Science
Geography
India/Bollywood
Food
History (can earn points if relatively close to date)
100

 What’s the sun primarily made of?


Hydrogen


100

What is the tallest mountain in the world?

Mt. Everest

100

What is the capital of India? 

New Delhi

100

What do you call a person who doesn’t eat animal-based food? 

Vegan

100

What day did Texas officially earn it's independence?

 March 2, 1836

200

What is the name for the amount of energy it takes to increase the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius?

A calorie

200

 What Asian country – whose national flag features a blue 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra wheel in its center – is the world’s largest producer of milk?

India

200

Name the Bollywood actor who made his debut with the film “Maine Pyar Kiya” in 1989.

Salman Khan.

200

Pink Lady is what type of fruit?

Apple

200

Also the name of a 2014 movie which depicts the eruption, which city in present-day Italy that was buried in a blanket of ash and pumice when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?

Pompeii

300

What part of the brain is responsible for memory and learning?


Hippocampus

300

Which country has the most pyramids?

Sudan

300

 Who was awarded best actor of the decade (1990-2000)?

Shahrukh Khan

300

Four chefs prepare a three-course meal using unlikely ingredients from a mystery basket, with one chef eliminated after each course, in what Food Network reality show?

Chopped

300

Hannibal was noted for crossing the Alps with war elephants to invade Italy during the Second Punic War. What city-state's forces did Hannibal command?


Carthage

400

Who carried out the first experiment proving the existence of electromagnetic waves?

Heinrich Hertz

400

Yaoundé is the capital of which country in west-central Africa?


Cameroon


400

The double role in "Aradhana" saw the same star playing the roles of two air force pilots. Who was this actor?



Rajesh Khanna


400

Which Italian dessert means “cooked cream”? 

Panna Cotta

400

The largest public space in Ancient Rome was a venue designed for horse and chariot racing which seated around 150,000 people. Because of its size, it was also used for festivals and animal shows. What was it?

Circus Maximus

500

What indigenous water plant in the Amazon basin has the greatest rate of growth worldwide?

Water hyacinth

500

 A large body of water running along the south coast of Australia is known as the "Great Australian" what, a word meaning "broad, open bay?"


Bight


500

Which Sino-Tibetan language is spoken in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and is an official language of Assam?

Bodo

500

What is the name of the traditional French wedding cake? 

Croquembouche (Pièce montée)

500

Dating back to 3600 BCE in Persia, water-filled "bladder" mattresses were made from an oft-discarded organ of a particular domesticated animal. What is this animal?



Goat