Geography
Science
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India
The Amazing USA
100
This large body of water is located in Canada, and was found by a Dutch explorer in 1610.
What is the Hudson Bay?
100
This man, known for his incomplete Theory of Everything, was the one who theorized the Big Bang in the first place, by thinking about the possibility of the universe starting out as a singularity.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
100
This person is the main character of one of the most widely watched action movie series of all time. It is about a British spy; some of the best movies being The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and License to Kill. The spy has been acted by very famous actors like Roger Moore, Daniel Craig, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.
Who is James Bond?
100
This city is the hottest and most humid city in Southern India, if not all of India. It is located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. It is also home to the only ATP tournament in India.
What is Chennai?
100
What was the political party formed after the fall of the Federalist party. Hint: it is something people wear to protect their scalps. ;)
What is the Whig Party?
200
This country, located directly south of Eritrea, has a US military base described by Frederick Forsyth in his book, The Kill List.
What is Djibouti?
200
This planet is a gas giant. Its density is so small, that if one had a bath tub big enough and put this planet in in, the planet would float. The Earth is more dense. It has two interesting moons, Titan and Enceladus, which are theorized to harbor microscopic life.
What is Saturn?
200
This movie trilogy is set in China. The main characters are five martial arts animals and one fat panda. They are taught martial arts by one Master Shifu, voiced by Dustin Hoffman and the panda, Po, is voiced by Jack Black. DreamWorks Animation has recently made a second sequel to the original movie.
What is Kung Fu Panda?
200
This is the famous 241 mile trek by Mahatma Gandhi and his followers from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt.
What is the Dandi March?
200
This man was Thomas Jefferson's vice-presidential candidate during the election of 1800; the vote went to the House to break a tie between Jefferson and this man. He also happened to kill Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey.
Who is Aaron Burr?
300
The Mariana Trench, located beneath this island country, is situated between the convergence of the Pacific and Philippine plates.
What is Guam?
300
The Large Hadron Collider, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is a gigantic particle accelerator that smashes subatomic particles at high speeds. In 2013, the collision of two protons was so intense, that a new particle was identified. This particle is said to be on e of the most fundamental particles, as it is theorized to give mass to other particles.
What is the Higgs Boson?
300
This is a movie about World War II. The movie was made four years after Alistair MacLean wrote the book in 1957. Today, it is one of Rajkamal Rao's favorite books.
What is The Guns of Navarone?
300
This is the national sport of India. Surprisingly, it's neither cricket, nor soccer.
What is field hockey?
300
This man was the leader of the Confederate States during the Civil War. His enemy was General Ulysses Grant.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
400
This country, one of the four Scandinavian countries is not only facing immigration problems, but is home to one of the largest game companies in the world, Supercell.
What is Finland?
400
There are two types of tectonic crusts. One is continental crust and the other is oceanic srust. Continental crust is 32 km thick and is made of mostly granite. Oceanic crust is only 8 km thick, but is much denser than continental crust because it's mostly made up of this igneous rock.
What is basalt?
400
This actor plays Tony Mendez in this action packed film about the American hostage crisis in Iran, during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. The man devises a plan to make a science-fiction movie and smuggle the embassy hostages out of Tehran. He is also the lead character in the movie, The Town.
Who is Ben Affleck?
400
This state/territory is the largest one in the nation. This state is home to one of the largest deserts in India, the Thar Desert. It is also the home of the Royals, if you know what I mean. (Hint: IPL) ;)
What is Rajasthan?
400
This man was the king of England/tyrant during the American Revolutionary War. He was a king who wanted to assert his power over the colonies and neglected American protests of taxation.
Who was King George III?
500
This mountain is the tallest mountain in Norway, located in the heart of the Oppland province and is 2,222 m in elevation.
What is Storebjorn?
500
This quantity is an important one in physics, especially rotational kinematics. It is a vector formed when a push or pull is applied to an object around an axis of rotation. The symbol for this quantity is tau, and is calculated by multiplying the force times the radius times the sin of the angle between the axis of rotation and the point of force.
What is torque?
500
This actress was picked by HBO to star in one of the recent thriller shows, which aired after the Paris attacks in 2015.
Who is Priyanka Chopra?
500
This is the wettest place on the planet. With an average rainfall of 467.4 inches, this usually flooded city is located in the southern part of Meghalaya.
What is Mawsynram?
500
This southern colony was created as a buffer between the rich Carolinas and Spanish-controlled Florida. It was a place for imprisoned debtors and criminals to pay off their debts by working in the farms.
What is Georgia?
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