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Exploring Mumbai: A Quiz on the City’s Culture and History

Test your knowledge about Mumbai's culture, history, transportation, and demographics through this engaging quiz!

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1 What does the following picture show?  Nariman Point   Kanheri Caves served as a centre of Buddhism in Western India during ancient times   Bollywood is based in Mumbai.   Mumbai consists of two revenue districts

2 The city also houses India's Hindi film and television industry, known as ________.

3 [322] Interest in Formula One racing has been rising in recent years,[323] and in 2008, the ________ F1 team car was unveiled in Mumbai.

4 "Population and Employment profile of Mumbai Metropolitan Region" (________).Office Open XMLHTMLOpenDocumentPortable Document Format

5 [55] In 1687, the British East India Company transferred its headquarters from ________ to Bombay.

6 [171] Taxis and rickshaws in Mumbai are required by law to run on ________,[172] and are a convenient, economical, and easily available means of transport.

7 [46] Some of the oldest Catholic churches in the city such as the St. Michael's Church at Mahim (1534),[47] St. John the Baptist Church at ________ (1579),[48] St.

8 Which of the following titles did Mumbai have?

9 What does the following picture show?  A street in Dharavi, second largest slums in Asia   A BEST Starbus. BEST buses carry a total of 4.5 million passengers daily   The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly known as Victoria Terminus, is the headquarters of the Central Railway and a UNESCO World Heritage Site   The Elephanta Caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site, feature rock-cut Shaivistic statues.

10 What is the metropolitan population of Mumbai?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690.
  • the Prince of Wales Museum (pictured), Mumbai, was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital in the First World War.
  • the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea.
  • the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838.
  • the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
  • the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions.
  • within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ, Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579.
  • the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence at the Government Law School in Bombay was established in 1855 to honour judge Thomas Erskine Perry.
  • the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
  • the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India's only surviving opera house.
  • the recent massive flooding in Mumbai could have been avoided if the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System.
  • the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai.
  • Ruparel College in Mumbai, India boasts nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai among its alumni.
  • Jinnah House was the Mumbai residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and is the centre of a property dispute.
  • Bambaiya Hindi, a pidgin used in Mumbai, is a combination of English, Marathi, Gujarati and several other languages.
  • Indian trade unionist Dutta Samant led an estimated 200,000 workers on a year-long strike in 1982, causing the exodus of the textile mill industry from Mumbai.
  • Vihar Lake, the largest in Mumbai, was created in 1860.
  • Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.
  • in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year.
  • during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai, India.
  • devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008.
  • a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway, a major throughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs.
  • Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai.
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