards (six)?
2. President Pranab Mukherjee recently declared which South Indian state as the first digital State of the country?
3. Which London-listed corporate has won India’s first-ever auction of a gold mine, the one at Baghmara in Chhattisgarh?
4. Which Oscar-winning Indian has won the prestigious American Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Golden Reel Award for his work on ‘India’s Daughter’?
5. Who did Mumbai beat to win the Ranji Trophy for a record 41st time?
6. Gianni Infantino is the new president of which powerful but beleaguered global sports body?
7. What is the Position of Strength campaign?
8. The Parliament of which of India’s neighbours has become the first in the world to run fully on solar power?
9. Who smashed a record-breaking Test century off only 54 balls and that too in his farewell Test?
10. Name the author of the critically acclaimed all-time classic To Kill a Mockingbird who passed away on February 19th.

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11. Which is the second oldest women’s college in South India and the first in Madras city?
12. Brick by Brick by Sriram V. and Karthik Bhatt chronicles the story of which respected school in Chennai?
13. Name the Tamil comedian, known for his cross-eyed look and manic laughter, who passed away recently.
14. In the context of Fort St. George’s layout, Parade (or Barracks), Hanover, Fort and Portuguese are examples of…?
15. What did the initials T.S. stand for in the legendary actor T.S. Baliah’s name?
16. Which place in Coimbatore District, with pin code 642 106 is named after a medicinal plant native to the Andes?
17. In 1888, G. Subramania Iyer, one of the six who started The Hindu, founded a school in Triplicane. Name it.
18. On February 29th, Google created a Doodle honouring on her 112th birthday a woman, who founded a respected Chennai institution. Name this ‘leapling’.
19. Seevali, the blow-piece used in the nadaswaram, is made from which plant?
20. Which iconic brand was started by P.V.S.K. Palaniappan in 1916?

Answers to Quiz

1. Mad Max: Fury Road; 2. Kerala; 3. Vedanta Limited; 4. Resul Pookutty; 5. Saurashtra; 6. FIFA; 7. Launched by Twitter in India to empower women to raise voices against any form of discrimination; 8. Pakistan; 9. Brendon McCullum; 10. Harper Lee.

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11. Queen Mary’s; 12. Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Mylapore; 13. Kumarimuthu; 14. Squares; 15. Tirunelveli Subramania; 16. Cinchona; 17. Aryan High School (now Kellett High School); 18. Rukmini Devi Arundale; 19. Korukku Thattai; 20. Kalimark.

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