Science
This is the closest star to Earth
What is the sun?
This is the tallest mountain in the world, measured from sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
This Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal in Agra in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Who is Shah Jahan?
What has hands but cannot clap?
What is a clock?
This SI base unit measures electric current.
What is Ampere?
This is the most widely spoken native language in the world by number of speakers.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
Founded by Chandragupta Maurya, this ancient Indian empire reached its greatest extent under his grandson, who later embraced Buddhism after the bloody conquest of Kalinga.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
What can travel all around the world while staying in the same corner?
What is a stamp?
This massless particle carries the electromagnetic force & is a basic packet of light
What is a photon?
This sea is unique for having no land borders at all, defined instead entirely by ocean currents in the North Atlantic.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
This 1857 uprising against East India Company rule began with sepoys in Meerut and is often called India's First War of Independence.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says 'thank you' and calmly walks out. Why?
What is the man had the hiccups and the shock cured him?
Discovered via distant supernovae in 1998, this finding showed the universe's expansion is accelerating, driven by a mysterious force making up roughly 68% of the universe
What is Dark Energy?
This is the only country in the world with a national flag that isn't rectangular.
What is Nepal?
In this 1919 event, British troops under General Dyer opened fire on an unarmed crowd gathered at a walled garden in Amritsar, killing hundreds and galvanizing the independence movement.
What is the Jallianwallah Baug Massacre?
Two fathers and two sons go fishing together. Each person catches exactly one fish, yet only three fish are caught in total. How is this possible?
What is there are only three people — a grandfather, his son, and his grandson?
Formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, this principle states you cannot simultaneously know a particle's exact position and momentum.
What is the uncertainity principle?
This landlocked African kingdom renamed itself from Swaziland to mark 50 years of independence in 2018.
What is Eswatini?
In 326 BCE, on the banks of the Jhelum River, Alexander the Great fought this fierce Indian king, who impressed him so much despite defeat that Alexander let him keep his kingdom.
Who is King Porus?
A man is looking at a portrait. Someone asks whose picture it is. He replies: 'Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son.' Whose portrait is he looking at?
What is his own son's portrait?