India Quiz: A Billion Stories
Explore India, from its rivers and mountains to its films, festivals and space missions.
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- Which river flows past Varanasi, the holy city where Hindu pilgrims bathe?
- Why were Indian stepwells built?
- The name Bollywood blends Hollywood with the old name of which Indian city?
- The digits 0 to 9 are often called Arabic numerals. Where were they first developed?
- Which of these countries share a land border with India?
- In 2023, India became the first country to land a spacecraft near which part of the Moon?
- London gets about 0.6 m of rain a year. How much falls on Mawsynram, one of India's wettest towns?
- During Holi, the Hindu spring festival, what do people throw at each other?