Go ahead! Stretch your e-magination and test yourself. Click on the right answer and get the full scoop. Get it wrong—try again. None. A million candles in glass globes keep the palace aglow.   100,000-plus, but they don’t burn every night.   1,000 for each year since the palace was rebuilt in 1912.   No one’s ever done an official count. Right! More than 100,000 lightbulbs brighten the palace in India’s Karnataka state, but only on Sundays and holidays. Think of the electric bill! How many lightbulbs does it take to illuminate India’s Mysore Palace? Photograph by Sudhir Ramchandran

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