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Quiz on the Movie 'Calcutta'

Test your knowledge about the cast of the classic movie 'Calcutta' with this engaging quiz.

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1 Who played Inspector Kendricks in the movie Calcutta?

2 Who played Bill Cunningham in the movie Calcutta?

3 Who played Eric Lasser in the movie Calcutta?

4 Who played Mul Raj Malik in the movie Calcutta?

5 What role did Paul Singh play in the movie Calcutta?

6 Who played Pedro Blake in the movie Calcutta?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons.
  • the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteeth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour.
  • the Maratha Ditch was excavated around Calcutta, India, as a protection against attacks by Marathas, who, however, never attacked.
  • the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison.
  • the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme.
  • the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873.
  • the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India.
  • one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck.
  • Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries.
  • Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi.
  • Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835.
  • Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur, that ultimately merged to become Calcutta.
  • it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries.
  • construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India.
  • Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta.
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