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Vol. XXVI No. 12, October 1-15, 2016
Quizzin with Ramanan
(Current Affairs questions are from the period September 1st to 15th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)
1. Name the place in Assam which recently won the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest river island. It is also India’s first island district.
2. Which globally-popular Asian actor, known for his action films, is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar?
3. Which party became the latest and seventh national political party recently?
4. Which SAARC nation has become the second in Southeast Asia to be declared a malaria-free country by WHO?
5. What is the canonised or saintly name of Mother Teresa now?
6. Which prominent and vocal sportsperson-turned-politician, a one-time MP, has launched a new party called ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’?
7. Which German giant recently bought Monsanto for a whopping $66 billion to create one of the world’s largest agro-chemical companies?
8. Which iconic animal, that symbolised wildlife conservation, was removed from IUCN’s endangered species list and replaced by the Eastern gorilla?
9. In which event did Mariyappan Thangavelu win India’s first gold medal at the Rio Paralympics?
10. Who assumed charge as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on September 5th?
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11. What academic first did Harikesanallur L. Muthiah Bhagavatar’s Sangita Kalpadrumam achieve in 1943?
12. The Madras Trades School, founded by the Department of Industries in 1912, was renamed in 1946 as…?
13. The place/wharf from where the Royal Madras Yacht Club operates is named after its founder, who was the first Chairman of the Madras Port Trust. Name it and him.
14. When the Chepauk Palace was completed, what was the name of its main two blocks?
15. Who was the President of the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, set up in 1918, between 1927 and 1948?
16. What office in Royapettah now occupies the space that had a vast garden house once known as Gowri Vilas and Acharya Griha?
17. In the 18th Century, the English planned two settlements. If the second was Chinna Tari Pettah (Chintadripet), then what was the first?
18. In which year did Black Town become George Town?
19. Which public place was named after the engineer of the Madras Corporation who was responsible for constructing Moore Market?
20. Which famous market in Chennai, that shut down at the end of the 20th Century, functioned from the land owned by the Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Devasthanam Trust?
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11. It’s the first doctoral thesis written in Carnatic music; 12. Central Polytechnic; 13. Springhaven Wharf named after Sir Francis Spring; 14. Humayun Mahal and Khalas Mahal; 15. Mahatma Gandhi; 16. Provident Fund Commissioner’s Office; 17. Collet’s Pettah or Kaladipet; 18. 1911; 19. Loane’s Park (after Samuel Joshua Loane); 20. Kotwal Chavadi in George Town.
