2. Question 1
Col Gurdial Singh did his medicine in Edinburgh and
returned to India to join the Indian Medical service.
The IMS was however abolished and in it’s members
were given the option of joining defense or quasi
military services. Gurdial chose the Prisons Services.
He was the jailor when Rajaji was in Vellore prison
and became friends with him. When he retired Rajiji
asked him to settle down in Chennai. Their family
over generations have built a number of institutions
and even lent their surname to a locality. What is
the surname of this family?
3. Question 2
C S Loganatha Mudaliar was one of the big Civil
builders of that time. In course of time he joined
with X from Bombay and formed the company X &
co. X & co had their headquarters @ Dhun buildings
on Mount Road. Dhun buildings stood on P&T land
and the P& T department decided to sell some
excess land to build the head post office. X&co
purchased the excess land and bid for the
cosntruction, they however weren’t selected and
instead built their own HO on the piece of land that
they purchased, where they still stand. Identify X
4. Question 3
Colonel J J Pennycuick was one of the earlier
secretaries of the Madras cricket club and was
instrumental in its move to Chepauk from the old
Island premises. He was heading the PWD when
a cyclone resulted in damage to the old club
house and immediatley sanctioned funds for its
repair. He is however more famous for a creation
of his and is in fact worshipped as a god in
certain parts for this. What is his most famous
creation?
5. Question 4
He converted to Christianity to avoid arranged
marriage and left his home town and came to Madras.
He first taught at St.George’s school at that point of
time an orphan’s asylum.
He was appointed as a teacher in the English High
school in 1852. This school in 1855 became Presidency
college.
His first four poems were in fact published in the
Madras Circulator in 1848 under the name Timothy
Penpoem. He returned to his home in 1859 and
continued his works that changed the face of poetry in
his home town. Who are we talking about?
6. Question 5
This company has constructed some of Chennai’s
biggest landmark’s such as the Gemini flyover, Anna
Nagar tower, M A Chidamabaram stadium, Citi Center
and the light house. Id the company?
The founder’s family is knows as the _______ group in
Tamilnadu. The blank being the name of a famous
hotel @ one point of time in chennai.
The founder of the group also runs an engineering
college, an alumnus of this college is there in our midst
:)
Id the group,, fill in the blankd and if possible the famous
alumni in our midst
7. Question 6
God made the moonlight
and the chatka bird to drink it
He made ambrosia
and gods to partake it
Beauty he created
in the flower, the azure sky
and in the woman’s face
so that the far famed _____ __________ ______
could capture it with his great vision
8. This was published in a chennai newspaper
and is Y’s tribute to X.
Id X & Y
9. Question 7
One of the most famous cases that Sir C P
Ramaswamy Aiyar fought early in his life was for a
person by the name of Narayaniah. Naryanaiah had
filed a case against X claiming the return of his sons
who were under the custody of X.
Though Sir C P had a chance to charge X with
contempt of court for not producing a certain
document as ordered by the court,he did not do
so. Later on X and C P went to be very close friends.
Id X, and also the son who was in custody of X
10. Question 8
The origin of this street’ s name is
attributed to quite a few factors. Some of
them are
There were a lot of gardens and orchards at this place
and over time the street name got corrupted into its
current form
There used to be a lot of silambam practitioners at this
place
People were primarily employed in the practice of
breaking stones
11. Question 9
He was the muncipal commissioner of
Madras from 1944 to 1946. He pioneered
the concept of Sep 29th being celebrated as
inauguration day at the Madras
Corporation. He was instrumental in the
City Improvement Trust act being enacted
in 1945 and also integrating large parts of
the new city into city limits. He is
honoured with an area in the city being
named after him. Id the area
12. Question 10
She was the queen of Portugal in the 13th
and 14th centuries . A child bride she
suffered, a profligate husband till his death
in 1325 after which she entered the holy
order of the poor,Clares. Which Chennai
landmark is named after this queen
13. Question 11
The Tamil name of St.Peter is said to give
the name to which North Chennai locality?
14. Question 12
The origin of these 2 companies owe to the fact they
were used to service their parent companies.
One of the by products of the core business of the
parent company was sulphuric acid which helped set
up the company’s nascent manure manufacturing
business
The Sulphuric acid needed acid resistant jars in
which it was to be stored and thereby the company
launched its next business. Id the parent company
and the company which resulted from storing
sulphuric acid in jars
15. Question 13
S.Muthiah claims that Naveen and Saranya
Jaikumar would get one half of this question
right
Who were the only tufted bowlers to open the
bowling in a first class match?
The descendants of the second bowler went
on to achieve much more in the field of cricket
and music. What is their contribution to the
field of music and identify any 2 descendants
who have played for South Zone
16. Question 14
NLRC in 1959 had grown big and needed a
lot of funds to expand its infrastructure for
____ ______. A retired ICS man, then a
practicing advocate offered to donate
Rs30,000 in memory of his wife who had
wanted to pursue a similar initiative but had
died without fulfilling it. This resulted in the
wife and the man’s name being added to
the existing name . What were the names of
the wife and the man
17. Question 15
He was the first man from a clergy
background to not only become a civil
servant but also a Governor in India. He
was appointed as the Governor of Madras
in 1763. His significant contribution was to
depute, in 1765, Lt.William Stevens of the
Engineers to survey Adam’s bridge. Why
will we know the name of this clergy man?
18. Question 16
Raghunandan Saran was born in a wealthy
business family. Educated at St.Stephens, he
went to Cambridge and on his return
plunged into the independence movement.
After Independence on Nehru’s insistence
that industrialization was the way forward
for the country, he set up a company , in
collaboration with Austin Motors. He
named the company after his son. What
did Raghunandan Saran start?
19. Question 17
This name was selected from a contest. The
winners were T.N Akshaya Lingam of 43
Paripurna Vinayakar Koil street Mylapore
and S Swaminathan of Sowri Vilas,
Thyegaraya Nagar Teynampet. It came out
for the first time on September 11, 1934.
What name did the two suggest?
21. Question 1
Col Gurdial Singh did his medicine in Edinburgh and
returned to India to join the Indian Medical service.
The IMS was however abolished and in it’s members
were given the option of joining defense or quasi
military services. Gurdial chose the Prisons Services.
He was the jailor when Rajaji was in Vellore prison
and became friends with him. When he retired Rajiji
asked him to settle down in Chennai. Their family
over generations have built a number of institutions
and even lent their surname to a locality. What is
the surname of this family?
23. Question 2
C S Loganatha Mudaliar was one of the big Civil
builders of that time. In course of time he joined
with X from Bombay and formed the company X &
co. X & co had their headquarters @ Dhun buildings
on Mount Road. Dhun buildings stood on P&T land
and the P& T department decided to sell some
excess land to build the head post office. X&co
purchased the excess land and bid for the
cosntruction, they however weren’t selected and
instead built their own HO on the piece of land that
they purchased, where they still stand. Identify X
25. Question 3
Colonel J J Pennycuick was one of the earlier
secretaries of the Madras cricket club and was
instrumental in its move to Chepauk from the old
Island premises. He was heading the PWD when
a cyclone resulted in damage to the old club
house and immediatley sanctioned funds for its
repair. He is however more famous for a creation
of his and is in fact worshipped as a god in
certain parts for this. What is his most famous
creation?
27. Question 4
He converted to Christianity to avoid arranged
marriage and left his home town and came to Madras.
He first taught at St.George’s school at that point of
time an orphan’s asylum.
He was appointed as a teacher in the English High
school in 1852. This school in 1855 became Presidency
college.
His first four poems were in fact published in the
Madras Circulator in 1848 under the name Timothy
Penpoem. He returned to his home in 1859 and
continued his works that changed the face of poetry in
his home town. Who are we talking about?
29. Question 5
This company has constructed some of Chennai’s
biggest landmark’s such as the Gemini flyover, Anna
Nagar tower, M A Chidamabaram stadium, Citi Center
and the light house. Id the company?
The founder’s family is knows as the _______ group in
Tamilnadu. The blank being the name of a famous
hotel @ one point of time in chennai.
The founder of the group also runs an engineering
college, an alumnus of this college is there in our midst
:)
Id the group,, fill in the blankd and if possible the famous
alumni in our midst
30. ANSWER 5
East Coast Construction and Industries private
Limited.
Buhari
Crescent Engineering college and Gopal Kidao
31. Question 6
God made the moonlight
and the chatka bird to drink it
He made ambrosia
and gods to partake it
Beauty he created
in the flower, the azure sky
and in the woman’s face
so that the far famed _____ __________ ______
could capture it with his great vision
32. This was published in a chennai newspaper
and is Y’s tribute to X.
Id X & Y
33. ANSWER 6
X : Raja Ravi Varma
Y: Subramania Bharati
34. Question 7
One of the most famous cases that Sir C P
Ramaswamy Aiyar fought early in his life was for a
person by the name of Narayaniah. Naryanaiah had
filed a case against X claiming the return of his sons
who were under the custody of X.
Though Sir C P had a chance to charge X with
contempt of court for not producing a certain
document as ordered by the court,he did not do
so. Later on X and C P went to be very close friends.
Id X, and also the son who was in custody of X
36. Question 8
The origin of this street’ s name is
attributed to quite a few factors. Some of
them are
There were a lot of gardens and orchards at this place
and over time the street name got corrupted into its
current form
There used to be a lot of silambam practitioners at this
place
People were primarily employed in the practice of
breaking stones
38. Question 9
He was the muncipal commissioner of
Madras from 1944 to 1946. He pioneered
the concept of Sep 29th being celebrated as
inauguration day at the Madras
Corporation. He was instrumental in the
City Improvement Trust act being enacted
in 1945 and also integrating large parts of
the new city into city limits. He is
honoured with an area in the city being
named after him. Id the area
40. Question 10
She was the queen of Portugal in the 13th
and 14th centuries . A child bride she
suffered, a profligate husband till his death
in 1325 after which she entered the holy
order of the poor,Clares. Which Chennai
landmark is named after this queen
44. Question 12
The origin of these 2 companies owe to the fact they
were used to service their parent companies.
One of the by products of the core business of the
parent company was sulphuric acid which helped set
up the company’s nascent manure manufacturing
business
The Sulphuric acid needed acid resistant jars in
which it was to be stored and thereby the company
launched its next business. Id the parent company
and the company which resulted from storing
sulphuric acid in jars
46. Question 13
S.Muthiah claims that Naveen and Saranya
Jaikumar would get one half of this question
right
Who were the only tufted bowlers to open the
bowling in a first class match?
The descendants of the second bowler went
on to achieve much more in the field of cricket
and music. What is their contribution to the
field of music and identify any 2 descendants
who have played for South Zone
47. Answer 13
M J Gopalan, P S Ramachandran
N Pattabhiraman founded Sruti, the musical
magazine
V Ramnarayan, V Sivaramakrishnan, Vidyut
Sivaramakrishnan
48. Question 14
NLRC in 1959 had grown big and needed a
lot of funds to expand its infrastructure for
____ ______. A retired ICS man, then a
practicing advocate offered to donate
Rs30,000 in memory of his wife who had
wanted to pursue a similar initiative but had
died without fulfilling it. This resulted in the
wife and the man’s name being added to
the existing name . What were the names of
the wife and the man
50. Question 15
He was the first man from a clergy
background to not only become a civil
servant but also a Governor in India. He
was appointed as the Governor of Madras
in 1763. His significant contribution was to
depute, in 1765, Lt.William Stevens of the
Engineers to survey Adam’s bridge. Why
will we know the name of this clergy man?
51. Answer 15
His name is Rev Sir Rober PALK after whom
the Palk straits are named
52. Question 16
Raghunandan Saran was born in a wealthy
business family. Educated at St.Stephens, he
went to Cambridge and on his return
plunged into the independence movement.
After Independence on Nehru’s insistence
that industrialization was the way forward
for the country, he set up a company , in
collaboration with Austin Motors. He
named the company after his son. What
did Raghunandan Saran start?
54. Question 17
This name was selected from a contest. The
winners were T.N Akshaya Lingam of 43
Paripurna Vinayakar Koil street Mylapore
and S Swaminathan of Sowri Vilas,
Thyegaraya Nagar Teynampet. It came out
for the first time on September 11, 1934.
What name did the two suggest?
