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A vast South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks the Indian Ocean coastline – and history reaching back 5 millennia.
What is India?
In 1950 this country became a republic.
What is India?
A bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a field, at the center of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket.
What is Cricket?
Fried rolled pastries that are filled with all kinds of raw or cooked meats or vegetable.
What are spring rolls?
A series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China
What is the Great Wall of China?
The name of this country means “land of the pure”
What is Pakistan?
The four-year struggle involved sporadic but bloody armed conflict, internal Indonesian political and communal upheavals, and two major international diplomatic interventions with Dutch military forces.
What is the Indonesian National Revolution?
This person was born to Korean parents in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, Ontario, Canada. This person is most recognized for their role as Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy.
Who is Sandra Oh?
Japanese dish usually consisting of seafood or vegetables that have been battered and deep fried.
What is Tempura?
A walled palace within the citadel of the city of Huế, the former imperial capital of Vietnam
What is the Imperial City?
The world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods
What is China?
Two minor wars fought between China and Great Britain (primarily) over the opium trade in China. They took place during the middle of the 1800's near the end of the Qing Dynasty.
What were the Opium Wars?
It is played almost exclusively in the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic countries, and Mongolia. A team is composed of from 8 to 11 players who wear skates and use curved sticks to hit a ball.
What is Bandy?
Characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant spices and herbs generously used in the broth
What is Tom Yum?
It’s the country’s highest peak at 3776 meters. It’s considered one of Japan’s 3 sacred mountains, and summit hikes remain a popular activity.
What is Mount Fuji?
The only country in the world whose flag is hoisted upside down when the country is at war.
What is the Philippines?
The current monarch of Thailand, came to the throne in 1946 after the mysterious shooting death of his older brother. Since 1973, power has moved from military to civilian hands repeatedly.
Who is King Bhumibol Adulyadej?
This person was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to a Tamil Muslim family from Tamil Nadu, India. The first Asian-American actor to win a Golden Globe for acting in television.
Who is Aziz Ansari?
This is made using 32 spices and some of the health benefits includes: fight diseases, relieve pain and inflammation, reduce bloating, eliminate bad breath, and detoxify the body.
What is Garam Masala?
It was the main residence of the emperors of the Mughal dynasty for nearly 200 years and constructed in 1639 by the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as the palace of his fortified capital Shahjahanabad, it is named for its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone
What is The Red Fort?
The only Southeast Asian country that was never colonized by a European country
What is Thailand?
The time period when South Asia fell under direct control by the UK government, lasted until 1947
What is the British Raj?
Also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions.
What are cue sports?
Deep-fried crunchy golden egg noodles, green peppers, pea pods, bok choy, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, shrimp, Chinese roast pork (char siu), chicken, and beef, and is served in a thick sauce.
What is Chow mein?
A region of the Gobi Desert, and this area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs
What is the Flaming Cliffs?