🗺️ Geography 🗺️
This mountain range forms the Northern border of South Asia
What are the Himalayas?
The winner of Miss World 2000; the third-highest paid actress in India
Who is Priyanka Chopra Jonas?
South Asian clarified butter
What is ghee?
The current Prime Minister of India
Who is Narendra Modi??
The number of players on a typical cricket team
11
This South Asian country is known as “Land of Mount Everest”
What is Nepal?
This American hip hop star was featured on the remix of Punjabi MC’s 2003 hit “Mundian to Bach Ke”
Jay-Z
This vegetable is required in creating the dish “Saag (palak) Paneer”
What is Spinach?
The year in which the Partition happened
What is 1947?
The two countries in South Asia that primarily practice Islam
Pakistan and Bangladesh
A seasonal shift in wind directions that is prevalent across South Asia
What are monsoons?
This popular South Asian movie entails 3 college students that venture together
3 Idiots
This spice blend, which is used in a wide variety of South Asian dishes, usually contains cardamom, cumin and other spices.
What is Garam Masala?
The monopolistic trading company that succeeded across South Asia for nearly 300 years.
What is the British East India Company?
Three countries of South Asia that are landlocked
Afghanistan, Bhutan and Nepal
The holy river of Hinduism, flowing across Northern India and emptying in the Bay of Bengal
What is the Ganges River?
Freddy Mercury has heritage from this state in India (bonus points for city!)
Bulsar (Valsad),Gujarat
The name for this style of cooking South Asian food comes from the type of oven in which it is cooked.
What is a tandoor (tandoori chicken?)
This South Asian country’s major cities include Colombo, Kandy, and Negombo
What is Sri Lanka?
The national language of Bhutan
Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
The largest fertile plain in the world, which also happens to be the most densely populated region of India
What is the Indo-Gangetic Plain (Northern Plain)?
Saffron is produced in which territory of the Indian subcontinent?
What is Jammu and Kashmir?
Under which succession of rulers (dynasty) did the Indian subcontinent first become a political unit?
What is the Mauryan Dynasty?
The three linguistic groups of South Asia
Iranic, Dravidian, and Indo-Aryan