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India invented this strategy board game around the 6th century AD — originally called Chaturanga — now played in over 600 million homes worldwide.  

What is Chess?

100

"Life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're gonna get." Tom Hanks delivered this in which 1994 Oscar winner?

What is Forrest Gump?

100

India's most exported street food — a crispy fermented lentil crepe — has made it from Chennai to London, Houston and beyond

What is Dosa?

100

NASA's Mission Control is in this Texas city — home to world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions

What is Houston?

100

Archaeologists found 3,000-year-old samples of this in Egyptian tombs — still perfectly edible, making it the only natural food that never spoils.

What is Honey?

200

his ancient city, just 30 miles from Mexico City and once the 6th largest in the world, was mysteriously abandoned 1,400 years ago — and we still don't know who built it.

What is Teotihuacan?

200

This Liverpool band — the best-selling music act in history with over 600 million records — split up in 1970, just 8 years after their first single.

What is Beatles?

200

This Mexican sauce contains over 20 ingredients including dried chilies AND chocolate, takes up to 3 days to  make, and its name comes from the Nahuatl word for "sauce." 

What is Mole?

200

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, scientists confirmed the existence of this particle —  nicknamed "The God Particle" — which gives all matter its mass.

What is Higgs Boson?

200

A baker's dozen equals this number - Medieval English bakers had fines for short-changing customers, you know

What is 13?