Statistics for Cities of the Indian Subcontinent

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The home of the worlds largest film industry, Bollywood	Mumbai	99%
National Capital Territory	Delhi	94%
Formerly known as Madras	Chennai	88%
Taj Mahal	Agra	87%
Sri Lankan capital(s)	Colombo	84%
Capital of Afghanistan	Kabul	84%
City of Joy	Kolkata	84%
Located in the Buriganga River in the Bengal Delta	Dhaka	81%
2nd Largest city in the world, by population	Karachi	78%
Largest city of India's most developed state of Gujarat	Ahmedabad	77%
The Pink City	Jaipur	77%
Place of Islam	Islamabad	76%
Information Technology hub	Bangalore	74%
Known for its biryani (type of rice)	Hyderabad	74%
The Pearl of Punjab	Lahore	73%
Capital city with an elevation of 1400m	Kathmandu	70%
The Golden Temple	Amritsar	59%
Busiest sea port of Bangladesh	Chittagong	59%
Capital city with an elevation of 2320m	Thimphu	59%
Formerly known as Rangoon	Yangon	59%
One of Hinduism's holiest city	Varanasi	56%
Site of the world's worst industrial disaster	Bhopal	55%
City in Indian Kashmir	Srinagar	54%
Pathans of Pakistan	Peshawar	39%
Named after Mahatma Gandhi	Gandhinagar	36%
Balochistan's largest city	Quetta	36%
One of the world's fastest growing cities	Surat	36%
Name reminds you of candy	Kandy	34%
Manchester of Pakistan	Faisalabad	32%
City in the middle of Myanmar	Mandalay	30%
City of Sufis, in southern Pakistani Punjab	Multan	24%
English anagram for 'heart'	Herat	19%
Home of Sri Lankan Tamils	Jaffna	19%
Ancient Hindu Kingdom of Gandhara	Kandahar	16%
On the India-Bangladesh border	Rajshahi	6%
Uttar Pradesh-Nepal border	Nepalgunj	1%