Festival Basics
This flower is often associated with Avurudu.
What is Erabadu Flower?
These stalls offer free food and drink to the public during Vesak.
What are Dansals?
During Vesak, this flower symbolizing the impermanence of life, is commonly offered at temples.
What is a lotus flower?
The full phase of this celestial body considered especially auspicious in Buddhist tradition, marking important events like Vesak.
What is the moon?
This is the Tamil term for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.
What is Puthandu?
This Tamil month marks the celebration of Thaipongal.
What is Thai?
This fruit is commonly seen during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year table and is believed to bring prosperity.
What are Bananas?
This is the name for the "auspicious time" when rituals like lighting the hearth take place.
What is Nakath?
This is a celebration when the sun moves from Pisces to Aries?
What is the Sinhala and Tamil New Year?
The Thai Pongal festival lasts for this many days.
What is four?
This day marks the beginning of the Easter season, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus.
What is Good Friday?
This wobbly, caramel-colored dessert made with jaggery, coconut milk, and eggs is a Ramadan and Eid favorite in Sri Lanka.
What is Watalappan?
During Ramadan, people greet each other with this phrase.
What is "Ramadan Mubarak" or "Ramadan Kareem" or "Eid Mubarak"?
Because the Islamic calendar is lunar, Ramadan moves earlier each year by approximately this many days in the Gregorian calendar.
What is 10 to 11 days?
The United Nations officially recognized Vesak Day as an international day of observance in this year.
What is 1999?
These are the three events commemorated on Vesak.
Birth, Enlightenment, and Death of Lord Buddha.
This rice dish shares its name with the festival it’s made for and is cooked until the milk overflows—seen as a sign of prosperity.
What is Pongal?
People face this direction when cooking Pongal outdoors.
What is East?
Which festival is celebrated when the sun enters Capricorn?
What is Thai Pongal?
In this country, the fasting time during Ramadan can last up to 20 hours due to its northern location, and Muslims must adjust the time of breaking fast.
What is Finland?
This pre-dawn meal is traditionally eaten by Muslims before the fasting period begins during Ramadan.
What is Suhoor?
This sweet, spiced bread with raisins and topped with icing is traditionally eaten in many countries on Good Friday.
What is a Hot Cross Buns?
This flower, often white or purple, symbolizes Easter and it is associated with purity, resurrection, and new life, in many Christian cultures.
What are Lillies?
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following this event.
What is the spring equinox?
In Orthodox Christianity, Easter often falls on a different date than in the West due to use of this older calendar.
What is the Julian calendar?