Quizzin’ with Ramanan

(Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s questions are from September 16 to 30. Questions 11 to 20 relate to Chennai and Tamil Nadu.)

1. Which country won the FIFA Under-17 World Cup recently?
2. It has been decided to set which measurement by value of Planck constant in combination with definitions of meter and second and not a cylinder as it is pegged now?
3. Geologists for the first time in India have discovered 152 million-year-old fossil of which marine reptile in the Kachch desert?
4. Name the Padma Vibhushan awardee, called the ‘Queen of Thumbri’, who died recently.
5. Which uprising of 1817 will be named as the First War of Independence instead of the better known 1857 one according to the Union HRD Ministry?
6. Which European superstar was named as the Best FIFA Men’s Player for a second straight year?
7. Which two BWF Super Series badminton titles did K. Srikanth win back-to-back in October?
8. According to a new study published in the global medical journal The Lancet, India with 2.51 million deaths, has topped the list of countries in 2015 for what?
9. Name the American author who has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel Lincoln in the Bardo?
10. Name the recent campaign launched by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development in an attempt to end Gender bias in women against women.

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11. After the Motion Pictures Producers’ Combine studio burnt down in 1940, who bought the property and made it into what?
12. Which Government had its consulate on the top floor of Dare House when the building opened?
13. Name the huge property, named after the family which owned it, on which Thaneer Thurai market came up?
14. Who was the guardian to the sons of Tippu Sultan while they were held hostage by the British?
15. Name the oldest Freemason’s lodge in Madras (consecrated on October. 9, 1786) still surviving.
16. Which hotel, founded by G. Varadarajulu Chetty in 1885, started off as a restaurant in Broadway where the Bank of Maharashtra now is?
17. ‘The General Assembly’s Institution’ founded in 1837 by the Rev. John Anderson is now the…?
18. Which Madras literary work published in the 1930s starts off with a poem ‘Dakshinakulam – A dream on the beach in moonlight’ by Hilton Brown?
19. Founded in 1843, which establishment is considered Madras’ first department store, selling everything short of a “wife or housekeeper”?
New College stands on a site that housed the residence of one of the leading diamond merchants of the Madras Presidency in the late 19th and early 20th century. Name the business house.

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