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This document contains a food quiz with questions about global cuisines and their origins.  Questions cover various dishes, their names, and the country where those foods are from, including images and details about the dishes, offering interesting facts and history about them.

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WORLD 6 Super-crunchy, super-tangy and also super-spicy, this could be the world's best salad. Made by pounding raw papaya, peanuts, dried shrimp, fish sauce, palm sugar, garlic, lime juice and bird's...

WORLD 6 Super-crunchy, super-tangy and also super-spicy, this could be the world's best salad. Made by pounding raw papaya, peanuts, dried shrimp, fish sauce, palm sugar, garlic, lime juice and bird's at eye chilli in a mortar, it is sweet and sour, hot and salty all once. Tomatoes and beans may be added to. Dish:..A....Qa.... Country: Thailand 5tew with swag! Sliced meat (usually lamb) or fish, vegetables, olives, spices like cumin and nuts go into a pot (same name as he stew) with a conical lid. Steam from the food is trapped in the cone, condenses and trickles back down to cook the food! Perfect or dry regions? ish:..G.... Country..sGO 8. If you love fried potato (and who doesn't?), this is your dream come true! It has a bed of golden-crisp fries, smothered with brown gravy (classically beef but roasted vegetables work well too) and liberally laced with soft, squeaky cheese curds (somewhat like spongy cottage cheese). It sounds like a Russian politician's name! Dish:...aMt. Country:...aRce ke#5, this bite-sized dish comes in countless varieties: har gau, u mai,cheong fun...Usually steamed or fried, it is made by filling ce flour or wheat starch wrappers with meats (pork, shrimp, icken, crab) or ingredients like tofu, taro and turnip. It is washed own with jasmine tea. sh:..D..uR.. Country:.aNa 10. Let's end ona sweet note! This baked dessert with a crunchy shell and moist, marshmallow-like centre is topped with whipped cream and slices of fruit like strawberry, passion fruit, or (HINTI) kiwi. It was created and named in honour of a certain ballerina who danced as lightly and airily as meringue! Dish:...LA..Country:.ekl.ealand a. So you think you know all about pasta, eh? Spaghetti? Check. Penne? Check. wname these interestingly shaped pasta from Italy. The meanings ofNEPthe names given as hints. Critical Thinking little shells twins little ribbons butterflies 61 52 Global Gobble understand different places, cultures and peo tastyl) way to quiz? A. A very good (and why not try out this finger-licking, fip-smacking foodorigin to eat like them. So names of the dishes and their countries of the see if you can figure out NEP generously provided! Diversity and Re the help of the clues we have recreate the Interestingly, this dish is topped with ingredients that 1. home country: red salsa, green cilantro, white onion! flag of its tortilla (like roti) folded into half, What is this dish? Aflour/corn deep-fried shrimp, spicy filled with any of these: barbecued meat, pork-pineapple mix, vegetables, or fried grasshoppers! Dish:...eea.... Country: Mxa. indeed a classic, and you 2. It may sound pretty basic but this is Traditionally made with c know one when you bite into one. pota this is batter-fried fish fillets served with thick, hand-cut Plaice wedges (or fries), laced liberally with salt and vinegar. haddockare also used. Dish:h.... Country:.aguad. 3. Traditionally from Valencia, this wholesome dish has rice tinted yellow with saffron, meat stock, various meats or seafood and vegetables, especially beans. Cooked in a large pan, its best part is the crunchy-chewy bit at the bottom where the rice sticks to the pan! Dish:.....en Pacll. Country:.ain.... 4. Layers of chocolate sponge sandwiched with dollops of whipped cream, studded with sour cherries, decorated with chocolateshavings..mmm, what's not to like? Locally known Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, its classic version will also have a d extract called kirsch. It isn't Indian but every bakery in India w stock this delightful dish! Dish:lack.2ea.ake Country:..nthNkall... 5. It's all about the rice, which must be perfect. Then you go wild with add-ons: salmon, tuna, shrimp, eel, octopus, crab, seaweed, fish roe, veggies...all go into making styles like nigiri, maki, gunkan, temaki, and inari. It is served with pickled ginger, soy sauce and a sharp paste called wasabi. Dish:. £. Country..ean. 50 Salkhe 51 lconic India clues about somne remarkable modern structures in India. ere are visual and textual Logical Deductio unscramble the letters to 'build' the right answers? an you Chandigarh, The City Beautiful', were Court buildings in Assenbly and the High The architect. LECORLLISER designed by thisfamous Swiss-French ELoBSCURER This spiritual-cultural campus located in Delhi is the largest of world...AKSHARDHAM its kind in the DARKASHAMH Iranian-American architect Fariborz Sahba, this building Designed by flower-shaped central structure with 9+9+9 'petals. features nine ponds around its LRLA.KMIES oLUTPELTME suburb former Indian prime minister, this bridge connects a Mumbai commercial hub.. Named for a a former Koli village that is now a Sachin Tendulkar lives to where.AANDKRA...ORL DRABANLORIWASE K I L N Louis most Kahn, thËs is,one of theAGAD Designed by American architect India...L.MA. institutes in premier management MIHEADBADMA this Pamban Bridge is an engineering marvel that connectsto... 5. The mainland India. island to temple town on Pamban wAR ME RA MAS this is the campus of one of India's most fa ,of the Wodeyars, 7. Situated in the toWNOS... oYF NS Ne IT enterprises. of this building, sited atop Raisina Hill inthe heart of occupant The first IndianRajagopalachari.ASKALA HAVAN Delhi, was C. vANBAH P A R SHARTAT hospitality group. this iconic hotel in Colaba stands its The flagship propertyofofIndia. PALACE next to the Gateway ALPACE HAMAL ATE famous Bengalis such as Swami Vivekananda and 10 10. Along with has given his name Rabindranath Tagore, this scholar-reformer Kolkata.... A across the Hooghly in to a bridge RAvY SADA 50 Toast of the Coast a reason. Or many reasons. Here, 100% literacy Es called God's Own Country for health holidays merge with exotic wildlife. Ayurvedic meets emerald backwaters andmonuments, exotic cuisine and much more. How well do magical festivals, historic Socetyyand Retea you know Kerala? featured on the state seal or coat of arms of Kerala state? L. Which animal is c. Indian rhinoceros a. Great harnbill b, Astan elephant cities of Kerala will you find the famous cheena vala, which are Chinese Z. In which two with stone counterweights? fishing nets installed on wooden frames b. Kottayam & Kozhikode a. Thiryvananthapuram &Palakkad cKollam &Kochi iconic actor from the Malayalam film industry played the lead in the critically 3. Which remade into Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, as well acclaimed Drishyam, which was later as Hindi? c. Suresh Gopi Mohan Lal b. Mammootty Parashurama, the sixth 4. According to legend, which martial art was created by monk Bodhidharma? incarnation of Lord Vishnu, and popularized by Buddhist c. Pari-Khanda a. Silambam brKalaripayattu a hotspot for 5. Which lake, spread across-multiple districts, is India's longest lake and Kerala's backwater tourism? a Vembanad b. Ashtamudi c. Vellayani 6. Nicknamed 'PayyoliExpress', which great Indian athlete lost the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics bya hundredth of a second? a.KM. Beenamol b. Tintu Luka CPUsha 7. Which traditional vegetarian meal, literallybanquet' in Malayalam, has about 24-28 dishes served on banana leaf and is prepared on special occasions such as weddings and festivals? a. Paayasam S5dhya c. Avial 8. Though Vasco da Gama landed in Kozhikode, the headquarters of Portuguese India were establishedin Kochi at Fort Emmanuel. Who was appointed as the first Viceroy Portuguese India in 1505? a. Afonso de Albuquerque b. Pedro Mascarenhas Francisco de Almeida 58 DI 40 Plug 6& Pay Isn't it a wonderful world when you can as easily take a walk to the community m to buy a notebook as you can click on a website to buy fruit, clothes or gizmos? a if you're keeping up with virtual world. Find the answers in this word maze. 1. Famous teacher' who successfully Jndled his tuition NMQRHEw clas into lasses W AUE biggest academic learning portal (4,10) R D NN Makot Travel guide' that trades on L D NASDAQ with the symbol MMYT MU P (4,2,4) D A "Dil Ki Deal' and "Unbox Zindagi" R N oLN are some advertising slogans of this online marketplace (8) RA Furniture and home decor L D Vbom e:tailer co-founded by aformer R EB A M Lodden CEO of Amar Chitra Katha (5,6) KM GYO 5. Launched in 2008 as Foodiebay, R A ZomatD this is not a funny vegetable but a P ANS restaurant search app (6) LRDEEU AP n laxi aggregator whose name 60oKM SHowP sounds the Spanish forhello', it also makes electric two -wheelers in the m like CRBS FutureFactory (3,4) 7, Once focused on book sales, Flipkart diversified by HNT acquiring, among others, Phe Cleartrip and this one-stop-shop for fashion essentials (6) 8, With a name aptly meaning 'female protagonist', this was the first Indian VYkPA up unicor headed by a woman, Falguni Nayar (5) UG 9. Online supermarket for home essentials like groceries has boasted of King Khar DES KeT brand ambassador (3,6) 10. One of ndia's biggest online ticketing brands, this is your go-to place for booki movies, plays, concerts, exhibitions, even food festivals! (4,2,4) Market Watch Jabong.com often presents limited edition fashion collections based on popular Bollywood films t up with, such as Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Dhoom 3 and Humpty Sharmo Ki In March 2015, Ratan Tata picked up a minority stake in PayTM for an Alibaba.com invested a whopping 575 million dollars for a 25% stake inundisclosed amount. the PayTM's parent One97 Communications. 56 49 Desi Dreamers How many of these path-breaking Indians do you know of? Pick the correct cholce. of the 1. Founder of the Brahmo Samaj, which Bengali reformer earned the title of 'Father Indian Renaissance'? a. Swami Dayanand Saraswati b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar efaja Ram Mohun Roy 2. Who played the title role in India's first talkie film Alam Ara (1931)? b. Devika Rani c. Sulochana Devi a Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir 3. Which revolutionaryorganization was established at Feraz Shah Kotlain NewDelhi by Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev Thapar? a. Kirti Kisan Party b. Ghadar Party G,HIndustan Socialist Republican AssociationHSRH) 4, in 1947, which freedom fighter became the first female Governor of an Indian state/province? c. Sucheta Kriplani a. Vijayalakshmi Pandit b: Sarojini Naidu 5. In which southern princely state was the iconic artist Raja Ravi Varma, famous for his depictions of Hindu deities and episodes from epics, born? a. Mysore bravancore c. Hyderabad 6. Which squaddid the Indian hockey team,led by the legendary Dhyan Chand, beat in the1936 Berlin Olympicfinals to win the hockey gold? a. Germany b. France c. The Netherlands 7. Named for one of india's foremost chemists, which annual award was institutedin 1958 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for outstanding work in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and physics? a. C.V. Raman Prize b. Homi Bhabha Award for Excelence in Science c8S BhatnagarPrize for Science and Technology 8. Of which 19thcenturý Indian mystic was Swami Vivekananda a disciple a. Ishwar Totapuri b:Ramakrishna Paramahansa c. Ramana Maharshi

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