India reaches from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean and holds one of the world's oldest civilizations.
This quiz asks 20 questions about Indian food, symbols, places, history and famous people.
One run asks 20 questions from a bank of 40, so two runs do not ask the same set.
How to play
- Each round shows one question and four answers. Tap the answer you think is right.
- You have three lives. Each wrong answer costs one life.
- After each answer, the game shows a short explanation of the right answer.
- The quiz saves your best score and best time.
What counts in this quiz
- The bank holds 40 questions about India: food, drink, symbols, geography, history, people, science, film, music, business, sport, language, society, money, culture.
- Every question has exactly one right answer among the four options.
What's not included, and why
- Facts that change with the news are not in the bank. The quiz asks no questions about sitting politicians or the rankings of today.
- Questions that need a map, such as naming every region of India, live in the map quizzes.
Good to know
- The game of chess grew from chaturanga, played in India more than 1,400 years ago.
- Indian mathematicians gave the world the decimal system and the symbol for zero.
- The Kumbh Mela pilgrimage gathers tens of millions of people in one place.
- The Taj Mahal took about 20 years and some 20,000 workers to build.