Konkani
History of Thanksgiving
Food
Computer Science
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100

What does GSB stand for?

What is Gaud Saraswat Brahmin

100

This ship carried the Pilgrims to North America in 1620.

What is the Mayflower?

100

What is the national dish of England?

What is chicken tikka masala?

100

This programming concept allows a function to call itself.


What is recursion?


100

Who has won the most Australian Open titles (hint: one of the big 3)?

Who is Novak Djokovic?

200

Who muthied in front of the car?

What is a mushi?

200

Although now a classic Thanksgiving dessert, this pie only became widespread in American cooking after canned purée of this ingredient became commercially available in the late 19th century.

 What is pumpkin pie?

200

This spice blend, used in Indian cuisine, literally means “hot mixture.”


What is garam masala?


200

Written in base X (arbitrary base), what is the representation of X.

What is 10?

200

Which country has won the most men's FIFA World Cup titles?

What is Brazil?

300

What is the largest city in which Konkani is an official language?

What is Vasco de Gama.

300

Name one of the two NFL football teams that always play on Thanksgiving.

Who are the Green Bay Packers?
(or)
Who are the Detroit Lions?

300

This rare Japanese citrus fruit, used in ponzu sauce, tastes like a mix of lemon, lime, and grapefruit.


What is yuzu?


300

This concurrency problem occurs when two processes wait indefinitely for each other to release resources.


What is deadlock?


300

This Kansas City Chiefs tight end holds multiple postseason receiving records and is currently dating Taylor Swift.

Who is Travis Kelce?

400

Despite being one language, Konkani is written in this many major scripts.

What is five? (Devanagari, Roman, Kannada, Malayalam, Persian/Arabic)

400

Which US president made Thanksgiving an official holiday?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

This chemical process, crucial for flavor in bread, coffee, and chocolate, involves reactions between sugars and amino acids at high temperatures.


What is the Maillard reaction?


400

This algorithm, a modification of Dijkstra’s Algorithm, is used to find negative cycles in a graph.

What is the Bellman–Ford algorithm?


400

He is widely known as the “Master Blaster” and is considered one of the greatest batters in cricket history, with 100 international centuries.

Who is Sachin Tendulkar?

500

This Goan musician is renowned worldwide for his violin performances.

Who is L. Subramaniam?

500

This Native American tribe shared the harvest feast with the Pilgrims in 1621.

Who are The Wampanoag?

500

The national dish of Iceland, Hákarl, is a fermented version of this animal.

What is a shark?

500

What is Prashant Shenoy's h-index, rounded to the nearest 10?

What is 90 (h-index = 85)?

500

He is the only athlete to win gold in both the long jump and the 100-meter dash in the same Olympics (1936 Berlin Olympic Games)

Who is Jesse Owens?