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During Ethiopia's New Year season, groups of young girls dressed in traditional habesha kemis go door to door singing this song, offering flowers or drawings in exchange for small gifts or money, similar to caroling
What is Abebayehosh (Abebayosh)?
This game is a tradition at EESA’s Freshman Mixer and first GBM
What is musical chairs?
This person was the last emperor of Ethiopia
(Who is Haile Selassie?)
This celebrity performed at the 2021 Super Bowl halftime show
Who is Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd)?
This traditional dance, popular across Amhara and Tigray communities, is defined by rapid, isolated shoulder and chest movements rather than footwork
What is eskista?
In 1896, this battle saw Ethiopian forces under Emperor Menelik II defeat Italy, preserving Ethiopian sovereignty during the era of European colonization of Africa.
What is Battle of Adwa?
The year that Vandy EESA founded
What is 2019?
This is the third biggest tribe in Ethiopia
What is Somali?
This Ethiopian-Eritrean rapper is from Portland, Oregon
Who is Amine?
This act of feeding food directly into someone else's mouth by hand during a meal is a common Ethiopian and Eritrean gesture of hospitality, affection, or respect.
What is gursha?
This large, hourglass-shaped drum, traditionally covered in animal hide and played in Ethiopian Orthodox churches during religious ceremonies and processions, is often accompanied by sistrums and chanting.
What is kebero?
What was the theme of last year's EESA New Year's celebration?
What is thirteen months of sunshine?
This city was the location of the first mosque in Africa
(What is Masawwa?)
This is an Eritrean-Swedish professional footballer
Who is Alexander Isak?
In Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition, this multi-day period after a death involves the community gathering at the bereaved family's home to offer condolences, share meals, and sit with the family — often lasting three days or more.
What is lekso?
This ancient script, still used today for Amharic and Tigrinya, originated in the Kingdom of Aksum and is one of the oldest alphabets still in use in the world.
What is Ge'ez?
The second recorded EESA President
Who is Hermella?
The Eritrean War of Independence lasted for nearly this many years before Eritrea achieved independence
What is 30 years?
A half-Ethiopian rapper who was born in Atlanta
Who is Playboy Carti?
During the timket holiday, men throw this fruit at their crush
(What is a lemon?)
As of 2026, roughly this many Ethiopian birr are needed to equal one US dollar — a steep climb from around 55 birr just a few years earlier, following the government's 2024 decision to float the currency.
What is 160 or 162 Ethiopian Birr?
What year was being celebrated at the first vandy eesa new year's?
What is 2015?
There are this many churches in Lalibela
What is 11?
Who said “I’m so stupid. Why I’m playing this kind of game? Who the hell I’m thinking that I wanna run Marathon?
Who is Sifan Hassan?
This white, gauzy handwoven cotton garment, worn by women in Ethiopia and Eritrea for special occasions, features colorful woven borders called tibeb.
What is Kemis?