Question: In what Indus Valley Civilization district was Kalibangan within?
Answer: Hanumangarh district

Question: What were the Saka Rulers of Western India believed to be called?
Answer: Western Kshatrapas

Question: Over what time period were the Western Kshatrapas in power?
Answer: 405–35 BC

Question: The Kushans ruled what part of the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: the northern part

Question: Members of what tribe were exterminated in Ajmer?
Answer: Gurjars

Question: What tribe formerly ruled Kota?
Answer: Bhils

Question: What was the name of the group that formerly ruled Bundi?
Answer: Meenas

Question: What is another way to refer to the PhulMali?
Answer: Saini

Question: The Jats assisted in building what state?
Answer: Rajasthan

Question: What empire stopped Arab invasions?
Answer: Gurjar Pratihar Empire

Question: Arab attempted to invade the Gurjar Pratihar Empire beginning in what century?
Answer: 8th

Question: Arab conquest was limited to what region?
Answer: Sindh

Question: What was the most notable accomplishment of the Gurjara Pratihara Empire?
Answer: its successful resistance to foreign invasions

Question: Which historian claims that even the Arabs acknowledged the importance of the Gurjara Pratihara Empire in stopping invasions?
Answer: Historian R. C. Majumdar

Question: How many princely states of Rajputana contain?
Answer: nineteen

Question: What is the name of the British district within Rajputana?
Answer: Ajmer-Merwara

Question: Bharatpur is an example of what kind of state?
Answer: princely

Question: Under a Muslim Nawab there was a princely state, what was its name?
Answer: Tonk

Question: What families rose to power in the 6th century?
Answer: Rajput families

Question: What group in the Rajasthan region started to have internal disputes?
Answer: Mughals

Question: In what century did the Mughal Empire come into decline?
Answer: 18th century

Question: The Maratharas gained what over Rajputana?
Answer: suzerainty

Question: Where were the Marathas from?
Answer: the state of what is now Maharashtra

Question: In what year did the British Empire replace the Maratha Empire?
Answer: 1818

Question: Which mountain range goes through Rajasthan?
Answer: the Aravalli Range

Question: What is the length in miles of the Aravalli Range?
Answer: 530 mi

Question: What peak is at the southwestern part of the Aravalli Range?
Answer: Mount Abu

Question: What portion of Rajasthan is east and south of the Aravalli Range?
Answer: two-fifths

Question: Which river separates the main Aravelli ranges?
Answer: West Banas River

Question: Dry and sandy conditions are indicative of which region of Rajasthan? 
Answer: The northwestern portion

Question: Which desert is in the northwestern part of Rajasthan?
Answer: the Thar Desert

Question: What is the most populous city in the Thar Desert?
Answer: Jodhpur

Question: What are the names of the major districts of the Thar?
Answer: Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Barmer, Bikaner and Nagour

Question: Rainfall in the Thar Desert region is less than what amount each year on avarage?
Answer: 400 mm

Question: What is a characteristic of the region to the east of the Aravalli range?
Answer: more fertile and better watered

Question: What is the name of the ecoregion to the east and southeast of the Aravalli Range?
Answer: the Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion

Question: What are two examples of trees in the broadleaf forests east of the Aravalli's?
Answer: teak, Acacia

Question: What is the name of the region which is home to Dungarpur?
Answer: Vagad region

Question: What is the most heavily forested region in Rajasthan?
Answer: Vagad

Question: How many meters high is Guru Shikhar?
Answer: 1,722

Question: What percentage of Rajasthan is to the northwest of the Aravalli range?
Answer: 60%

Question: What is the average elevation of the south-eastern region of Rajasthan?
Answer: 100 to 350 m above sea level

Question: A tableland is contained within what to southeastern districts?
Answer: Kota and Bundi

Question: What river runs along the badlands in the northeast of Rajasthan
Answer: the Chambal River

Question: Which region contains Desert National Park?
Answer: Jaisalmer

Question: How many square miles is Desert National Park?
Answer: 1,221 sq mi

Question: What types of large fossils are found in Desert National Park?
Answer: massive fossilised tree trunks

Question: What are the most common types of eagles one might see in the Jaisalmer region?
Answer: Short-toed eagles (Circaetus gallicus), tawny eagles (Aquila rapax), spotted eagles (Aquila clanga)

Question: What is another name for a laggar falcon?
Answer: Falco jugger

Question: What Rajasthani national park is known for its tigers?
Answer: Ranthambore National Park

Question: How many tigers were relocated to Sariska?
Answer: five tigers

Question: Ranthamb National Park is known by photographers as what?
Answer: one of the best place in India to spot tigers

Question: Why did tigers became extinct in Sariska?
Answer: poaching and negligence

Question: The Rajasthan economy is largely composed of what type of industries?
Answer: agricultural and pastoral

Question: What are Rajasthans two main cash crops?
Answer: Cotton and tobacco

Question: What type of oil does Rajasthan produce some of the largest amounts of in India?
Answer: edible oils

Question: Rajasthan consumes the most of what product?
Answer: opium

Question: How many crop seasons are there in Rajasthan?
Answer: two crop seasons

Question: What type of fibre is Rajasthan ranked 2nd in production of?
Answer: polyester fibre

Question: What is the largest city for polyster blouse pieces in Rajasthan?
Answer: Pali is largest city in cotton and polyster in blouse pieces

Question: From what town did the marble in the Taj Mahal come?
Answer: Makrana

Question: What type of deposits are found at Sambhar?
Answer: rich salt deposits

Question: What kind of mines are found in Khetri and Jhunjhunu ?
Answer: copper mines

Question: What are earnings from crude oil in Rajasthan expected to be in 2013?
Answer: ₹250 million per day

Question: How many barrels of crude oil from Barmer is Rajasthan allowed to extract each day?
Answer: 300,000 barrels

Question: The leader in Indian crude oil production at 250,000 barrels per day is what region?
Answer: Bombay High

Question: What group is conducting exploration for Rajasthan's crude oil??
Answer: Cairn India

Question: How many barrels per day is currently being extracted from the Barmer region?
Answer: 175,000 barrels

Question: What type of food was preferred in Rajasthani cooking?
Answer: Food that could last for several days and could be eaten without heating

Question: Along with scarce green vegetables, what had an impact on Rajasthani cooking?
Answer: scarcity of water

Question: What type of snack is Rajasthan known for?
Answer: Bikaneri Bhujia

Question: What famous dish is also known as hot garlic paste?
Answer: lashun ki chutney

Question: Vegetarian restaurants come from which Rajasthani region?
Answer: the Marwar region

Question: What type of dance comes from Jodhpur Marwar?
Answer: The Ghoomar dance

Question: Kalbeliya dance is from which region?
Answer: Jaisalmer

Question: What type of music plays a big part in the culture of Rajasthan?
Answer: Folk music

Question: Heroic deeds are often a theme of what type of Rajasthani song?
Answer: Folk songs

Question: What kind of song is referred to as a bhajan?
Answer: religious or devotional

Question: Bagaru and Sanganer represent what type of art?
Answer: prints

Question: Zari is a type of what art that is a major Rajasthani export?
Answer: embroidery

Question: Females in Rajasthan wear what type of traditional clothing?
Answer: ankle-length skirt and a short top

Question: What are the names for a traditional female short-top piece of clothing?
Answer: lehenga or a chaniya choli