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.

¶How many streetlights does the City  have?
o77,000   o57,800 o1,50,500                                                                 

·What was the area of Bangalore in 1941?
o101 sq kms o61 sq kms o200 sq kms

¸Which organisation, related to the silk industry, was  established in the City in 1912?
oGovernment Weaving Institute oGovernment Silk Factory oGovernment Sericulture Organisation

¹Where is the Kitturu Rani Chennamma playground located?
oSrinagaroIndiranagar oJayanagar

ºFor how many years has the Sheshadripuram Rama Seva Samithi been conducting the annual music festival at Sheshadripuram College?
o35 o50 o59

»Name the orphanage that was set up in 1892 on Dickenson Road?
oMuslim OrphanageoLittle sisters of the PooroAshakta Poshaka Sabha

¼In which year did the porcelain factory, near IISc, come into being?
o1950 o1947 o1932

½Which street was called ‘Muttyalapete’ in the later half of the 19th century?
oArcot Srinivasachar Street oRangaswamy Temple Street oGundopanth Street
¾Behind the road of which church is the Stock Exchange Towers  building situated?
oSilver Jubilee Park Road oJayachamarajendra Road oChinmaya Mission Hospital Road
¿In which year did the NCERT start its branch in Bangalore?

o963–64 o1973–74 o1983–84

 Answers: 1,50,500; 61 sq kms; Government Weaving Institute; Jayanagar; 59; Muslim Orphanage; 1932; Rangaswamy Temple Street; Jayachamarajendra Road; 1973–74.