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100

What is the National animal and National Bird of India?

(You get the point only when both are correct)

National Animal - Tiger

National bird - Peacock

100

How many alphabets in tamil?

247

12 Uyir Ezhuthu

18 Consonants

12*18 Uyirmei Ezhuthu = 216

1 Ayutha Ezhuthu


100

How are elder women commonly called in Chettiar household

Achi

100

How many stars in US flag?

50 stars 

100

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

Lunch and Dinner :) 

200

How many states and union territories are there in India?

28 states and 8 union territories

States and Capitals

  • Andhra Pradesh(Amaravati)

  • Arunachal Pradesh(Itanagar)

  • Assam(Dispur)

  • Bihar(Patna)

  • Chhattisgarh(Raipur)

  • Goa(Panaji)

  • Gujarat(Gandhinagar)

  • Haryana(Chandigarh)

  • Himachal Pradesh(Shimla)

  • Jharkhand(Ranchi)

  • Karnataka(Bangalore)

  • Kerala(Thiruvananthapuram)

  • Madhya Pradesh(Bhopal)

  • Maharashtra(Mumbai)

  • Manipur(Imphal)

  • Meghalaya(Shillong)

  • Mizoram(Aizawl)

  • Nagaland(Kohima)

  • Odisha(Bhubaneshwar)

  • Punjab(Chandigarh)

  • Rajasthan(Jaipur)

  • Sikkim(Gangtok)

  • Tamil Nadu(Chennai)

  • Telangana(Hyderabad)

  • Tripura(Agartala)

  • Uttarakhand(Dehradun)

  • Uttar Pradesh(Lucknow)

  • West Bengal(Kolkata)

Union Territories

  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands(Port Blair)

  • Chandigarh(Chandigarh)

  • Dadra and Nagar Haveli and
    Daman & Diu(Daman)

  • The Government of NCT of Delhi(Delhi)

  • Jammu & Kashmir
    (Srinagar-S*, Jammu-W*)

  • Ladakh(Leh)

  • Lakshadweep(Kavaratti)

  • Puducherry(Puducherry)

* S (Summer) and * W (Winter)

200

How many Thirukurals did Thiruvalluvar write?

1330

200

Name any 5 Chettinad villages that end in 'Patti'

Avanipatti 

Kandavarayanpatti 

Kadiapatti

Kilasivalpatti

Koppanapatti

Kuruvikondanpatti 

 Madaguppatti 

Mahibalanpatti 

Mithalaipatti 

Nachundupatti 

Nemathanpatti 

Panayapatti 

Pudupatti

Sirukudalpatti  

Thenipatti 

Ulagampatti 

Valayapatti 

Vegupatti 

Veendhampatti

200

Largest state in US

Alaska

200

 If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?


Wet! 

300

Who was the first president of India?

Dr.Rajendra Prasad

When India became a republic in 1950, Dr. Prasad was elected the President of the Constituent Assembly and went on to become the longest-serving head of state for 12 years. 


300

What is the world's oldest working dam?

Double points if you tell who built it!

Kallanai Dam

The Great Karikalan Cholan 

The dam was originally built by King Karikalan of the Chola Dynasty in c. 100 – c. 150 CE. It is located on the river in Thanjavur district, exactly 14 km from the city of Tiruchirappalli and 45 km from the city of Thanjavur.

300

Name all your team member's ooru (Our native chettinad village)Points will be given only if all are correct

Respective parents will confirm :)

300

Smallest state in US

Rhode Island

300

கண்ணால் பார்க்கலாம் கையால் பிடிக்கமுடியாது அது என்ன?

You can see, but cant catch. what is it?

Shadow

400

Who wrote the Indian National Anthem?

Rabindranath Tagore

The song Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bangla by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of India on January 24, 1950.

400

Tell a 'verb' (action word) in tamil and all the 3 tenses

100 points for the action word

300 for the tenses

400

What is the name of the special thing that we light and eat on the pillayar nombu function?

Ilai

400

Who is the 45th president of USA

Donald Trump

400

தொட்டால் மணக்கும் சுவைத்தால் புளிக்கும் அது என்ன? 

Lemon

500

Name one Nobel prize winner with an Indian origin



  • Ronald Ross, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1902)
  • Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
  • Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
  • C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
  • Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
  • Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
  • Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
  • 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Prize for Peace (1989)
  • Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)
  • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
  • Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
  • Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)

Two of the Nobel laureates (Tagore and Raman) were citizens of British India at the time they were awarded while two also were of foreign origin (Ross and Kipling). Three of the laureates were citizens of the Republic of India (Mother Teresa, Sen, and Satyarthi) and four were Indian by birth (Khorana, Chandrasekhar, Ramakrishnan, and Banerjee) but subsequently non-citizens of India.

500

யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்...

This is a famous line from purananooru. What does it mean? 

All the places on earth are our town and all the people are our relatives (We all evolved from same ancestors..)

500

Name all your team members kovil?

Double points if you name the main deities in any of your temple

Parents to confirm.

There are 9 Nagara Kovil

1)Vairavan Kovil (Valarolinathar & Vadivudaiammai)

2)Ilayathankudi (Kailasanathar & Nitya kalyani amman)

3) Mathur (Ainotreeshwarar & Periyanayaki)

4) Iraniyur (Aatkondanathar & Sivapuram devi )

5) Pillayarpatti (Karpaga Vinayagar
Marutheeswarar & Vadamalar mangai amman; Thiruveesar & Sivakami amman; Senchadeswarar & Soundara Nayaga amman )

6) Soorakudi (Desikanathar & Avudaiya nayaki)

7) Illupaikudi (Thanthondreeswarar & Soundaranayaki)

8) Nemam (Jayam Konda Soleeswarar & Sowndaranayaki Amman)

9) Velankudi (Kandeeswarar & Kamatchi amman)

500

How many countries in North American continent

23

500

பற்கள் இருக்கும் கடிக்கமாட்டான் அவன் யார்?

Comb