Question: What city was the capital of India until December 1911?
Answer: Calcutta

Question: What is the name of the city formerly known as Calcutta?
Answer: Kolkata

Question: What is the name of the empire for which Delhi served as the political and financial capital from 1649 to 1857?
Answer: Mughal Empire

Question: In the early 1900s, the capital of the British Indian Empire was shifted from Calcutta to what city?
Answer: Delhi

Question: In what part of India is Delhi located?
Answer: the centre of northern India

Question: Who announced that the capital of India would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi?
Answer: George V

Question: On what date was it announced that the capital of India would be moved to Delhi?
Answer: 12 December 1911

Question: Who laid the foundation stone of New Delhi?
Answer: King George V and Queen Mary

Question: Who is responsible for designing large parts of New Delhi?
Answer: Edwin Lutyens

Question: On what date did inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi begin?
Answer: 10 February 1931

Question: Who rejected the proposals of Brodie and Lutyens?
Answer: the Viceroy

Question: Which site was eventually chosen by the Delhi Town Planning Committee?
Answer: the South site

Question: Raisina Hill lay directly opposite what religious site?
Answer: Dinapanah citadel

Question: The Rajpath was also known by what name?
Answer: King's Way

Question: Who designed the Parliament House of New Delhi?
Answer: Herbert Baker

Question: The construction of Connaught Place was completed in what year?
Answer: 1933

Question: On what hill did construction of Lutyen's Bungalow Zone begin?
Answer: Raisina Hill

Question: The Imperial Delhi Railway was built to transport workers and materials for how many years?
Answer: twenty years

Question: In what year did the Imperial Delhi Railway line begin operating?
Answer: 1924

Question: In what year did the New Delhi Railway Station open?
Answer: 1926

Question: A temporary secretariat building was built in New Delhi in what year?
Answer: 1912

Question: In what year what New Delhi inaugurated as the capital of India?
Answer: 1931

Question: Housing for employees was built in what area during the 1920s?
Answer: Gole Market area

Question: What was the name of the last residential area built by the British Raj?
Answer: Lodhi colony

Question: During what decade was the Lodhi colony built?
Answer: the 1940s

Question: In what year did India gain independence?
Answer: 1947

Question: In what year was Delhi converted into a union territory?
Answer: 1956

Question: What is the name of the act that caused the Union Territory of Delhi to become formally known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi?
Answer: The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act

Question: The enforcement of the legislation of the Constitution Act began in what year?
Answer: 1993

Question: In 1956, Delhi was converted into what type of territory?
Answer: a union territory

Question: In what decade did New Delhi first extend significantly from Lutyen's Delhi?
Answer: the 1950s

Question: What organization developed land to expand New Delhi in the 1950s?
Answer: the Central Public Works Department

Question: What was the name of the enclave created by the Central Public Works Department?
Answer: Chanakyapuri

Question: In which direction did Chanakyapuri extend from New Delhi?
Answer: southwest

Question: What was one use of the uses for the newly developed land of Chanakypuri?
Answer: residences of ambassadors

Question: What is the total area of New Delhi in square miles?
Answer: 16.5 sq mi

Question: On what plain is New Delhi located?
Answer: the Indo-Gangetic Plain

Question: The Delhi Ridge is also referred to by what name?
Answer: the Lungs of Delhi

Question: New Delhi is located on the floodplains of what river?
Answer: Yamuna River

Question: What seismic zone does New Delhi fall under?
Answer: seismic zone-IV

Question: What was the magnitude of the notable 2015 earthquake that shook New Delhi?
Answer: 5.4 magnitude

Question: A 4.7 magnitude earthquake that affected New Delhi occurred on what date?
Answer: 25 November 2007

Question: What was the magnitude of the earthquake that affected New Delhi on September 2011?
Answer: 4.2-magnitude

Question: How many earthquakes occurred on March 5, 2012?
Answer: twelve

Question: What is the geographical feature New Delhi lies on that is responsible for frequent earthquakes?
Answer: fault lines

Question: In what type of climate is New Delhi located?
Answer: subtropical climate

Question: Between which months do New Delhi's long summers last?
Answer: April to October

Question: When does the monsoon season occur in New Delhi?
Answer: the middle of the summer

Question: What is the annual mean temperature of New Delhi?
Answer: 25 °C (77 °F)

Question: What is the highest ever recorded temperature in New Delhi?
Answer: 49.1 °C (120.4 °F)

Question: What is New Delhi's rank in Mercer's 2015 quality of living survey?
Answer: 154

Question: What is the main cause of New Delhi's relatively low ranking in Mercer's quality of life survey?
Answer: bad air quality and pollution

Question: New Delhi was ranked as the world's worst polluted city by what organization?
Answer: The World Health Organization

Question: How many cities were tracked for pollution by the World Health Organization in 2014?
Answer: 1,600

Question: How many cities were studied in Mercer's 2015 quality of living survey?
Answer: 230

Question: In what season does New Delhi's air pollution worsen?
Answer: winter

Question: What method was introduced in December 2015 to reduce New Delhi's air pollution?
Answer: alternate-day travel

Question: New Delhi's alternate-day travel scheme allowed trucks to enter the city after what hour?
Answer: 11 p.m

Question: How long is the initial trial period for New Delhi's driving restriction scheme?
Answer: 15 days

Question: On what day of the week will travel remain unrestricted by New Delhi's alternate day driving scheme?
Answer: Sundays

Question: On what date did the Supreme Court of India enact restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to reduce pollution?
Answer: December 16, 2015

Question: The Supreme Court restricted registration of some vehicles with engines of 2000 cc and over until what date?
Answer: March 31, 2016

Question: All taxis in Delhi were ordered to switch to what type of fuel by March 1, 2016?
Answer: compressed natural gas

Question: Which transportation vehicles were banned from entering New Delhi?
Answer: vehicles that are more than 10 years old

Question: New restrictions on New Delhi's transportation system were enacted by the Supreme Court to accomplish what goal?
Answer: curb pollution

Question: New Delhi is the capital of what National Capital Territory?
Answer: Delhi

Question: What is the national capital of India?
Answer: New Delhi

Question: The local Government of Delhi and the Central Government of India jointly administer what city?
Answer: New Delhi

Question: What city is the official capital of the National Capital Territory of Delhi?
Answer: New Delhi

Question: What is the name of one government body that oversees the capital of New Delhi?
Answer: the Central Government of India

Question: The government structure of the New Delhi Municipal Council includes three members from what government body?
Answer: New Delhi's Legislative Assembly

Question: What government body is responsible for nominating five members to the New Delhi Municipal Council?
Answer: the central government

Question: What government official is responsible for nominating two members to the New Delhi Municipal Council?
Answer: Chief Minister of the NCT of Delhi

Question: The Chief Minister of what NCT is responsible for nominating two members to the New Delhi Municipal Council? 
Answer: NCT of Delhi

Question: What is the name of the government structure created for New Delhi that is comprised of ten representatives?
Answer: New Delhi Municipal Council