India

Question 1

_______ is the name of the mountain range in northern India/Nepal.

Answer 1

Himalayas

Question 2

________ is the capital of India.

Answer 2

New Delhi

Question 3

Most of south Asia’s economy comes from________.

Answer 3

Farming

Question 4

Pakistan’s primary climate is _______.

Answer 4

Desert

Question 5

True or False - The wet season is monsoon season, which helps with agriculture but can also cause mudslides and heavy flooding.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False - India has the second largest population in the world, with more than one billion people living in its lands.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False - Bangladesh’s predominant religion is Buddhism.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True or False - Bhutan’s predominant ethnicity is Iranian

Answer 8

False

Question 9

___________ is a beutiful and fertile landthat some people have called paradise on Earth.

Answer 9

Kashmir

Question 10

The ___________ are a string of islands near the southwestern tip of India in the Indian ocean.

Answer 10

Maldives

Question 11

Southeast Asia’s climate and culture are strongly affected by ______ winds and rain.

Answer 11

dry

Question 12

One of the first cultures in the world began in the valley around the ___________ more than 4,600 years ago.

Answer 12

Indus River

Question 13

The _______ river is more than 1,500 miles long and flows southeast through India to the Bay of Bengal

Answer 13

Ganges

Question 14

If the monsoon rains are very light, _______ can occur which leads to crop failure and famine.

Answer 14

drought

Question 15

True or False - Followers of Christianity believe that the Ganges River is holy.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or False - There were two great of the early Indus valley civilization called Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False - By 1700 BCE, the Indus valley civilization had almost totally disappeared which brought an end to one of the world’s earliest agriculture societies.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False - In 1960, India and Nepal signed a water treaty which allowed both nations to have use of the Indus river

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Smaller rivers and streams flow into the Indus River from snow in the ___________ that has melted

Answer 19

Himalayas

Question 20

One famine_____________ in 1974-1945vkilled more than 200,000 people

Answer 20

Bangladesh

Question 21

The most populous country in the South Asia region is _____, which has more than one billion people.

Answer 21

India

Question 22

__________ is a slang name for the indian film industry.

Answer 22

Bollywood

Question 23

The _________ was a series of paths and passages used by traders that linked the cities of China to the Middle East and Europe.

Answer 23

Silk Road

Question 24

Pakistan is largely ________; therefore, their cuisine is made with specific Islamic food preparation practices.

Answer 24

Muslim

Question 25

True or False - One of the most important festivals in Hinduism is the harvest festival of Ramadan.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

True or False - The Hindus believe in reincarnation, the belief that individual beings live and die many times.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

True or False - Islam is the majority religion in both Pakistan and Bangladesh

Answer 27

True

Question 28

______is the most widely spoken language in India, while ______is the official language of Pakistan

Answer 28

Hindi, Urdu

Question 29

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britan gave a company called the ________________ the right to trade with India.

Answer 29

East India Company

Question 30

For Centuries, the ______ _________ in India was a central principle through which social position was understood.

Answer 30

Caste System

Question 31

In the year 1600, Queen Elizabeth 1 provided a royal grant to the __________ which gave it a monopoly over all English trade rights in the area.

Answer 31

East India Company

Question 32

AS a young man, _________ worked against discrimination in the British colonies of South Africa and India.

Answer 32

Mohandas Gandhi