Quizzin with Ramanan

(Current Affairs questions are from the period September 16th to 30th. Questions 11 to 20 pertain to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Which Indian airport has ­become Asia-Pacific’s only airport, and one of the world’s few, to achieve a carbon neutral status?
2. Name the Nobel Laureate, former PM and President of Israel, who passed away recently.
3. What is the official name of Gurgaon today?
4. India will purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. Who makes the jets?
5. What honour has been accorded by the Union Government to 105-year-old Kunwar Bai from Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari District?
6. Land Rover commissioned the world’s largest Lego sculpture of a London monument, created with 5,805,846 pieces, to launch its new vehicle ‘Discovery’. What is this edifice?
7. Which Asian online giant is planning to launch the world’s first e-commerce satellite next year to provide people with the best vegetables?
8. Who is to be the inaugural recipient of the annual Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award for a person who has served as an inspiration in society?
9. Lok Kalyan Marg is the new name of which road in Lutyens’ Delhi?
10. Name Google’s new messaging app, intented to rival WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, that was launched recently.

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11. Which Tamil film has been selected as India’s official entry for the 89th Academy Awards for ­Foreign Language Film category?
12. Where in Rama­nathapuram District was the world’s largest solar power plant at a single location, with an installed capacity of 648MW, commissioned recently?
13. The Asian Development Bank has approved a $631 million loan for building India’s first coastal industrial corridor between Chennai and which city?
14. Apart from Madurai and Thanjavur, which other two Tamil Nadu cities have been shortlisted by the Union Ministry of Urban Deve­lopment in the third batch of Smart Cities Mission?
15. Which paddler from the State became the second Indian to win an ITTF event (after A. Sharath Kamal) by clinching the men’s singles title at the Belgium Open?
16. Name the famous Bengali poet who took up a teaching assignment at the Male Orphan Asylum in Egmore in 1848.
17. Which market in Chennai is named after the Telugu term for a tiger’s cage?
18. Who wrote the detailed Southern India: Its History, People, Commerce and Industrial Resources, one of the most popular reference books on the history of Madras?
19. On which busy Chennai thoroughfare is the Sri Bala­subra­mania Bhakta Jana Sabhai, synonymous with Thiru Vi. Ka ­located?
20. Nimynbacka, Lingumbauca and Moongumbaukum are some of the variants that occur in the South India Company records of which bustling, present-day Chennai ­locality?

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