Food
This noodle soup is a Vietnamese favorite, often served with herbs and lime.
What is Pho?
This genre of music from South Korea has taken the world by storm.
What is K-pop.
This southern U.S. city is famous for the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is Washington, D.C?
The artist known for self-portraits expressing pain and passion, she was married to muralist Diego Rivera and became an icon of Mexican culture
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Families gather the NIGHT before the main holiday and begin gift giving at midnight
What is Noche Buena?
This traditional dish, often made with slow-cooked pork, collard greens, black-eyed peas, and cornbread, became a symbol of African American culinary heritage in the South.
What is Soul Food?
This singer was born in Texas and is known as “Queen of Tejano Music"
Who is Selena?
This country has very similar language culture and food when compared to the Philippines due to its Spanish Colonial History
What is Mexico?
A neurosurgeon known for separating conjoined twins, he later ran for U.S. president.
Who is Ben Carson?
This holiday marks the Lunar New Year in many Asian cultures.
What is Chinese New Year?
This spicy Korean side dish is made from fermented cabbage.
What is Kimchi?
A daughter of a prominent Detroit minister and civil rights activist, this “Queen of Soul” turned a 1967 Otis Redding hit into a feminist and civil rights anthem with her powerful demand for “a little respect.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This Southeast Asian country is shaped like a dragon
What is Vietnam?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison and later became the country’s first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Also known as Emancipation Day in some states, this holiday commemorates the day enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally informed of their freedom, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Juneteenth?
This dish has African Roots and is often paired with Los Tres Golpes.
What is Mangu?
This Chinese instrument has a long neck and is often called the “Chinese guitar.
What is the Pipa?
This state hosts the only U.S. national historic park dedicated exclusively to African American history and culture, located in the town where Harriet Tubman was born.
What is Maryland?
This author wrote Beloved and became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This Colombian Holiday Is celebrated on Dec 7th on the eve of Immaculate Conception
What is Día de las Velitas?
Nayarit and Sinaloa have a very unique choice of protein when it comes to tamales. "What is it?"
What is shrimp?
This Harlem Renaissance-era jazz singer was nicknamed “The Empress of the Blues” and was one of the highest-paid Black entertainers of her time.
Who is Bessie Smith?
This country/ies domesticated what is now known as a potato, which grows in the high plateaus of the Andean Region of South America.
What is Peru/Bolivia?
In 1993, this Stanford-educated engineer became the first Hispanic woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Who is Ellen Ochoa?
Mooncakes, lanterns, and family gatherings under the full moon are central to this harvest festival.
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?