Christmas
Hannukah
Makar Sankranti
Lunar New Year
Yule
100
Who celebrates Christmas?
a) 仏教と
b) Anyone who wants to
c) Americans
b) Anyone who wants to
Christmas is celebrated by both Christians and non-Christians.
100
Hannukah is celebrated by:
a) Australians
b) The Jewish people
c) Vietnamese people
b) The Jewish people (ユダヤ人)
100
Makar Sankranti is celebrated by:
a) Indians
b) Muslims
c) First Nations people
a) Indians
Makar Sankranti is a Hindu holiday celebrated by people from India.
100
Lunar New Year is celebrated by:
a) Chinese People
b) Brazilians
c) Russians
a) Chinese people
China and countries connected to China (中国関係な国) like Vietnam and Korea celebrate lunar new year.
100
Yule is celebrated by:
a) Chinese people
b) Christians
c) Alice sensei
c) Alice sensei
Alice sensei is a "Pagan."
Pagans follow a religion with many nature gods (神々)
200
The word Christmas means:
a) Jesus Christ's day
b) Winter feast
c) Santa's day
Christianity has special days for saints (聖人) and Christmas is the special day for Jesus.
200
The English name for Hannukah is:
a) Festival of lights
b) Festival of snow
c) New Years
a) Festival of lights
Hannukah celebrates a miracle.
The Jewish people needed a light to burn for eight days.
They only had enough oil for one day.
But it lasted for all eight!
200
Makar Sankranti celebrates:
a) The moon.
b) Snow.
c) The sun.
c) The sun
Makar Sankranti celebrates the days becoming longer.
200
Lunar New Year is also known as:
a) Dong zhi - Midwinter
b) Chun Jie - The spring festival
c) Yuan dan - New Years
b) Chun Jie - the Spring Festival
Lunar New Year marks the start of spring, but in many places it is still snowy at Lunar New Year.
200
The name Yule comes from the title of a god named Odin. That title is:
a) the stormy man (Ýjungr)
b) All-Father (Aldafaðr)
c) The joking man (Jolnir)
c) The joking man (Jolnir)
Yule is a time for tricks, gift giving and happiness.
As the god of tricks, Odin is the Yule-man.
300
a) Go to shrines.
b) Give each other presents.
c) Stay up till midnight.
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300
On Hannukah, Jewish people:
a) Go swimming.
b) Play with tops (こま)
c) Go sledding.
b) Play with tops.
On Hannukah people play games with tops called "dreidels"
300
On Makar Sankranti people celebrate by:
a) Flying kites.
b) making snowmen.
c) Riding bikes.
a) Flying kites
300
During Lunar New Year, people:
a) Do lion dances.
b) Watch fireworks.
c) Give money to children.
d) All three!
Lunar New Year has lots of activities to do! These include lion dances, fireworks, and giving red packets of money to children.
300
To celebrate Yule, Pagans:
a) Magic spells!
b) Light a big fire.
c) Stay up all night.
d) all of the above!
Some Pagans do magic.
Some Pagans light a bonfire.
Some Pagans stay up all night.
400
During Christmas people eat:
a) Cookies
b) Turkey
c) Ham
d) All of them!
During Christmas people eat Christmas cookies and turkey or ham.
400
At Hannukah people eat:
a) Cake.
b) Turkey.
c) Fried potatoes.
c) Fried Potatoes.
During Hannukah people eat fried potato pancakes called "Latkes"
400
During Makar Sankranti people eat:
a) Sesame candy
b) Chocolate cake
c) Beef stew
a) Sesame candy
Sesame candy called ladoo is eaten
400
During Lunar New Year people eat:
a) very long noodles
b) peanut butter
c) tacos
a) Very long noodles
Many families eat noodles that are as long as possible. These are called Longevity Noodles. They are meant to bring long life.
400
During Yule, Pagans drink:
a) Eggnog
b) Coffee
c) Honey-beer (蜂蜜ビール)
c) Honey-beer
During winter festivals Pagans drink a honey beer called "mead"
500
Santa is a man who lived in 100 CE. Santa lived in:
a) Canada
b) Germany (ドイツ)
c) Turkey (トルコ)
c) Turkey
500
Hannukah lasts:
a) one month
b) one day
c) eight days
c) eight days!
Each day one more candle is lit!
500
Sometimes Makar Sankranti
gets much bigger, this is because:
a) There is a huge kite festival.
b) They have too many sesame seeds.
c) Lots of people travel to see holy rivers (聖川).
c) Lots of people travel to see holy rivers
Once every 12 years Makar Sankranti gets really big because people come to visit holy rivers. This is called Kumbha Mela.
500
The Lunar New Year's greeting
Gong Xi Fa Cai means:
a) Happy New Year!
b) I hope you get lots of money!
c) Don't Worry, Be Happy
b) I hope you get lots of money!
500
Another name for Pagans is:
a) Witches
b) Vikings
c) Wizards
a) Witches
Europe's old gods (神々) were called demons by Christians and belief in them was called witchcraft.
Modern witches aren't scary.
