Indian Culture & History
This famous white marble mausoleum is located in Agra.
What is Taj Mahal?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This Indian flatbread is often cooked in a tandoor oven.
What is Naan?
This river flows through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
This vitamin is mainly produced when skin is exposed to sunlight.
What is Vitamin D?
India gained independence from this country in 1947.
What is United Kingdom?
This scientist developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Italian dish is made with layers of pasta, cheese, and sauce.
What is Lasagna?
What is the capital of North Dakota?
What is Bismark?
Jaipur is known by this colorful nickname.
What is The Pink City?
This emperor commissioned the construction of the Taj Mahal after the death of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Who was Shah Jahan?
The SI unit of electrical resistance is named after this German physicist.
What is the ohm?
This Japanese dish consists of lightly battered and deep-fried seafood or vegetables.
What is Tempura?
The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from this large Indonesian island.
What is Sumatra?
This Indian city is famous for its Charminar monument and Hyderabadi biryani.
What is Hyderabad?
This ancient Indian university, destroyed in the 12th century, was one of the world’s earliest centers of higher learning.
What was Nalanda University?
This process allows certain bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia usable by plants.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
Saffron, one of the world’s most expensive spices, comes from this part of the crocus flower.
What is the Sigma?
This African nation contains the ancient rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and has never been fully colonized by a European power.
What is Ethiopia?
This ancient Greek mathematician is credited with writing Elements, a foundational work in geometry.
Who was Euclid?
The 1857 Indian Rebellion began largely among these colonial soldiers employed by the British East India Company.
Who were sepoys?
In molecular biology, this operon in Escherichia coli is activated in the absence of lactose and regulated by a repressor protein.
What is the Lac Operon?
This French delicacy is traditionally made by force-feeding ducks or geese to enlarge their livers.
What is Foie gras?
This landlocked Central Asian country is bordered by five nations and contains the shrinking Aral Sea.
What is Kazakhstan?
This physicist developed the equations that unified electricity and magnetism into electromagnetism.
Who was James Clerk Maxwell?