This thin lentil crepe dish started getting served alongside potato curry once the Portuguese introduced potatoes to Karnataka. The dish is served this way even today.
Masala dosa
Realizing that factory workers and miners would often tear their work clothes, especially around their pocket seams, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis created this iconic piece of clothing still available today.
Demin jeans
Wolframite is the primary ore of this metal.
Tungsten
This used to be Manmohan Singh's address.
7 RCR
This cottage cheese based sweet treat had the states of Odisha and West Bengal fighting to claim origin and ownership. Both Odisha and West Bengal have been given GIs for this sweet dish.
Roshogulla
Middlemen traders in central asia would sell clothes made from this fabric back to the origin country to generate an illusion of abundance and prevent monopoly on the fabric.
Silk
This striking blue mineral gemstone (zoisite) was first discovered in Tanzania.
Tanzanite
This somewhat powerful position in the United States comes with getting to live in the Naval Observatory in Washington DC.
Vice President of the US
This bread made with white flour, yeast, and yogurt in a charcoal fired clay oven was brought to northern India by the Persians and the Afghans.
Naan
French engineer Louis Réard created this new type of garment. He named it after the US testing site for atomic bombs in the Pacific because "it would cause an explosive, worl-changing reaction".
Bikini
This ore which contains mostly aluminium oxide, in a pure crystalline form, is prized as gemstones like rubies and sapphires. Name the ore.
Corrundum
The Primate of Italy resides in this palace.
The Papal Palace (Pope Palace)
In the Mahabharata, to test the suitability of Draupadi as a wife, Kunti challenges her to make food for all five of her children. But she only provided enough dough for one puri, and only one serving of potato mash. Draupadi still manages to feed a small serving of this popular dish to all five of her husbands, passing Kunti's test.
Gol Gappe
This luxurious colour dye was a mark of wealth in Roman society because it was worth three times its weight in gold. It was derived from the mucus of sea snails.
Tyrian purple
This gemstone, with a higher refractive index than diamond, was made on earth by meteor impacts generating crystalline silicon carbide.
Moissanite
This architectural style, started by Le Corbusier, uses raw and exposed concrete designs.
Brutalism