Celebrities
What is the name of this Ethiopian, Swedish-American Celebrity Chef that you may recognize from the food network?
Who is Marcus Samuelsson?
How many km of coastline does Ethiopia have?
What is 0 km? (Ethiopia is landlocked)
What is the name of this famous Ethiopian singer/songwriter?
Who is Teddy Afro?
The following all mean what English word when translated? Libe/libi/onnee
What is Heart?
This man is the current president of Eritrea.
Who is Isaias Aferwki?
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known professionally as the Weeknd, is an Ethiopian-Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer. What is his most popular song?
What is Blinding Lights?
What is the name of the ancient kingdom still found in Northern Ethiopia containing present-day northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, eastern Sudan, and southeastern Yemen that was thought to be established by the Queen of Sheba?
What is Axum?
This bowed lute is commonly found within Ethiopian and Eritrean musical traditions and only contains one string.
What is a Masenqo?
How many languages are believed to be spoken in Ethiopia?
What is 80? (other acceptable answer is “over 80” or “roughly 80”)
Originally planned to be held in August 2020, the Ethiopian general election was postponed due to COVID-19. What month in the year 2021 did the Ethiopian general elections take place?
What is June?
This Eritrean-American rapper, activist, and entrepreneur founded his own company, The Marathon Clothing Store, and was awarded 2 Grammys for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap/Sung Performance.
Who is Nipsey Hussle?
What city in Eritrea often referred to as “Africa’s Miami” for its creatively decorated buildings received designation as a World Heritage site by Unesco in 2017?
What is Asmara?
This Eritrean-American musical group consists of three sisters and is known to have appeared on America’s Got Talent singing the Jackson 5’s song “I Want You Back”
Who are the “EriAm Sisters”?
What language is the following phrase from and how do you respond ? Feya new? Feya nesh?
What is Guraginya and Feya?
What is the name of the party, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, that won the most parliamentary seats in the recent Ethiopian General Election (2021)?
What is the Prosperity Party?
Eritrean-American Comedian Tiffany Hadish is well known for her roles in movies and TV shows. However, she is also an author and published her New York Times best selling book in 2017 entitled this.
What is The Last Black Unicorn?
Ethiopia is home to one of the world’s lowest places at 100 m below sea level, receiving only 100 mm of rain each year. What is the name of this place?
What is Danakil Depression?
This person is known for having designed the latest version of the Ethiopian flag in 2009.
Who is Abebe Alamo?
Say the following sentence in tigrinya and amharic: “Ever since I crashed my car I don’t like to drive”
Amharic: What is ” mekinaye ketegache behwala mendat alwedim"?
Tigrinya: What is "Mekina kab z’harmku, mezaweri ay’fetwinye"?
How much money is the Qatari national Bank currently attempting to sue the Eritrean government for? (For scale, Eritrea's GDP is about $2 billion USD)?
What is $300 million USD?
Ruth Berhe, also known as Ruth B, is an Ethiopian-Canadian Singer Songwriter who started her career on the popular app vine in 2013. Her hit single entitled this has 600 million streams on spotify.
What is Lost Boy?
In comparison to which US State is Eritrea 1% larger?
What is Pennsylvania?
This small town/archeological site in Eritrea in the Debub region of Eritrea was a major city of the D’mt kingdom with artifacts currently in possession by the Ethiopian government.
What is Matara/Metera?
How long has the wolaytta language had a written alphabet?
What is since the 1940s?
Extra history: Wolaytta has existed in written form since the 1940s, when the Sudan Interior Mission first devised a system for writing it. The writing system was later revised by a team led by Dr. Bruce Adams.
Roughly how many total cases of COVID-19 have there been in Ethiopia or Eritrea (we will give points if you can get either one)?
Ethiopia: What is 300,000?
Eritrea: What is 6,000?