Geography · India records
India Records Trivia Quiz
Biggest, Longest, Highest India's largest, longest, highest and first: states, rivers, peaks, bridges, tunnels, temples and stadiums. Some of these records are only months old.
153 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This India Records Trivia Quiz has 153 questions: 54 easy, 62 medium and 37 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 153 India records questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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The world's largest free kitchen feeds tens of thousands of people every day, of every faith, at which shrine?
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Golden Temple
Volunteers cook and serve the langar; Britannica puts it at about 1 lakh vegetarian meals a day.
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Which river rises only about 80 km from the Arabian Sea, then flows some 1,465 km the other way, to become peninsular India's longest?
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Godavari
Its length earned it the name Dakshin Ganga, the Ganga of the South. It ends in the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh.
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With only about 17 people per sq km, which northeastern state, the biggest in the region, is India's most thinly peopled?
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Arunachal Pradesh
It became a full state only in 1987. Until 1972 it was called the North-East Frontier Agency.
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When India re-measured its coastline with sharper maps in 2024, it 'grew' by about half, to 11,098 km. Which state still has the longest stretch?
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Gujarat
Its coast went from about 1,215 km on paper to 2,340 km. No land was added; the new count just traced every creek.
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Rare Irrawaddy dolphins swim in Odisha's huge lagoon, Asia's largest brackish-water lake. Name it.
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Chilika
In 1981 it became one of India's first two Ramsar wetlands of world importance, and huge flocks of birds winter there.
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The world's biggest river delta, home of the Sundarbans, is built by the Ganga and which other great river?
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Brahmaputra
Their delta covers most of Bangladesh and southern West Bengal, and the Sundarbans fill its seaward edge.
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Most big rivers of peninsular India flow east. Which is India's longest river that flows west, into the Arabian Sea?
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Narmada
It runs through a rift valley between the Vindhya and Satpura hills. The Tapi, just to its south, does the same.
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Which mountain on the Sikkim–Nepal border, the world's third-highest, has a name meaning 'five treasures of the snow'?
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Kangchenjunga
Its five summits give it its name, and the people of Sikkim worship it as a guardian deity.
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In 2016, which Assam river island became India's first island district?
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Majuli
It was announced on 8 September 2016, singer Bhupen Hazarika's birthday. The river has eaten away much of its land.
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India's first-ever snow leopard count, released in 2024, found 477 of the 718 cats in which union territory?
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Ladakh
That's about two in three of India's snow leopards. Uttarakhand came second with 124.
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Which football ground in Bengal's capital once packed in about 1,20,000 fans, once among the world's biggest football stadiums?
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Salt Lake Stadium
Rebuilt for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, it now holds about 68,000.
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The world's largest cannon on wheels, Jaivana, was fired only once. In which fort on the hills above Jaipur does it sit?
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Jaigarh
It was cast in the 1720s in the fort's own foundry and test-fired with 100 kg of gunpowder.
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A Jodhpur maharaja built one of the world's largest private homes partly to give his people work during a famine. Which palace, finished in 1943?
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Umaid Bhawan
It has 347 rooms. Part is now a Taj hotel, and the royal family still lives in another wing.
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The world's largest working Hindu temple, spread over 156 acres, is a walled island town on the Kaveri. Name it.
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Srirangam
It has seven rings of walls and 21 towers. The tallest, about 73 m, was finished only in 1987.
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The world's largest monument carved from one single rock is a temple at Ellora. Which sacred Himalayan mountain is it named after?
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Kailasa
Cut down from the top of a cliff in the 8th century, it is about 32 m high and 78 m long.
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India's 2024 coastline re-count gave which union territory about 3,083 km of shore, more than any state?
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Its hundreds of islands add up to more shoreline than Gujarat's 2,340 km, the longest of any state.
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Which Uttarakhand peak is the highest mountain that lies entirely inside India?
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Nanda Devi
Kangchenjunga is taller but sits on the border with Nepal, so Nanda Devi is the tallest peak wholly in India.
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Which Kashmir lake, often called India's largest freshwater lake, swells and shrinks with the seasons as the Jhelum flows through it?
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Wular
Its size swings from about 30 to 189 sq km, and big willow plantations on its shore since the 1950s have shrunk it.
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Which peak near Munnar, whose name means 'elephant's head', is the highest point in India south of the Himalayas?
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Anamudi
At 2,695 m it is also India's most isolated peak: no higher ground lies anywhere near it.
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Out of respect for the local belief that its summit is sacred, the first climbers in 1955 stopped a few feet short of the top of which Himalayan giant?
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Kangchenjunga
Joe Brown and George Band kept a promise made to Sikkim's rulers on 25 May 1955, and many climbers since have done the same.
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