This quiz is about our City.  About its culture, fairs and festivals, famous persons, natural resources, localities, roads and important dates.  Choose one of the three options and cross-check with answers below.

¶The annual festival of Infant Jesus is held every year on January 14. In which extension does this festival take place?
oRamamurthy Nagar
oVivekananda Nagar
oVivek Nagar

·In which year did the Police Training School start?
o1875 o1892 o1899

¸Who established two Dharmachhatras (free lodges) in Gavipuram (present Kempegowda Nagar) in 1856?
oMagaji Mesey Lakshmana oGopala Swamy Iyer o S Sajjan Rao

¹Approximately how may service centres for physically challenged persons are located in Bangalore?
o75 o100 o150

ºIn which year did the railway coach division merge with BEML?
o1964 o1965 o1969

»Where was the first electric receiving station called the ‘M’ station located?
oNear City Market oNear Anandarao Circle oNear Mayo Hall

¼What was the cost of building the administrative office of the Bangalore City Corporation in 1936?
o5 lakhs o3.5 lakhs o1.5 lakhs

½Next to which main road, did the corporation build the first public toilet?
oSilver Jubilee Park Road
oM G Road oChamarajpet Main Road

¾Name the Bangalore based sports women who won the world women’s billiards championship recently?
oChitra Magimairaj oAnitha Shetty oSunetra Koneri

¿What is the present name of Kodihalli Tank?
oTippasandra oMajestic o Timmasandra



Answers: Kuvempu; 64; Gautamapura; Canara Bank; Banashankari II Stage; Inquilab; 900 million litres; H V Venkatasubbiah; 1640; 1972.