Q 01/05

Which folk meaning of Bengaluru's name comes from a tale of a 12th-century king lost while hunting?

A) Fort of the four towers

B) Garden of the Deccan

C) Town of boiled beans

D) City of a thousand lakes

Answer · why

C) Town of boiled beans

Town of boiled beans is the popular reading of 'Benda-Kaal-uru', said to honour an old woman who fed that king, yet an 890 CE inscription at Begur alr...

Q 02/05

Which monument at the Vijayanagara ruins appears on India's ₹50 banknote?

A) Stone Chariot

B) Lotus Mahal

C) Elephant Stables

D) Queen's Bath

Answer · why

A) Stone Chariot

Stone Chariot is not a chariot at all but a shrine built like one, and it once held an image of Garuda.

Q 03/05

Which son of Hyder Ali was killed defending Srirangapatna against the British in 1799?

A) Chikka Devaraja

B) Tipu Sultan

C) Siraj ud-Daulah

D) Nizam Ali Khan

Answer · why

B) Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan owned a near life-size mechanical tiger mauling a European man, which the British seized in 1799 and carried off to London.

Q 04/05

Which crop is said to have begun in India with seven seeds a Sufi saint smuggled into Karnataka's hills?

A) Tea

B) Cardamom

C) Rubber

D) Coffee

Answer · why

D) Coffee

Coffee, in the legend, came from Baba Budan, who hid the seven beans in his beard on the way home from Yemen, and those hills are now called Baba Buda...

Q 05/05

Which Vijayapura tomb of Mohammad Adil Shah has a whispering gallery where the faintest sound carries across its dome?

A) Ibrahim Rauza

B) Bara Kaman

C) Gol Gumbaz

D) Charminar

Answer · why

C) Gol Gumbaz

Gol Gumbaz was still unfinished when Mohammad Adil Shah died, and after his death work on its decoration stopped.