CPO
Cultural Foods
Traditions
Stony Brook
Cultural Games and Sports
100

This is a single 20-minute in-person confidential session with a counselor.

What is Let’s Talk?

100

This is considered Indonesia's national dish, this take on Asian fried rice is often made with sweet, thick soy sauce called kecap (pronounced ketchup) and garnished with acar, pickled cucumber and carrots. 

What is Nasi Goreng?

100

For nine nights starting December 16, people dressed as Mary and Joseph (often with Mary on a donkey), lead throngs of Christians through towns and cities in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and parts of the southwestern U.S., reenacting the couple’s pilgrimage before Jesus’s birth in a manger in Bethlehem.

What is Las Posadas?

100

This is a location where students can get Stony Brook merchandise on campus. 

What is Shop Red West?

100

This is played between two teams on a usually rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking.

What is football (soccer)?

200

This is a certificate and cord given to those who complete the three bystander intervention trainings by the end of the semester before they graduate.

What is the Upstander Award?

200

This is a colorful umbrella of a term that encompasses virtually any combination of starch and braised or stewed meat, with an obligatory side-serving of spicy gravy, relish or chakalaka.

What is pap en vleis?

200

This is a Hindu festival that spans nine nights (and ten days) and is celebrated every year in the autumn.

What is Navaratri?

200

This is the name of the one online application that students can use to search for internship and job opportunities.

What is Handshake?

200

This is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object.

What is hopscotch?

300

This is someone who acts as a confidential resource for students who have experienced sexual or relationship violence.

Who is the survivor advocate and prevention specialist?

300

This is a mixed rice dish that is made with spices, rice, and usually some type of meat or in some cases without any meat, and sometimes, in addition, eggs and potatoes.

What is biryani?

300

This is also known as "Festival of Breaking the Fast," is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the month-long fasting of Ramadan. It is typically celebrated for 1 to 3 days, and includes an act of charity and prayer.

What is Eid-al-Fitr?

300

This is the name for the SBU 101 teaching assistant.

What is the Undergraduate College Fellow?

300

This is a tabletop game of Indian origin. The game is very popular in the Indian subcontinent, and is known by various names in different languages. In South Asia, many clubs and cafés hold regular tournaments.

What is Carram Board?

400

This is what GMA stand for.

What is the Global Minds Alliance?

400

This is a beloved Indian dessert consisting of fried balls of a dough made from milk solids and semolina, soaked with an aromatic syrup spiced with green cardamom, rose water, saffron, and more.

What are gulab jamun?

400

This is a day for people in the US to give thanks for what they have. Families and friends get together for a meal, which traditionally includes a roast turkey, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce, gravy, and pumpkin pie.

What is Thanksgiving?

400

This is the number you should dial to reach the University Police Department when you're on campus. 

What is 631-632-3333?

400

This is a two-player game in the mancala family that is played in Central Asia.

What is Toguz korgool or togyzkumalak?

500

The LGBTQ+ Center, Veterans Center, and Unity Cultural Center are the three locations for this resource.

What is Let's Talk?

500

This is always local — made from what is fresh and locally available from season to season. Street food rules in Jamaica, and the magic often happens in the most casual settings where half a 55-gallon drum or a simple metal grate over coals serve as a grill. 

What is Jerk Chicken?

500

This is a festive day when Jews exercise their freedom from the regular labors of everyday life. This happens each week from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday

What is Shabbat?

500

This is the number should you dial if you require assistance or support with any of the technology services offered on campus.

What is DO-IT?

500

This is a cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India. It is described in the ancient text Mahabharata under the name of "Pasha". It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross.

What is Pachisi?