Culture
Yao Ming played for this NBA team
Houston Rockets
Kingdom landlocked by South Africa
Lesotho
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India's national bird
Peacock
Brazil's National Cocktail
Caipirinha
Length of the Great Wall of China (within 2,000 miles)
13,171 miles
Most recent country to join BRICS
South Africa, which joined in 2010
Daily show host before Trevor Noah
Jon Stewart
One of the main languages in India and Pakistan with over 113 million speakers, this language starts with P
Punjabi
The name of the mountain on which the Christ the Redeemer statue sits
Mount Corcovado
Name 3 ancient Chinese dynasties
Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Qin, Jin, Sui, Tang, Liao, Ming, Qing
Number of World Cups Brazil has won
5
The first South African to win an Oscar, this actress is known for her role in thrillers/suspenseful films
Oscar Pistorius
What northernmost region of India was known by the Ancient Greeks as Kasperia and eventually became an important center of Hinduism and Buddhism?
Kashmir
Year Narendra Modi was elected as Prime Minister
2014
Moniker used by Russian athletes at the Olympics
ROC (Russian Olympic Committee)
Name the brothers in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha (Smerdyakov as the fourth brother)
Countries that border Russia
Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine
Politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva replaced in the 2022 Presidential election
Jair Bolsonaro
China is home to almost half of the world's population of this animal
Pigs