Q 01/05

Tea gardens in parts of Assam keep 'bagan time', a local clock set how far from Indian Standard Time?

A) One hour behind

B) Thirty minutes ahead

C) One hour ahead

D) Two hours ahead

Answer · why

C) One hour ahead

One hour ahead is 'bagan time', tea garden time, in the corner of India that sees daybreak first. In 2014 Assam's chief minister urged the whole state...

Q 02/05

Whose 1904 visit to Kaziranga set off the first moves to protect it as a reserve forest?

A) The Viceroy's wife

B) A Scottish tea planter

C) A Bengali zoologist

D) An Ahom noble

Answer · why

A) The Viceroy's wife

The Viceroy's wife, Mary Curzon, toured Kaziranga hoping to see its famous rhinos and saw none, so she pressed her husband to protect them; officials ...

Q 03/05

Rongali Bihu, the Assamese New Year when village cattle are washed in rivers, falls in which month?

A) January

B) April

C) October

D) December

Answer · why

B) April

April, because the Assamese year begins when the sun enters Aries, the same solar reckoning that puts Thailand's Songkran and Punjab's Vaisakhi in the...

Q 04/05

Majuli is Guinness's largest river island, but Britannica picks Bananal Island in which country?

A) Canada

B) Argentina

C) Russia

D) Brazil

Answer · why

D) Brazil

Brazil's Bananal Island, where the Araguaia River splits into two branches for 320 km, is Britannica's pick. Guinness backs Majuli, a title under thre...

Q 05/05

Which golden wild silk of Assam, spun by larvae fed on som and sualu leaves, holds a GI tag?

A) Muga

B) Eri

C) Pat

D) Tussar

Answer · why

A) Muga

Muga is the silk that washing improves: its golden lustre is said to grow with every hand wash. The silkworm that spins it has never been fully domest...