Food
This country is known for their spices, accounting for nearly 70% of the spice market worldwide in production and exportation.
What is India?
These German academics published multiple folklore stories, many of which became popular today. Some well-known titles include Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood.
What is the Brothers Grimm?
This Mexican tradition is dedicated to honor and celebrate the loved ones who've passed away using colorful marigold-filled altars, sugar sculls, and is coming up this Nov. 2nd.
What is Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead?
This country's traditional music comprises a variety of different styles such as ballads, reels, jigs, and airs. It's closely associated with bagpipes, tin whistle, accordion, and fiddle.
What is Scotland?
This pattern used to be linked to individuals who did not want to play by social rules, often worn by servants, court jesters, prostitutes, madmen, and criminals, not voluntarily but by official orders
What are stripes?
This country is known as the "cheese capital of the world" with over 1,500 varieties of cheeses.
Bonus: +1 point for every 5 cheeses from this country your team can name.
What is France?
Qualified cheese names are from this list: https://www.onlyfoods.net/types-of-french-cheese
This compilation of folklore stories was published by various authors and is known as the most famous book from the Middle East region. Some popular stories include Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor.
What is One Thousand and One Nights?
This Hindu celebration is dedicated to the triumph of good over evil and the arrival of spring, with its most notable tradition being the throwing of colored powder on friends and family.
What is Holi?
This region's music surged in popularity in the mid-1900s, with popular artists including Bad Bunny, Shakira, Tito Puente, Sergio Mendes, and Perez Prado.
Bonus: +1 point if you can name the nationality of each artist mentioned.
What is Latin music?
Bad Bunny - Puerto Rico
Shakira - Colombia
Tito Puente - USA
Sergio Mendes - Brazil
Perez Prado - Cuba
This craft is believed to have originated in Venice. It involves the making of fabric from yarn or thread, arranging it in an open web-like pattern, and the technique has evolved from three forms of embroidery.
Bonus: +1 point for naming the 3 forms of embroidery.
What is lacemaking?
(1) little loops and picots decorating the collar and cuff edges of shirts and smocks; (2) open-work seaming, linking widths of fabric; and (3) cutwork. Cutwork started as decorative stitching worked within small spaces cut out of linen.
This country enjoys raw horse meat as a popular delicacy, especially in the Kumamoto region.
What is Japan?
This teenage Chinese deity is known as a patron saint for misfits in society and is known for wielding a fire-tipped spear and Wind Fire Wheels. His story was made into a Netflix movie in 2021, grossing $21.3 million during their opening weekend.
What is Nezha?
This Jewish tradition begins 5 days after Yom Kippur, in which they reside in a temporary outdoor structure with at least 3 walls and a roof made of bamboo, palm fronds, or branches. They shake lulav and etrog.
What is Sukkot / Festival of Booths / Feast of Tabernacles?
Multiple popular genres of music within the U.S. were influenced by this culture, developing as a result of enslavement prior to the Civil War.
Bonus: +1 point for each genre you can name that was influenced by this culture.
What is African-American culture?
Bonus: Classical, Jazz, Country, EDM, Folk, Bluegrass, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, R&B, Techno, and Trap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_music)
This culture's clothing were made of hemp, and later decorated with a method called paj ntaub, an intricate needlework made by hand where pieces or patches of fabric with different shapes and patterns are sewn onto a bigger background fabric.
Hint: this is part of my culture :)
What is Hmong culture?
This country eats a fermented herring, often paired with flatbread and potatoes.
Bonus: +1 point if you can name where it is usually eaten. +3 points if you can name this dish.
What is Sweden?
Bonus: What is eating outside? What is surströmming?
This Australian folktale published by Eric Maddern tells the story of how fire was shared by a bird, who had taken them from a hoarding crocodile.
What is The Rainbow Bird?
This Spanish tradition is hosted on the last Wednesday of August and consists of people throwing tomatoes at each other.
Bonus: +1 point for naming the town in Spain that this tradition originated in.
What is La Tomatina?
Bonus: Buñol, Spain
This culture's classical music played a significant influence and fusion with Western music, most notably The Beatles mixing a sitar in their song "Norwegian Wood" (This Bird Has Flown).
What is Indian music?
This culture's jewelry was a crucial part of bridal outfits. Notable designs include colossal clasps, head ornaments hung with clusters of rustling pendants, or chains strung with coins and pinned across the body, to mark rites of passage, protect from evil spirits and to create a jangling accompaniment to music when dancing.
Bonus: +1 point for naming the base most of their jewelry was made of.
What is Balkan culture?
Bonus: copper
This country is so vast that there are many areas that vehicles cannot access. As such, they use camels to deliver food, including catering for weddings and parties.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This popular Native American folktale tells the story of a Seneca girl named Lelawala, who, grief-struck by the death of her husband, prays to god Heno for a quick death. Instead, Heno has Lelawala marry his son, warns her of a serpent who plans to harm the Seneca people, and (upon request by Lelawala) strikes down the serpents with thunder, thus creating the crescent shape at Niagara Falls.
What is the Legend of the Maid of the Mist? ("Maid of the Mist" is also acceptable)
This Japanese festival is rooted in a romantic legend of two star-crossed lovers: Princess Orihime and cowherd Hikoboshi. It is celebrated over the summer between July and August due to the disparity between the Japanese lunisolar calendar and Gregorian calendar, however, is meant to be held on the 7th day of the 7th month of the year.
Bonus: +1 point if you can give the Japanese name as well.
What is Tanabata / Star Festival?
In the Middle East this culture's music stands out for its use of microtones—notes that exist between the keys of a piano.
What is Arabic music?
This culture's traditional headscarf / headdress has tassels to ward off a malevolent spirit in yemenite folklore.
What is Jewish culture?