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Kolkata: A Quiz on the City of Joy

Test your knowledge about Kolkata, its history, culture, and key facts with this engaging quiz.

#Kolkata #Indian History #Cultural Festivals #Geography #World War II

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2 [28] During the War, millions starved to death during the ________, caused by a combination of military, administrative and natural factors.

3 Other minorities such as ________, Buddhist, Jews and Zoroastrian constitute the rest of the city's population.

4 Which of the following titles did Kolkata have?

5 What is the native name for Kolkata?

6 Kolkata is India's only city to have a tram network, operated by ________.

7 [33] Over the 1960s and 1970s, severe power shortages, strikes and a violent Marxist-Maoist movement — the ________ — damaged much of the city's infrastructure, leading to an economic stagnation.

8 What does the following picture show?  The Kolkata Book Fair, one of the largest book fairs in India.   Howrah Bridge, a major transport system.   VSNL tower of Tata Communications (previously known as VSNL), a major telecom service provider in India   The Indian Institute of Management, one of the best business schools in India.

9 Some of the cultural festivals are ________, Dover Lane music festival, Kolkata Film Festival and National Theatre Festival.

10 What is the total population of Kolkata?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Oriental Seminary, established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata.
  • the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall,Derbyshire.
  • the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew.
  • despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion.
  • a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata.
  • the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved.
  • the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at Cossipore, a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, is the oldest surviving factory in the Indian subcontinent.
  • when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages.
  • when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school.
  • tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India.
  • there is a plan to shift Kolkata's traditional wholesale market in Posta (pictured) to the newly developed New Town.
  • the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta.
  • a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830.
  • a proposed strategic road link through Bangladesh and its capital Dhaka will reduce the travel distance between the Indian cities of Agartala and Kolkata from 1,700 kms to 400 kms.
  • Bidhannagar College, a government college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation.
  • Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market.
  • Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company.
  • Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan, Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata.
  • human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal.
  • the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai got its name from Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata, whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount.
  • Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata, India.
  • Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘bioscope’ scene in Kolkata in 1902.
  • Rickard D. Gwydir, an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation.
  • Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges.
  • Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865.
  • Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor.
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