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What is namaste?
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What is chess?
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What is Cashmere?
from the Hindi Kashmir β the region where the Cashmere goat was found
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What are spices?
India is known as the largest consumer and exporter of spices.
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What is Slumdog Millionaire?
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What is a Mongoose?
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What is yoga?
Double Jeopardy
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What is the game SNAKES & LADDERS?
Originally known as Moksha Patam, the board game of Snakes and Ladders was created in ancient India. The game was invented to teach lessons of morality. The ladder stood as a symbol of good deeds and snakes represented evil.
Many variants of the game evolved after it was imported to other places. In the USA, the game was introduced as Chutes and Ladders.
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What are mosques?
With more than 300,000 active mosques, India is home to the most number of mosques in the world. Even the Islamic nations have a lesser number of mosques in comparison to this.
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What is Lion?
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What is the philosophy, "Atithi Devo Bhav" meaning βthe guest is equivalent to god."
India has a long tradition of treating guests with the utmost respect.
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What is Ayurveda?
One of the earliest systems of medicine, Ayurveda originated in India during the Vedic era. The hymns of Atharva Veda describe diseases and medicinal plants.
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What is Chutney?
from the Hindi chatni meaning to lick and refering to a pickled condiment usually used with curries
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What are voters?
India is the worlds largest democracy.
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What is The Darjeeling Limited?
Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody play brothers traveling across India in a train in this 2007 film directed by Wes Anderson.
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What is a Bungalow?
from the Hindi bangla meaning houses built in the style of Bengal
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What is mining diamonds?
India was the only source of diamonds to the world until Brazil discovered diamonds in the early 1700s.
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What are these religions:
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism (+Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and others)
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What are One-Horned Rhinos?
According to the World Wide Fund β the rhino population has increased from 75 in 1905 to 3600 in 2020. India is famous for being home to the most number of one-horned rhinos with Assamβs Kaziranga National Park serving as a major habitat.
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What is RRR?
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What is Bangle?
This rigid, ornamental band, normally worn around the wrist, from the Hindi bangli, or glass bracelet. It first made its appearance in late 18th century. Bangle's Indian connection goes unnoticed because it rhymes with other quintessentially English/European-origin words, like dangle, mangle, angle.
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What is Bollywood?
In terms of the number of movies produced, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world. India produces 1,500 to 2,000 movies every year in Hindi and regional languages.
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What is silk?
India is the second-largest producer of natural silk in the world.
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What is rainfall?
A small town in Meghalaya is recognized as the worldβs wettest place on earth. It gets an average annual rainfall of 11,872 mm. That's nearly 40 ft!
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