Childhood Snacks
School Days
Playground Games
Saturday Morning
Family Traditions
100
This Indian fried snack filled with spiced potatoes is a staple school lunchbox treat and street food favorite.
What is a samosa?
100
In the UK, children sit these national exams at age 16, which often determine their path to university.
What are GCSEs?
100
In this global playground classic, one child closes their eyes and counts while others hide — then hunts them down.
What is hide and seek?
100
UK children of the 90s woke up for this Saturday morning BBC show featuring games, pop acts, and chaotic celebrity interviews.
What is Live & Kicking / SM:TV Live?
100
In India, this five-day festival of lights involves oil lamps, fireworks, sweets, and new clothes for the whole family.
What is Diwali?
200
This UK chocolate bar — a biscuit finger coated in milk chocolate — has been a children's teatime treat since 1935.
What is a Kit Kat?
200
In China, this notoriously difficult university entrance exam — taken after 12 years of school — decides your entire future.
What is the Gaokao?
200
Known across South Asia, players take turns raiding the opposing team's half while holding their breath and chanting their team name.
What is Kabaddi?
200
American kids in the 80s and 90s watched this Hanna-Barbera cartoon every Saturday — featuring a mystery-solving Great Dane and his cowardly owner.
What is Scooby-Doo?
200
During Chinese New Year, elders give children these filled with money as a symbol of good luck and prosperity.
What is hongbao (red envelopes)?
300
In China, children loved these sugar-coated hawthorn berries on a stick, sold by street vendors especially in winter.
What is tanghulu?
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300
In Latvia and Lithuania, students traditionally receive flowers from parents and younger pupils on this first day back each September.
What is the first day of school?
300
Globally, this game involves children jumping in and out of a rope swung by two others — a test of timing and rhythm.
What is jump rope/skipping?
300
This beloved blue, earless cartoon cat with a 4D pocket has been a Saturday morning staple across Asia since the 1990s.
What is Doraemon?
300
In Latvia, this midsummer festival on June 23rd involves bonfires, flower crowns, folk songs, and staying up all night.
What is Jāņi (Midsummer)?
400
This salty Baltic snack — dark rye bread cut into sticks and dried — is a childhood staple in both Latvia and Lithuania.
What is rupjmaizes krutoni / kepta duona?
400
In India, this high-stakes national exam taken after Grade 12 is the gateway to top engineering colleges.
What is the JEE (Joint Entrance Examination)
400
This Chinese playground game involves hopping through numbered squares drawn on the ground with chalk.
What is tiao fang zi (hopscotch)
400
Children across Latvia and Lithuania grew up watching this beloved Soviet-era cartoon about a small bear-like creature and his crocodile friend who loves to sing.
What is Cheburashka / Krokodil Gena?
400
On this UK and US autumn tradition, children dress in costumes and go door-to-door asking for sweets or candy.
What is Halloween / trick-or-treating?
500
American kids of the 80s and 90s obsessed over this lunchbox drink that came in a silver pouch with a tiny straw.
What is Capri Sun?
500
This classroom punishment — writing the same sentence 100 times — was common in UK and US schools before it was phased out.
What are lines?
500
In this US and UK schoolyard classic, players hit a rubber ball with their fist or foot and run around a set of bases.
What is kickball/rounders?
500
This iconic Indian animated series, first broadcast in 1987 on Doordarshan, followed a boy through adventures inspired by a classic jungle tale.
What is The Jungle Book (Mowgli)?
500
In Lithuania, this tradition involves exactly 12 meatless dishes — one for each apostle — eaten with the whole family.
What is Kūčios (Lithuanian Christmas Eve)?
