Japanese Foods
These noodles are made from wheat flour.
What is Udon?
What is the nickname for June 6, 1944 when the US and their allies launched an attack against German troops in Normandy, France?
What is D Day?
This is the name of the Japanese form of currency (money).
What is yen?
This geologic formation may be found overhead if you are in a cave.
What is stalactites?
Scientific name for animals with a pouch?
What is a marsupial?
This is a popular and perhaps Japan's most famous use of fish.
What is Sushi/sashimi? (Either is right)
Nicknamed "Ike," this future president was in charge of the entire Allied army during World War II?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
True or false, only 15% of japan is flat enough to grow plants on?
What is True?
This living animal has the heaviest brain.
What is the Sperm Whale?
Which of the following is an ENDANGERED species? A) Red-eyed tree frog B) Field Mouse C) Dwarf Rhino D) Penguin
Field Mouse
Maguro is sushi made with what kind of fish?
What is tuna?
This was what Veterans Day was originally called.
What is Armistice Day?
How many miles away is Japan from the coast of mainland Asia?
What is 120 miles?
The largest hailstone recorded was closest to this object in diameter... A: basketball B: softball C: tennis ball D: golf ball
What is A: basketball. The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter - bigger than a basketball.
Which side of a chicken has the most feathers?
The outside...
This is the ancient form of Japanese poetry.
What is Haiku?
The year when women were officially allowed to join the military.
What is 1917?
Japanese origin city for the martial art of Karate.
Okinawa
This was the first genetically engineered organism. A: Corn, B: Tobacco, C: Sheep, D: Rat
What is a B. tobacco plant. In 1983, a tobacco plant, designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconsin.
What is the fear of wild animals called?
Agrizoophobia
A very important item in Japanese cooking is 'shôyu'. What do we call this substance, also popular in the West, in English?
This is where the Navy base holding the main role in the Middle East operations is located.
What is Bahrain?
What is the national sport of Japan?
What two mammals lay eggs?
What is the platypus and the echidna (spiny anteater)?
What is a group of giraffes called?
What is a neck?