Apart from India, this is the only other country in the world that grows its own native tea plant
What is China?
100
India first competed in the Olympic Games in 1900. That year, Norman Pritchard (born in Calcutta) won India's first 2 medals in this event.
What is track & field?
100
9 people died every day in 2015 while commuting in local trains of this city in India
What is Mumbai?
100
India is tied with this country for the most public holidays in the world. Both countries get 18 paid days off each year.
What is Colombia?
100
11% of the world's supply of this precious metal is held by Indian housewives.
What is gold?
(Fun fact: this is more than the reserves of the US, IMF, Switzerland & Germany put together)
200
This country is the world's largest importer of Indian coffee
What is Italy?
200
India has won a total of 9 gold medals at the Olympics. 1 of them was in Shooting. The other 8 were in this sport.
What is field hockey?
200
The world's biggest family lives in India. A man has 94 children and this many wives.
What is 40?
(Source: Wikipedia, Name: Ziona Chana)
200
Only 2% of people in India identify as having this religious preference
What is atheism?
200
A land dispute between India and Bangladesh was solved by this natural phenomenon when the island in dispute disappeared.
What is global warming?
300
This country is the world's largest importer of Indian teas
What is Russia?
300
This infrastructure arm of the Indian government is the world's largest civilian employer - with 16M workers
What is the Indian railways?
300
This airline in India only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter & save USD $500K / year in fuel.
What is Go Air?
300
This now-national bird of India was originally bred for food
What is the peacock?
300
Gandhi was a native speaker of this Indian language
What is Gujarati?
400
Fruits and honey were used as sweeteners in Indian food before this country introduced refined sugar.
What is Portugal?
400
Narayana Murthy was a self-proclaimed socialist, but during his visit to Bulgaria, he was arrested & put in jail for talking against the Bulgarian government. His experience pulled him towards capitalism & he learned that entrepreneurship & job creation ins the way to alleviate poverty. He went on to found this tech company.
What is Infosys?
400
Breathing the air in Mumbai for just one day on Diwali is the equivalent of smoking this many cigarettes every day for 7 days.
What is 100?
(Source: Maharashtra Pollution Control Board)
400
India is one of 5 countries in the world that have Braille-like markings on them for the blind. These are the other 4.
(100pts for each correct response)
What are Canada, Mexico, Russia & Israel?
400
The name 'India' is a corruption of the word 'Sindhu'. Because neighboring Persians & Arabs pronounced 's' as 'h', it became the land Hindu. These European people then started calling that 'Indus'.
Who are the Greeks?
500
Chicken Tikka Masala is actually not an Indian dish. It was invented in this country
What is Scotland?
500
India has only one military base outside its territory. It's in this country.
What is Tajikistan?
500
There is so much corruption in India that there are 2.5M currency notes of this amount circulating the country. They're used by angry citizens to "pay" in protest, the government functionaries who solicit bribes.
What is Zero Rupee value?
500
India has the lowest meat consumption per person in the world; This small European country eats the most meat per capita.
What is Luxembourg?
500
After 21 years of operations in India, this company announced that it will stop selling cars in India by the end of 2017.