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Dance
100
Located in Mumbai, India this is the largest center of film, music, and dancing for Hindi Cinema in the world.
What is Bollywood?
100
This big cat is the fastest land animal, they can reach speeds of up to 70 mph.
What are Cheetahs?
100
In Tennessee we visited Memphis, this city is known as the Home of the Blues as well as the Birthplace of Rock'n'roll. Memphis is also the birthplace of this Queen of Soul who was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
100
This Huge Hollywood Movie Production inspired by the music of Abba was filmed in Greece, it helped stimulate their economy by increasing tourism to its many many islands.
What is Mamma Mia?
100
In Japan they are surrounded by water, so many of their meals utilise seafood or fish. This is the name they use for raw fish and rice?
What is Sushi?
100
In Japan we learned about Shintoism and the symbolism of this animal, it has magical abilities and can carry messages back and forth from our realm to the spirit realm. For every 100 years they live they grow another tail.
What are Fox or Kitsune?
100
In Greece we learned about this traditional music and dance.
What is Zorba?
200
This city is the capital of Ireland.
What is Dublin?
200
We visited the Democratic Republic of Congo and learned about these great apes that share nearly 98% of their DNA with humans.
What are Gorillas?
200
This famous Welshman began his musical career with a series of top ten hits starting in the 1960s.
Who is Tom Jones?
200
This Canadian is a Country Music Superstar, she had hits with "That don't impress me much" and "Man, I feel like a woman".
Who is Shania Twain?
200
Name this traditional Mexican food, where the tortilla is your plate (this makes it the perfect no-waste street food).
What are tacos?
200
These statues are called Fu Dogs or Fu Lions and also come in a set of two, the female has a cub under her paw and the male has a ball under his paw. They serve this purpose. (hint this is why they are scary looking).
What is to protect or guard a space?
200
This traditional dance and music from Spain is never choreographed. Instead it is like a language silently communicated, between the dancer and guitar player.
What is Flamenco?
300
This capital city of France is known as the city of lights.
What is Paris?
300
This is the name for all baby marsupials when they're still reliant on their mother's pouches. It's a pretty common name for people too.
What are Joeys?
300
The tomb of this Pharaoh was found almost entirely intact, making him the most well-known Pharaoh ever.
Who is Tutankhamun or King Tut?
300
The Guzheng is the Chinese equivalent of this type of instrument.
What is a Zither?
300
Travelling in the Alps you may see cows adorned with beautiful cowbells, and thanks to these cows this country invented milk chocolate.
What is Switzerland?
300
These Japanese entertainers' name comes from a word that literally translates to "Arts person".
What is Geisha?
300
In Hawaii we learned about this type of dance & music that expresses the language of nature.
What is Hula?
400
We learned about the history of country music, Dolly Parton and the Grand Ole Opry when we visited this state.
What is Tennessee?
400
In the northernmost parts of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, & Finland) we learned about the Sami People who herd/raise these animals.
What are Reindeer?
400
We toured the Rocky Mountains and learned about this American folk artist, nature conservationist, and avid pilot.
Who is John Denver?
400
This type of Mexican Band features a lot of different instruments: usually 6 violins, 3 trumpets, 1 bass guitar, 1 guitar, and 1 vihuela, and an accordion. They often wear very fancy matching outfits too.
What is a Mariachi Band?
400
This is the most famous sandwich in Pennsylvania, it was invented in Philadelphia in 1930 by Pat Olivieri who was a hot dog vendor. Today if you order one you might say "whiz wit" or "whiz witout" to mean whether or not you want onions on yours.
What is a Cheesesteak?
400
Name this Festival that takes place on the 15th day of every Chinese New Year Celebration, it's celebrated with wonderful light displays and named for an object featured in the picture clue.
What is The Lantern Festival?
400
This Tennessean superstar known for her amazing dance moves has been dubbed The Queen of Rock'n'Roll and topped the charts for decades.
Who is Tina Turner?
500
Nicknamed the city of "brotherly love" and found in Pennsylvania, it was the nations first capital, also home to the Liberty Bell, the oldest zoo in the US, birthplace of the cheesesteak, & has more murals than any other city in the United States.
What is Philadelphia?
500
We saw these wild canine relatives when we visited Isle Royale Natl. Park in Upstate Michigan.
What are wolves?
500
This Austrian Composer from Vienna.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
This French Impressionist Composer was born into poverty, however his musical talents propelled him to the position of being one of the most influential composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
Who is Claude DeBussy?
500
Poutine is a Canadian dish with these 3 ingredients.
What are French fries, gravy, & cheese?
500
Every spring in Japan, people gather for large festivals to practice Hanami or flower viewing while picnicking together and watching these trees bloom.
What are Cherry Blossom or Sakura Trees?
500
The 1970s meant the age of Disco Dancing and one of the leading music groups came from Sweden, we even saw a museum dedicated to them in Stockholm. Their music inspired two major motion pictures.
Who are Abba?
600
In Barcelona we visited the fantastic structures created by this Catalan, nicknamed "God's Architect" who was inspired by nature and is referred to as a modernist.
Who is Antoni Gaudi?
600
This animal is a mammal but lays eggs, and its babies are called puggles.
What are Platypus?
600
This is the Patron Saint of Ireland.
Who is St. Patrick?
600
We listened to this California band founded in the 1960s, headed by John Fogerty. They had hits with "Proud Mary", "Born On the Bayou", "Fortunate Son", and "Bad Moon Rising'".
Who are CCR or Creedence Clearwater Revival?
600
This Mardi Gras Sweet treat is usually iced and decorated with the three traditional colors of the holiday (purple for justice, green for faith, and gold for power). If you're lucky you might find a plastic baby in your slice.
What is King Cake?
600
Hogmany is the name of the New Year's celebration in this country.
What is Scotland?
600
This traditional type of music and step-dancing has a really short name, it is as popular here in the US as it is in Ireland where it originated.
What is a Jig?
700
This city in Michigan is known as the Motor City because it's where Ford created his automotive empire. It was also home to Motown Records that boasted some of the biggest artists of the 1950s & 60s including Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Marvelettes, The Temptations, & The Supremes.
What is Detroit?
700
In Romania we saw these very large bovine mammals that are gradually making a comeback (normally when we think about them we envision the wild west and plains or the back of some nickels).
What are Bison?
700
This American Artist was born in Massachusetts, studied in Paris, and taught at Howard University for nearly 50 years.
Who is Lois Maillou Jones?
700
This stringed Hawaiian instrument is like a tiny guitar.
What is a Ukulele?
700
In Spain it's common to be given a complimentary "small plate" or "small dish" to accompany your drinks when you go out to a restaurant or cafe. This is what they call these dishes".
What are Tapas?
700
Name this Samoan Entertainer, Actor, and Voice Artist who celebrated his Polynesian Ancestry when he voiced the Demi-god Maui in Moana.
Who is Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)?
700
Ballet is considered one of the most challenging forms of dance to master due to the athleticism that it requires. This Russian Composer wrote two of the most famous ballets ever, The Nutcracker & Swan Lake.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
800
This megacity is the capital of Japan?
What is Tokyo?
800
Known as snow or sea bears these animals actually have black skin and transluscent fur.
What are Polar Bears?
800
This artist was a founder of Surrealism and easily recognised by his pencil thin handlebar moustache.
Who is Salvador Dali?
800
This composer had a symphony for each season, including Winter.
Who is Vivaldi?
800
On our Scandinavian Adventure we saw a lot of foods we're familiar with here (potato pancakes, pickled cabbage, potato salad, smoked fish, open-face sandwiches) and then this food. Here you may have them in spaghetti sauce, but in Sweden they're typically served in a sweet sauce like jam or gravy.
What are meatballs?
800
We learned about Thanksgiving traditions, and talked about this boat that brought the Pilgrims to North America.
What is the Mayflower?
800
When we visited this country we learned that dance can be used as a means of Devotion/Prayer in Hinduism.
What is India?