Bengal
West Bengal is an Indian state, while Bangladesh occupies eastern Bengal. This topic is part of Regions within Geography. This page currently draws on 13 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Bengal trivia questions
Bengal is a historic region divided mainly between Bangladesh and which country?
Answer: India
Bonus fact: West Bengal is an Indian state, while Bangladesh occupies eastern Bengal.
What major river delta dominates Bengal?
Answer: Ganges-Brahmaputra delta
Bonus fact: It is one of the world's largest river deltas.
What language is most widely associated with the Bengal region?
Answer: Bengali
Bonus fact: Bengali is spoken by hundreds of millions of people.
The Bengal tiger is native mainly to which region?
Answer: South Asia
Bonus fact: Bengal tigers live mainly in India and nearby countries.
What is the Bengal tiger's scientific subspecies name traditionally given as?
Answer: Panthera tigris tigris
Bonus fact: The Bengal tiger is part of the tiger species Panthera tigris.
Which country has the largest population of wild Bengal tigers?
Answer: India
Bonus fact: India supports most of the world's wild tigers.
The Bengal famine of 1943 occurred in which country under British colonial rule?
Answer: India
Bonus fact: Bengal was then part of British India; the region is now divided between India and Bangladesh.
The Bengal famine took place during which global conflict?
Answer: World War II
Bonus fact: Wartime disruption, inflation, crop problems, policy decisions, and market failures all contributed to the disaster.
Which Nobel-winning economist later used the Bengal famine to help develop his work on entitlement and access to food?
Answer: Amartya Sen
Bonus fact: Sen argued that famine can occur even when food exists if people lose the economic ability to obtain it.
Which Mughal emperor was part of the coalition defeated at Buxar?
Answer: Shah Alam II
Bonus fact: After the battle, political settlements gave the East India Company major revenue-collecting rights in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
The word bungalow entered English from a word associated with which region?
Answer: Bengal
Bonus fact: The term comes from Hindi bangla, meaning Bengali-style house.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta empties into which bay?
Answer: Bay of Bengal
Bonus fact: It forms one of the world's largest deltas.