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INDIAMERICA
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Family history
100

What is Dabo's favorite food?

What are fresh royyallu?

100

Whose land are Amma, Naana, and Vindhya living on right now?

What is Muwekma Ohlone land?

100

What is the full form of AAV?

What is Adeno-Associated Virus?
100

Which two teams are the finalists for the Champions League 2020? 

Bonus point: What was the name of the failed breakaway football league that caused absolute chaos this April?

What are Manchester City and Chelsea?

Bonus answer: What is the Super League?

100

How long did Seetharamaiah thatha work in the sugar industry?


What are 41 years?

(from 1960-2001)


200

What is Kalpana Nainamma's favourite food?

What is Mamidikai pacchadi annam?

200

Glendale is the school both Safdar and I went to. But it is also the name of two cities in two different states in America. What are those two states?

What is California and Arizona?

200

What is the first disease (out of only 2) to be completely eradicated?



What is smallpox?

This was a result of widespread immunization and surveillance and is considered the greatest achievement in international public health.

200

What were the reforms that were passed by the British Parliament in 1909 that introduced separate electorates for Muslims in India?

What are the Morley-Minto reforms?

OR

What is the Indian Councils Act 1909?

200

After completing his diploma where did Pandurangaiah Thatha work for one year before joining the Palavoncha powerhouse?

What is the DBK Railway in Jaghadhalpur?

(went there after Vizag polytechnic, and after this he joined the powerhouse from 1969-2002).

Apparently Thatha also had side jobs selling cobra bondalu, doing vyavasam, contracting, amongst others. 

300

What is Seetharamaiah Thatha's favourite food?

What is Indian Mamidipandu?

300

Convert $20,000 into rupees. 

What is Rs. 14,00,000 or 14 lakh rupees?

300

What is a bacterial switch that was discovered by Jacques Monod in E. coli (in the 1940's), that completely relaunched the science of genetics?

What is the Lac operon?

300

What does the first in-human clinical trial using CRISPR aim to treat? 

What is sickle-cell anaemia?

300

What is the car number and model of the car that Dabo got stuck in on Sunday morning?

What is AP07 BL 0045, Mercedes Benz?

400

What is Pandurangaiah Thatha's favourite food?

What is Perugu Vada/Dahi Vada?

400

The 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee Cup had a historic EIGHT co-champions! How many of the eight people were Indian-American?

What are seven people?

400

How many people died during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic?

What is 20-50 million people?



400

def unknownfunction(question):

    if question == "Is Vindhya amazing?":

           return "Yes, duh!"

    else:

           return "Vindhya is amazing."

What will happen if I input the statement "Is Vindhya Amazing?" into this unknownfunction?

What is "Vindhya is amazing."

400

What were the three subjects Durgammaamma always came first in?

And what were the two subjects she did not like?

How many kilometers did Durgammaamma walk to school everyday when she was small?

What are Telugu, social studies, and science? And what are math and English?

What is 2km?

500

What is Durgammaamma's favourite food?

What is Pallathalikalu?

500

Our sinks in Marigold 25 and Lilac 33 were of a very particular brand--name this brand. 

What is American Standard?

500

Barry J. Marshall famously drank a broth of a certain bacterial culture in order to demonstrate the link between inflammation and bacterial infection. By doing so he solved a medical mystery and was able to pinpoint the correct treatment for a disease that Naana suffered from a few years ago. 

What is the bacteria and what is the disease?

What is Helicobacter pylori and what are stomach ulcers?

500

What is the current governing political party in South Africa?

What is the African National Congress?

It has been ruling ever since 1994, ever since the election of Nelson Mandela--which is post-apartheid South Africa. 

500

What is Kalpana Nainamma's longest move streak?

What age did Kalpana Nainamma go to jail and what age did she leave?

What is 167 days?

What is from 3 years to five years?