Inside Incredible India Trivia Quiz

Answer: Western

Porbandar is a coastal city, along the Arabian Sea, in the state of Gujarat. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, considered the "father of the nation", was born in Porbandar, then a part of British India, on October 2, 1869. His birthday is now a national holiday in India, Gandhi Jayanti.

Answer: Red Fort

Construction began on the Red Fort in 1638 by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, and it was completed in 1648. It is one of the oldest and largest monuments in Delhi, and has thick red sandstone walls. The castle is in the northeast corner of what is now called "Old Delhi".

Answer: Corbett National Park

Jim Corbett was a colonel with the British-Indian army and killed many tigers and leopards that had eaten civilians in the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In those villages, he was referred to as a "sadhu" (saint). Corbett died in 1955 at the age of 79.

In 1957, the Indian government renamed the Hailey National Park, the country's first designated park, in his memory.

Answer: World War I

Originally called the All India War Memorial, the gate was built in 1931. It represents the 90,000 soldiers who fought for the Indian Army and British Raj in World War I. After the gate was built, a statue of King George V stood beneath it, but was replaced by India's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the country gained its independence.

Answer: Nepal

Kangchenjunga is the third tallest mountain in the world. Britons Joe Brown and George Band were the first to climb the mountain, doing so in 1955. Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the tallest mountain in the world until calculations made by the Great Trigonometric Survey of India proved Mount XV as the tallest (now known as Mount Everest).

The tallest point in Nepal isn't Kangchenjunga, rather the aforementioned Mount Everest.

Answer: Ganga

The Ganges River is 1,560 mi (2,510 km) long and begins high in the Himalayas. The river flows through India before emptying in to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. According to Hindu mythology, the Ganga River ran in the heavens until it was ordered to come down to Earth. Gods feared that Ganga falling down to Earth would wash the planet away. So they arranged for Shiva to catch the river, in which she did. By doing so, the river now rests on Shiva's back.

Answer: Kolkata

National Highway 2 (also called NH 2) was 1,465 km (910 miles) long and ran from New Delhi to Dankuni, an industrial town east of Kolkata. The NH2 moniker was removed in 2010 during a goverment realigning of highways, and the NH2 was split in to two other highways, NH19 and NH44.

The newly created NH19 inherited the lion's share of the route between Agra and Kolkota, with the remaining portion between Delhi and Agra being incorporated into the north-south national route NH44. The road then and now (as NH19) serves as not only a national thoroughfare, but an important continental route as part of the regional Grand Trunk Road and the trans-continental Asian Highway Route 1. NH2 was associated for serving the two metropolises, and was even known explicitly as the "Delhi-Kolkota Road".

Answer: Beaches

In terms of area, the state of Goa is the smallest in area. The state still has over 125 kilometres worth of beaches. Baga and Anjuna are the most popular beaches and are towards the centre of the strip. Towards the north and south ends of Goa, beaches become more scarce and less crowded.

Answer: January 14

January 14th is called the Makara Sankranti, the day of the equinox. Those who die on that day escape from the cycle or birth and rebirth, according to Hindus. The kites are in the air from dawn until dusk, flown by people of all-ages.

Answer: True

The estimated 1,210,193,422 people who were living in India at the end of 2011, ranked the country second in the world, behind China. India's population growth rate is 1.41%, ranking it the 93rd largest in the world. The 16.7 million who live in the Delhi metropolis, rank it the 8th largest metropolis in the world.