Animals
Food
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People/Traditions
Music
Art
100
What do Marsupials have that makes them different from other mammals?
A pouch
100
Name this traditional Mexican food.
What are tacos?
100
This Mountain Range runs through several European countries, including Austria.
What are The Alps
100
This Festival takes place on the 15th day of Chinese New Years Celebrations.
The Lantern Festival
100
Name this Aboriginal Instrument of Australia.
A Digeridoo
100
This traditional Chinese symbol is part of Taoist philosophy and represents the balance between natural forces or energies in life.
What is Yin Yang?
200
This big cat is a relative of the snow leopard.
What is a (Siberian) Tiger?
200
This country is where pizza originated.
What is Italy?
200
This state, which is also a group of islands, is the perfect place to go to enjoy a luau.
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What is Hawaii?
200
Name this Samoan Actor/Celebrity.
Who is Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson?
200
This production ran on Broadway for 18 years.
What is Cats?
200
Traditional Chinese Art is painted with basic colors of ink and simple brush strokes on materials we use in the studio. Name one of the two common canvases that were used.
What is rice paper or silk?
300
This predator fish can be found swimming all along the Great Barrier Reef (just offshore from Australia).
What is a reef shark.
300
Name this food common in China, you can also get it here in Chinese restaurants too.
What are dumplings?
300
The Gobi Dessert which is home to wildlife like Pallas cats, Golden Eagles, Ibexes, and Snow Leopards runs through multiple Asian countries like Mongolia and this other nation that we recently visited.
What is China?
300
This traditional Polynesian dance expresses the language of nature through movement.
What is hula?
300
Name this King of Rock'n'Roll well known for his showmanship and elaborate jumpsuits that were modeled from a karate gi.
Who is Elvis Presley?
300
This painting was made by this Dutch artist.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
400
This is the only member of the bear family that chooses to be a vegetarian.
What is a Panda?
400
In Canada you might try one of these sweet treats, that is similar to a donut. It's name comes from the flat tail of a North American mammal.
What is a Beaver Tail?
400
This is the name of Elvis' home in Memphis Tennessee.
What is Graceland?
400
These statues are called Fu Dogs or Fu Lions and also come in a set of two, is this one the male or female Fu Dog (look under its paw for the clue).
What is Female?
400
Name this Canadian Country Music Superstar.
Who is Shania Twain?
400
The name for this type of design comes from Sanskrit for circular and universal, and originated in India.
What is a Mandala?
500
Koalas don't drink water, they get all of their water intake from this plant that they eat.
What is eucalyptus?
500
Strudel in Austria is most commonly made with this type of Fruit filling (just think of My Favorite Things from The Sound Of Music).
What is Apple?
500
These large structures are commonly found throughout the Netherlands. They pump water up and out of the canals keeping the fields dry, they grind up grain to make flour, and they harness wind energy.
What are windmills?
500
This is the name for round doors common in Chinese Gardens that are meant to bring luck and good fortune to the families that have them.
What are Moon Doors/Moon Gates?
500
The music of this Caribbean Island nation is called Reggae, and one of it's prominent founders was Bob Marley.
What is Jamaica?
500
When we did our Polynesian Islands tour we saw these types of masks that represent different deities and intended to bestow traits in the different areas where they are placed.
What are Tiki Masks?
600
This is the world's largest bird.
What is an Ostrich?
600
In Canada you might visit a "Sugar Shack" where they take this type of syrup, a national staple, that comes from trees. Then they pour it over ice chips or snow, and you can roll it up into a sort of lollipop.
What is Maple Syrup?
600
You can catch a traditional Gondola ride through the canals of this Italian city.
What is Venice?
600
The ORIGINAL, native people of Australia are known by this name.
Who are Aboriginals?
600
What do these Peruvian whistles use to help them make their sounds?
What is water?
600
Frida Kahlo was a famous 20th century painter from this Middle America country that we visited, its cultural traditions are celebrated in several of her completed works.
What is Mexico?
700
Tasmanian Devils are herbivores or carnivores?
What is carnivore (meat eater)?
700
In the US people eat a lot of chicken, in China people eat a lot of this other type of poultry.
What is Roast Duck?
700
This building in Australia's capital city is world renowned for it's unique architecture and arches shaped like sails.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
700
When we visited Jamaica we learned about the history of these instruments, now synonymous with Caribbean Music.
What are Steel Drums?
700
Name this famous composer from Vienna, Austria.
Who is Mozart?
700
In Indian Weddings it's traditional for the bride to have Mehndi designs drawn on her hands and arms in intricate patterns with Henna (like a temporary tattoo). This is the desired color for the designs.
What is red?
800
Name this marsupial that can be found in North America (Left) and Australia (Right).
What is a possum (opossum)?
800
Poutine is a Canadian dish made up of these 3 ingredients:
French Fries, Gravy, & Cheese
800
This structure is not one continuous piece, but actually multiple fortifications that protected an Empire from invasion. You can't really see it from space (but maybe from a satellite low in the atmosphere).
What is The Great Wall of China?
800
This type of Martial Arts originated in China, you can see it practiced by Shaolin monks all over the world.
What is Kung Fu?
800
Name this Mexican Band that typically has at least 12 members: at least 6 violins, 3 trumpets, 1 bass guitar, 1 guitar, and 1 vihuela (tiny guitar like a Mexican version of a ukulele). They often wear very fancy matching outfits too.
What is a Mariachi band?
800
Name this French Artist known for his love of cats, and art style of giant collage that he called "Painting with scissors".
Who is Henri Matisse?
900
Orcas are the largest member of this marine mammal animal family.
What are dolphins?
900
In Peru they eat "Cuy" the meat of this small rodent, here in the US many people keep these animals as pets and it would be taboo to eat them.
What is Guinea Pig?
900
If you wanted to see "The Three Sisters" in The Blue Mountains, you'd visit this country. The Mountains look blue because all of the Eucalyptus trees.
What is Australia?
900
We saw Aztec fire dancers when we visited this country found in Middle America.
What is Mexico?
900
Name this Colorado singer who sang "Take Me Home Country Roads", "Grandma's Feather Bed", and "Rocky Mountain High".
Who is John Denver?
900
In this South American country that we visited we learned about Retablos, and how they are sculpted.
What is Peru?
1000
This small wild cat can be found throughout China in the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas. It is not much larger than an average house cat, but it grows a warm fluffy coat when it's cold and sheds it during warmer months.
What is a Pallas cat?
1000
Pai Fala or Half Moon Pies filled with Pineapple Custard are a sweet treat from this Polynesian Island Country, which is also Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson's ethnic heritage country.
What is Samoa?
1000
Name this UNESCO world heritage site we visited in China, where royalty lived and commoners were not allowed.
What is the Forbidden City?
1000
This is the significance of dance in Indian cultue?
What is a form of prayer, or devotion?
1000
The Guzheng is a Chinese stringed instrument, similar to what other instrument that we are familiar with (hint Erin has one).
What is a zither?
1000
In Mumbai we learned about this Indian alternative to Hollywood, they produce thousands of movies every year.
What is Bollywood?