Geography
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Culture
Society
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There are three major rivers in India. This is considered the holiest.
What is the Ganges (or Ganga)?
100
The circumstances of one's life in ancient India was determined by this
What is the caste system?
100
This popular Indian dance form originated in the state of Kerala.
What is Kathakali?
100
The national animal of India.
What is the Bengal Tiger?
100
This animal is considered sacred and often worshiped.
What is the cow?
200
The mountain range in the north east region of India
What are the Himalayan mountains?
200
Siddhartha Guatama is known for this.
What is the founder of Buddhism?
200
The roots of this invention can be traced back to India's Ayurvedic concoction of herbs and oils. The word is derived from Hindi meaning to press, knead or soothe.
What is shampoo?
Hindu word Champo शैम्पू is derived from the Sanskrit root Chapati which means to knead, press and soothe.
200
This Indian dessert is made from condensed milk and sugar, flavored with cardamom and garnished with nuts.
What is Gulab Jamun?
200
Taller, light-skinned people who migrated from their ancestral home near the Caucusus mountains, north of the Black Sea in Central Asia.
Who were the Aryans?
300
Seasonal winds that blew in from the Arabian sea or down from the Himalayas
What are monsoons?
300
The Hindi term for "one's religious duty in life"
What is Dharma?
300
Indian astronomers were able to do this by observing the curved shadow of the earth during a lunar eclipse - written around 1,500 BCE.
What is prove the earth was round?
The first known mention of the solar system was found in the ancient Hindu text Rigveda, approximately 3,000 years before Copernicus. Indian scholars realized that the Earth was not the center of the universe, that the sun had its own orbit, and the existence of other planets orbiting the sun.
300
Aryan writing/language system
What is sanskrit?
300
Ancient Sanskrit symbol that meant peace and harmony
What is the swastika?
400
Because of its size and its separation (due to the mountains) from the Asian continent, the land mass that contains India is known as this
What is a subcontinent?
400
The following are known as:
Life is filled with suffering and sorrow. The cause of all suffering is people’s selfish desire for the temporary pleasures of this world. The way to end all suffering is to end all desires. The way to overcome such desires and attain enlightenment is to follow the eight-fold path.
What are the four noble truths?
400
This mathematical idea was invented in India.
What is the modern numeral or decimal system?
India is also the birthplace of other mathematical concepts, including zero, square root, cube root, and algebra.
400
Double Jeopardy
This major religious festival is known as the "Festival of Lights" and symbolizes the victory of light over darkness.
What is Diwali?
400
This is the famous Indian cricketer and former captain, also known as "The God of Cricket."
Who is Sachin Tendulkar?
500
This city is famously known as the "Pink City."
What is Jaipur?
500
Holding a reputation as one of the greatest Indian emperors, this Mauryan ruler converted to Buddhism after conquering almost all of India.
Who is Asoka?
Ashoka's pillar of Sarnath has been adopted as the National Emblem of India, and the "wheel of Righteousness," has been adopted in the National Flag of India.
500
The reason why we don't know more about the Indus Valley society
What is they had a writing system that we have not been able to translate (no Rosetta stone!)
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500
This musical instrument, often associated with Indian classical music, is a stringed instrument often played with a bow.
What is the sitar?
500
She is the iconic Indian leader known as the "Iron Lady of India."
Who is Indira Gandhi?
