Igbo Language
Food & Drinks
Traditions & Customs
History & Identity
Proverbs & Wisdom
100

What does “Kedu?” mean in English?  

What is “How are you?” or “Hello/How are you?”

100

What staple crop is especially associated with men’s cultivation in traditional Igbo society?

What is yam?

100

What is the name for the colorful masked performance tradition found in Igbo culture?

What is masquerade/mmonwu?

100

The Igbo are chiefly from which part of Nigeria?

What is southeastern Nigeria?

100

Chinua Achebe famously said proverbs are the palm oil with which what is eaten?

What are words?

200

What is the Igbo word for God often used in names like Chukwuemeka?

What is Chukwu?

200

Name the nut often used in greetings and traditional gatherings.  

What is kola nut?

200

What is the traditional Igbo spiritual system called?

What is Odinani/Odinala?

200

What other spelling of Igbo does Britannica list?

What is Ibo?

200

Complete this proverb idea: “If a snake fails to show its venom, little kids will use it in tying .”  

What is firewood?

300

What is the Igbo word for children?

What is ụmụaka?

300

In many traditional marriage rites, what drink does the bride use to identify the groom in the crowd?

What is palm wine?

300

In traditional Igbo belief, who is the creator god?

Who is Chukwu or Chineke?

300

Before European colonization, were the Igbo united?

What are autonomous local communities?

300

Which animal in an Igbo proverb says trouble is its own and carries it on its back?

What is the tortoise?

400

Igbo belongs to what larger language family branch mentioned by Britannica?

What is the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family?

400

Britannica lists three traditional staples: yams, cassava, and what third crop?

What is Ede?

400

What is the name of the patrilineage or extended kin group that traditionally occupied a village compound?

What is umunna?

400

What was the name of the independent nation the Igbo-dominated Eastern Region attempted to form in 1967?  

What is Biafra?

400

E gbuo dike n'ogu uno, e ruo n'ogu agu e lote ya” warns people not to destroy whom?

Who are their leaders/warriors?

500

Before standardization, Igbo was spoken across several regional divisions; name any two of the divisions Britannica lists.

What are northern, southern, western, eastern/Cross River, or northeastern?

500

Besides palm oil, what second palm product does Britannica list as a principal export?  

What are palm kernels?

500

In traditional Igbo society, authority in the village group was vested in what body of leaders?  

What is a council of lineage heads and influential/wealthy men?

500

Britannica says the largest political unit before colonial administration was what?

What is the village group, a federation of villages?

500

Which proverb teaches flexibility: the wife makes the soup watery, so the husband learns to do what before dipping it?

What is dent or shape the fufu/swallow in his hand before dipping it?

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