A VERY CHINESE TIME
Home to the forbidden city, this is the capital city of China.
What is Beijing?
What does the Italian word, “espresso” translate to?
What is Pressed Out?
Celebrated on February 14th, flower sales peak due to this holiday.
When is Valentine’s Day?
This mountain in Japan is actually an active volcano, although its last eruption occurred in the early 1700s.
Where is Mount Fuji?
During this phase change, a liquid absorbs enough energy to become a gas.
What is Evaporation?
The world’s longest manmade structure, this is sometimes falsely believed to be visible from space.
What is the Great Wall of China?
What South Asian country produces the most bananas per year?
Where is India?
Lest We Forget
When is Remembrance Day?
O.J. Simpsons was accused (and later acquitted) of murdering someone in this city.
Where is Los Angeles?
Harry Potter phases through a solid brick barrier at King’s Cross at this platform number.
What is Platform 9 3/4?
According to the Chinese Calendar, we are currently in the Year of this zodiac sign.
What is the Year of the Horse?
This is the active ingredient in chili peppers that gives them their spicy taste.
What is Capsaicin?
This North American holiday traces its modern form to 17th-century harvest celebrations, but its national observance was standardized much later in the United States.
When is Thanksgiving?
This desert in northern Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
Where is the Sahara Desert?
This cycle is marked by 4 phases: the period, follicular phase, ovulation, and the luteal phase.
What is The Menstrual Cycle?
Get ready to learn Chinese: The written character system is called this.
What is Hànzì?
When trying to make chocolate flavored cookies, a baker accidentally made which well-loved cookie instead? (bonus points for baker’s name)
What is Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Who is Ruth Wakefield?
Also sometimes known as “Fat Tuesday”, this festival marks the end of Lent in many Christian traditions and refers to a period of indulgence before fasting begins.
When is Carnival (Mardi Gras season)?
This lake between Canada and the United States contains enough freshwater to cover both countries in about a foot of water.
Where is Lake Superior?
Although there are many states of matter, these are the four observable ones.
What are Solid, Liquid, Gas and Plasma?
Once called “White Gold”, this product was primarily produced in China and was sold through a 4,000 mile long network of trading routes.
What is Silk?
This sweetener became globally dominant after European colonial expansion, with the production heavily tied to plantation economies in the Caribbean.
What is Sugar?
This spring festival originates from pre-Christian European traditions celebrating the vernal equinox and is now symbolically associated with eggs and rebirth.
When is Easter?
This country has the most neighboring countries in the world, sharing land borders with 14 nations.
Where is China?
Just before or just after a full moon is referred to as waning or waxing what?
What is Gibbous?