Elements of Folk Culture
Religion Roundup
Language Potpourri
Starts with “E”
Language Loss
Culture Clash
200
What sport started as a folk culture sport but is now a major part of global popular culture?
Soccer
200
Which of these religions is polytheistic?
Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism
Hinduism
200
Which country in the world has the most official languages?
Zimbabwe (16 official languages!)
200
This is different from race because it is based on a shared heritage rather than physical characteristics.
Ethnicity
200
What is the term for a language that is vulnerable to extinction?
Endangered Language
200
Which of these is a centripetal force?
A heterogeneous society, nativism, nationalism
Nationalism
400
Which folk culture refuses to use electricity and modern technology?
The Amish
400
Put these religions in order from most to least followers:
Islam, Judaism, Buddhism
Islam
Buddhism
Judaism
400
Name three of the five Romance languages.
Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian
400
Contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus are all types of what kind of diffusion?
Expansion diffusion
400
What extinct language is still studied in many schools around the world?
Latin
400
In which country did linguistic clashes between French and English groups reach their height in the 1970s?
Canada
600
Where can you find Cajun folk culture?
Louisiana and surrounding areas
600
Which of these religions is universalizing?
Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism
Sikhism
600
What term describes word usage boundaries that allow linguists to see the geographic divisions between dialects?
Isoglosses
600
Little Italy and Chinatown in New York are examples of what?
Ethnic enclaves
600
How did Hebrew become a revived language in the mid-20th century?
It became the official language of Israel
600
Which two religious groups engaged in deadly clashes in Northern Ireland in the 1960s?
Catholics and Protestants
800
People belonging to which folk culture were persecuted by the Nazis during WWII? (Hint - Judaism is not a folk culture)
Romani
800
Which of these religions share a hearth?
Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism
Hinduism and Buddhism
800
How many languages are spoken by more than 100 million people?
11
800
What theory specifies that natural surroundings are a major factor in shaping culture?
Environmental Determinism
800
What isolated language is spoken by more than 75 million people?
Korean
800
Which two ethnic groups were at odds in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide?
Hutus and Tutsis
1000
What folk culture does this girl 
belong to?
Maori
1000
Put these religions in alphabetical order based on the name of their religious texts:
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Christianity (Bible)
Islam (Quran)
Judaism (Torah)
1000
What kind of language has no native speakers?
Pidgin
1000
Believing that your ethnicity is superior to all others
Ethnocentricism
1000
Name four of the six lingua francas.
English, Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, French, Russian
1000
What is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?
Genocide is the destruction of an ethnic group by murder and ethnic cleansing is the removal of an ethnic group from an area and can occur by other means.