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Which two IPL franchises are tied for the most titles, with 5 each, as of 2025?
Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings
This Indian food app launched in 2008 as "Foodiebay" before being renamed two years later to dodge a naming clash with eBay.
Zomato
Which chocolate brand's iconic ad showed a girl running onto a cricket pitch to hug her brother after an Indian win — and what year did that ad first air?
Cadbury Dairy Milk, 1994
This English food word for a spiced sauce dish comes from the Tamil word "kari" — what's the word?
Curry
A train travels at 60 km/h. How long will it take to cover 210 km?
3.5 hours
Who bowled the very first hat-trick in IPL history, back in the 2008 season?
Lakshmipathy Balaji (for Chennai Super Kings)
Before it became Ola, this ride-hailing company (founded 2010, Mumbai, by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati) first operated under what near-identical name?
OlaCabs
On Orkut, public messages left on your profile wall were called "Scraps" — what was the name of the feature where people could write permanent, curated reviews of you on your profile page?
Testimonials
This English word for a hair-washing product comes from the Hindi word "champo," meaning to press or massage — what's the word?
Shampoo
Bengaluru to Chennai is roughly 350 km by road. If you drive the first half at 70 km/h and the second half at 50 km/h (traffic near Chennai), roughly how long does the whole trip take?
~2.5 hrs + 3.5 hrs = ~6 hours
Add these jersey numbers: Sachin + Dhoni + Kohli + Rohit + Smriti Mandhana
98
This messaging app's founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, were both personally rejected for jobs at Facebook — which then acquired their company in 2014. For roughly how much?
WhatsApp, for about $19 billion
Name the classic pre-installed Nokia phone game, and the specific Nokia model (the best-selling phone of all time) it's most associated with.
Snake, on the Nokia 3310
Ludo is a British adaptation of an ancient Indian game once played by Mughal emperors on giant courtyards, using their own courtiers as living playing pieces. Name the original game, and roughly which Mughal emperor is most associated with playing it at scale.
Pachisi; Akbar (who reportedly built a giant Pachisi court at Fatehpur Sikri)
A Delhi–Mumbai flight covers about 1150 km at a cruising speed of ~800 km/h, but taxi + takeoff + landing typically adds 30–40 extra minutes beyond pure cruise time. What's the usual total scheduled flight time?
~2 hours 10–15 minutes
In 2024 T20 World Cup final, who bowled the last over from India?
Hardik Pandya
In 2005, this now-massive video platform was originally built as a video dating site with the actual slogan "Tune In, Hook Up" — and its very first uploaded video, once the dating idea flopped, featured what?
YouTube; the first video was "Me at the zoo," showing elephants
Demonetisation in November 2016 scrapped the ₹500 and ₹1000 notes overnight. What brand-new denomination note was introduced in the same move, and what was the ₹500 note's older, discontinued color scheme?
₹2000 note introduced; the old ₹500 note was a stone-grey/violet color scheme
Sanskrit/Hindi gave English the word "jungle" (from "jangal") — but the original word didn't mean forest at all. What did it actually describe?
Wasteland or uncultivated, rough land — not specifically forest
Sound travels at about 343 m/s and light is effectively instant. You see lightning and hear the thunder 9 seconds later. Roughly how far away, in km, did it strike?
~3 km (343 × 9 ≈ 3087 m)
India won their first-ever ICC trophy under Dhoni's captaincy — the 2007 T20 World Cup — defending a low total against Pakistan. Name the part-time bowler who bowled the last, nerve-wracking over, and the Pakistani batsman whose scoop shot got him out.
Joginder Sharma bowled the over; Misbah-ul-Haq was the batsman dismissed
Before it had its current name, this search engine was a Stanford research project called "BackRub," referencing what specific technical concept the algorithm was built around?
Google; BackRub referred to analyzing "backlinks" between web pages
India's 2016 GST rollout replaced how many separate indirect taxes (central and state combined, roughly), and on what date at midnight did it officially launch, marked by a special Parliament session?
It subsumed around 17 different taxes; it launched on the night of 30 June–1 July 2017
The word "pyjama" (English "pajamas") comes from a Persian/Hindi/Urdu compound word literally meaning "leg garment." What are the two root words that make it up?
"Pai/pa" (leg) + "jama" (garment/clothing)
Two friends start walking towards each other from two towns 84 km apart. One walks at 5 km/h and starts on time; the other walks at 7 km/h but starts 1 hour late. How long after the first friend starts will they meet?
~7.6 hours after the first friend starts (first friend covers 5 km in the head-start hour, leaving 79 km at a combined 12 km/h = ~6.6 hrs more, so ~7.6 hrs total from the first friend's start)