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.

¶Name the school established by Bishop Oldham in 1860?
oBaldwin Boys High School   oSt Germain’s High School oBishop Cotton’s High School

·In which year was the Mysore Circle of Posts and Telegraphs established?
o1948 o1956 o1960

¸Jewish cemetery is found in which extension?
oMudalapalaya oSultanpalaya  oGoripalaya

¹Approximately how many Parsees, belonging to 250 families  are residing in the City?
 o300 o700 o1100

ºWho was the Diwan of Mysore when for the first time; a master plan of Bangalore was prepared?
oV P Madhava Rao oMirza M Ismail  oP N Krishnamurthy

»In which year did the population of Bangalore cross 1 million mark?
o1951 o1961 o 1971

¼Which empire was conducting Dasara Sports?
oHoysala oRashtrakoota oVijayanagara

½What was the approximate cost of building M Chinnaswamy cricket Stadium?
o90 lakhs o1.97 crore o 2.05 crore

¾Name the 19.63 Kms rainwater valley found between Bangalore bus station and Bellandur tank?
oChallaghatta Valley  oKoramanagala Valley oVrishabhavati Valley

Whose short story collection of 365 stories was released in the Puttannachetty town hall recently?
oSundanamma  oPrema Bhat
oAnupama Niranjana




Answers: Baldwin Boy’s High School; 1956; Goripalya;700; V P Madhava Rao; 1961; Vijayanagar; 1. 97 Crore; Koramangala Valley; Prema Bhat.