All About Diwali
Despite variations, Diwali fundamentally represents the victory of light, truth and knowledge over these 3 opposite characteristics.
What are darkness, lies, and ignorance?
The name of the annual cultural festival at BITS Pilani.
What is Oasis?
New Jersey (fictional) icon Tony Soprano's favorite Italian Cold Cut?
What is Capicola/Gabagool?
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Assassination attempts were made on former President Donald Trump in these towns.
The most streamed song on Spotify in 2024 (so far).
What is Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter?
The traditional number of petals in this flower in Rangoli design varies amongst regions from 4 to 8 up to 24.
What is the lotus
Locations of the 5 BITS campuses.
What are Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa, Mumbai, and Dubai?
Based on the 2010 Census, this city/town in New Jersey has the highest percentage of Indians.
An extra 100 points if you get the second highest!
#1: What is Iselin, NJ? (37.4%)
#2: What is Plainsboro, NJ? (35.4%)
Current version of ChatGPT.
What is GPT-4o?
Highest grossing movie of 2024.
What is Inside Out 2?
Originally, 14 diyas were lit in a row to represent this time period
What is the 14 years of Rama's exile?
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The year the BITSAA sponsored their first scholarship and what is it for?
The last Republican president NJ voted for.
An extra 100 points for the year!
Who is George H.W. Bush?
What is 1988?
Former President Donald Trump was indicted in New York for this reason.
What is paying hush money to Stormy Daniels via Michael Cohen by calling it "Legal Fees"?
2024 sci-fi epic with a viral popcorn bucket.
What is Dune Part Two?
Gambling, a very popular tradition in northern India, can be traced back to these two deities playing dice.
Who are Shiva & Parvati?
One of the founders of BITAA compares the association to this classic rock song.
What is Hotel California?
You can get in anytime you like but you can never leave.
The first organized baseball game was played in this New Jersey city in 1864.
What is Hoboken, NJ?
The amount of value X (formerly Twitter) has lost since being acquired by Elon Musk.
What is $34.6B? (will accept anywhere from $30-35B)
It went from $44B to $9.4B as of 9/30/2024.
Artist who did the first Fortnite Festival from December 2023 to January 2024.
Who is The Weeknd?
In Tamil Nadu, "Thalia Deepavali" is a special once in a lifetime celebration for this group of people, where they are pampered by all their relatives.
Who are newlyweds celebrating their first Diwali together?
An extra 100 points if you can name the couple we have here!
The reason for the 1970 BITS Pilani student "revolution".
What is BITS Pilani converted to a GPA system from an average % system which put 4th year students at a disadvantage since the conversion was not in their favor/placed a ceiling on the highest GPA possible?
Name one of the two NJ governors that became President.
An extra 100 points if you get both!
Who is Grover Cleveland or Woodrow Wilson?
The 4 crimes charged against former NYC mayor Eric Adams (will consider 3 crimes an acceptable answer).
What are bribery, solicitation of contributions from foreign nationals, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud?
An extra 100 points if you can name the country he conspired with!
Number of minutes between the releases of Drake's Family Matters & Kendrick Lamar's Meet the Grahams during their highly publicized beef.
An extra 100 points if you can say the number of times Kendrick Lamar played Not Like Us at his Pop Out concert.
What is 20 minutes?
What is 6 times?