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Starbucks, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and IBM have this in common.
What are CEO's who are Indian immigrants.
100
In 1608, this company docked its first ships on the shores of Western India in Gujarat.
What is East India Company?
100
This form of processed butter is the the most common ingredient in Indian cooking.
What is Ghee?
Clarified butter, is used to flavor most dishes.
Also good for frying as its smoke point is higher than most oils.
100
This bronze age civilization stretched across northwest India, Pakistan, and northeast Afghanistan.
What is the Indus valley civilization?
100
This publicly traded "workflow management" platform company name literally translates in English as "Yoga Pose"
What is ASANA?
200
Much to Churchill's chagrin, this US President advocated for India's Independence.
Who is Frankin D. Roosevelt?
200
This Indian-born British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author known for hunting man-eating tigers and leopards.
Who is Jim Corbett?
200
World's most popular sport after Football(Soccer) with 2.5 billion fans.
What is Cricket?
200
Popular culinary dishes like biryani, kebabs and naan bread were introduced by these invaders of India.
Who are the Mughals?
This also popularly known as Mughlai cuisine
200
This city in India competes with Bangalore for the crown of India's IT capital.
What is Hyderabad?
A city I grew up where everyone wants to be an engineer :)
300
"Sisters and brothers of America!" was his salutation in his speech at the Parliament of World Religions hosted by the City of Chicago.
Who is Vivekananda?
Called Swami Vivekananda. The venue was the World's Congress Auxillary Building and now the Art Institute of Chicago.
300
The French colony in India, also known as "The French Riviera of the East".
What is Pondicherry?
300
This Indian State was an inspiration for the name of the album by this group who did not even visit India. It's song's lyrics open with "Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face."
What is Kashmir?
By Led Zeppelin
300
Indian mathematician credited for his contributions to the discovery of zero and pi.
Who is Aryabhata?
476-550 CE
300
India's 2023 mission's landing spot on Chandra.
What is the Lunar South Pole?
400
This famous polymath from India visited UIUC in 1912 a year before he was recognized with the highest honor in his field.
Who is Rabindranath Tagore?
He revisited UIUC in 1916.
400
The last colonial empire to relinquish their claim to Indian territories.
Who is Portugal?
In 1961, 14 yrs after Independence from the British, Indian Armed forces took military action to force Portugal to give up their control of GOA.
400
Nick Jonas married up!!
Who is Priyanka Chopra?
400
The oldest continually inhabited city in India
What is Varanasi?
Since 1200 BC
400
This company is among the top 5 largest in terms of number of employees. The parent group owns Jaguar, Land Rover, and Tetley Tea.
What is TATA Consultancy Services (TCS)?
500
Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the 55th Grammy Awards and a compadre/guru of George Harrison of the Beatles.
Who is Ravishankar?
500
Boston Tea Party inspired civil disobedience movement of India.
Salt March
Organized by Mahatma Gandhi
500
More popular than Tom Cruise.
Who is Shah Rukh Khan?
According to a popularity survey, 3.2 billion people around the world know Khan, more than who know Tom Cruise.
500
The 10th-century built Hindu temple attracts more visitors than Rome or Mecca (an average of 30,000 visitors who donate $6mi per day) is located in this city.
Tirupathi
Venkateshwara temple. It is common to see "Venkat" in the names of South Indians
500
He is considered the pioneer of powerful statistical methods that underpin modern scientific data analyses.
Who is C.R. Rao
He won the International Prize for Statistics (equivalent to the Nobel Prize).