Maha Shivaratri
What is the common Maha Shivaratri tradition?
What is staying up all night and fasting
What outdoor activity is associated with Sankranti?
What season is Holi ushering in?
What is spring?
How many years was Rama exiled from Ayodhya?
What is 14 years
What is 9 days?
Why is Maha Shivaratri special?
What is the day that Shiva performs the Tandava OR what is the day he married Parvati?
What is the significance of the day that Sankranti falls on?
Who is Holi named after?
Who is Holika, the demon that Prahaladha defeated
What God(dess) is thought to walk into peoples homes on Diwali?
Who is Lakshmi devi
What is the tradition of Karva Chauth?
What is women fast all day to pray for their husbands good health
What does the Tandava represent?
What are creation, preservation and destruction?
Why is milk boiled on Sankranti?
What is it is a symbol of abundance, prosperity and good luck if it overflows
What Hindu God is credited with starting the tradition of colors on Holi?
Who is Krishna
Other than Hindus, what two other religions celebrate Diwali?
Who are Sikhs and Jains
What is the only Hindu holiday that uses the solar instead of lunar calendar?
Sankranti
What day of the lunar cycle is Shivaratri celebrated on?
What is the day before the New Moon
Who in the Mahabharatha waits until Sankrati to die?
Who is Bhishma
Other than in India, where else is Holi a national holiday?
What is the name of the demon that Krishna/Satyabhama defeat?
Who is Narakasura
What does Onam celebrate?
What is the end of the monsoon season
What is nishitha kala?
What is the time that Shiva takes the form of the Linga
What sun sign do we enter on Sankranti? (both Indian and Western)
What are Makara and Capricorn
What God is smited by Shiva in a Holi myth from South and East India?
Who is Kamadeva
What does Diwali mean in Sanskrit?
What is "row of lights"
Why is Dusshara considered an important day for Buddhists?
What is it is the day King Ashoka converted to Buddhism