This is a river considered holy by the people of India.
What is the Ganges River?
100
The first President of the U.S. to have visited India twice during his time in office is _____.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
This land form is a natural boundary between China and India.
What are the Himalayas?
100
India is the 2nd largest in this statistic in the world.
What is Population?
200
This is the formal name of India.
What is the Republic of India?
200
India is considered this kind of geographical land mass.
What is a Peninsula?
200
There was a war between India and this country for the boundary in 1962.
What is China?
200
This desert is located in northwestern India.
What is the Thar Desert/Great Indian Desert/Marusthali?
200
This is the dominant religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
300
This is the year that India declared independence from Britain.
What is 1947?
300
This is the famous mausoleum in India commissioned in 1632 and completed in 1654 to commemorate the third wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
What is the Taj Mahal?
300
It is estimated that between 4.7 and 12 _____ tons of topsoil are lost annually to soil erosion.
Billion
300
India is located in _____ Asia bordering two countries whose land area is larger.
What is Southern Asia?
300
The _____ _____ in India is a system of social stratification which historically separated communities into thousands of endogamous hereditary groups.
*Endogamy - The practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group.
What is a Caste System?
400
India adopted this form of government modeled after Great Britain.
What is a Parliamentary Republic?
400
India’s highest elevation is 8598 meters at Kanchenjunga which is the ______ largest mountain in the world and is situated in this land form.
What is the third largest mountain and what are the Himalayas?
400
India has the fourth largest reserve in this natural resource.
What is Coal?
400
Name at least 3 countries that directly border India.
Pakistan, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh
400
India is the ____ largest country in the world.
Seventh.
500
The capital of India used to be called Delhi, now referred to as Old Delhi. This separates New and Old Delhi, and serves as an important war memorial?
What is the India Gate?
500
This Indian City is largest in population in the country, but it is not the capital of India.
What is Mumbai?
500
The _____ conflict is a major territorial dispute between India and Pakistan that dates back prior to independence when the British colonialists gave up India and left only after the subcontinent was partitioned.
What is the Kashmir Conflict?
500
Walls and lights are placed on the Pakistani and Indian border to prevent this action/event from occurring.