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100
What is the tallest mountain in the world and is located in the Himalayan Mountain Range?
Mount Everest
100
What industry do most of India's people work in?
A. Movies B. Manufacturing C. Religion
D. Agriculture
D. Agriculture
100
Which religion was NOT founded in India?
A. Islam B. Hinduism C. Jainism D. Buddhism
A. Islam
100
What is the term for a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land?
A. Delhi B. delta C. colony D. state
C. colony
100
What continent is India located on?
Asia
200
Which one is NOT one of the 3 major landforms of India?
A. Himalayas B. Deccan Plateau C. Indus River Delta
D. Gangetic Plain
C. Indus River Delta
200
Which one is NOT a crop India produces for sale?
A. cashew nuts B. sugarcane C. oranges D. tea
C. oranges
200
What country ruled India as a colony until 1947?
A. France B. China C. Great Britain D. Pakistan
C. Great Britain
200
What is the type of system in India that divides society into groups based on a person's birth or occupation?
A. caste B. colony C. partition D. delta
A. caste
200
What is the capital city of India?
A. Kolkata B. Mumbai C. New Delhi D. Kathmandu
C. New Delhi
300
What do the hindus call the Ganges River?
Mother River
300
India has some reserves of what resource, but not enough to meet the country's need?
oil
300
What is the name of India's most spectacular building?
Taj Mahal
300
What are seasonal winds that bring either moist or dry air to an area?
monsoons
300
What mathematical concept is attributed to the Gupta Empire?
A. the concept of zero B. square root
C. multiplication D. division
A. the concept of zero
400
In what land feature of India does over half of its population live?
Gangetic Plain
400
Jute, known as the "golden fiber," is grown in India and used to make what?
rope
400
Who was the most important leader of the Indian independence movement?
Mohandas Gandhi
400
What is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent?
Subcontinent
400
India has the world's largest type of what government?
democracy
500
What landforms are #3 and #4 on the map?
eastern and western ghats
500
What is the name of the valuable type of wood found in India that is used to make ships and furniture?
teak
500
Name the two countries that were formed in 1947 in order to avoid a civil war?
India and Pakistan
500
What is the name of the ethnic group of people from the mountains of Nepal that serve as guides for mountain climbers?
sherpas
500
What is the term from the Buddhism religion, that means a state of perfect peace in which suffering and reincarnation end?
nirvana