| Hint | Initials | City | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital of India | ND | New Delhi | 100%
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| Bollywood movies come from here | M | Mumbai | 98%
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| Mother Teresa lived in this city near the Bangladesh border | K | Kolkata | 85%
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| Location of the Taj Mahal | A | Agra | 79%
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| Formerly known as Madras | C | Chennai | 79%
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| Located on the Deccan Plateau, it is known as the "Silicon Valley" of India | B | Bangalore | 73%
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| This Telangana megacity shares its name with a large Pakistani city | H | Hyderabad | 68%
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| The largest city in Gujarat, it is home to the world's largest cricket stadium | A | Ahmedabad | 62%
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| This largest city in Goa is named for a Portuguese explorer | VDG | Vasco da Gama | 57%
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| Located about 100 km from the above, this city is known as the "Oxford of the East" | P | Pune | 54%
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| Namesake of a famous type of tea | D | Darjeeling | 43%
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| This city on the banks of the Ganges is the holiest in Hinduism | V | Varanasi | 42%
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| At least 4,000 people died here in 1984 after an industrial gas leak | B | Bhopal | 39%
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| This "Blue City" is the namesake of a type of horse-riding trousers | J | Jodhpur | 36%
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| City in southeast India which was owned by France until 1962 | P | Pondicherry | 34%
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| Ancient capital of the Magadh, Maurya, and Gupta empires | P | Patna | 28%
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| Site of a massacre by the British. Vividly presented in the 1982 movie "Gandhi". | A | Amritsar | 27%
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| This port city of Kerala was an important spice trading center | K | Kochi | 27%
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| Largest city on the Andaman Islands | PB | Port Blair | 26%
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| This town set a record when it received 9.3 meters of rain in a single month | C | Cherrapunji | 13%
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