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Lunar New Year and Ramadan are both based on this natural object.
What is the moon?
Families clean their homes before Lunar New Year to remove this.
What is bad luck?
Children often receive these filled with money during Lunar New Year.
What are Hóngbāo or red envelopes?
Red envelopes symbolize this idea during Lunar New Year.
What is good luck?
This is the animal sign for the Lunar New Year in 2026.
What is the horse?
Lunar New Year typically falls between these two months on the Gregorian calendar.
What are January and February?
During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn until this time of day.
What is sunset?
This festival marks the end of Ramadan, celebrated with feasting, charity, and visiting family.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
The required charity given at the end of Ramadan.
What is Zakat al-Fitr?
This food is traditionally used to break the fast at sunset during Ramadan.
What are dates?
Ramadan is the ___ month of the Islamic lunar calendar.
What is the ninth month?
This meal is eaten before dawn to prepare for a day of fasting.
What is Suhoor or Sehri?
The Lunar New Year celebration that takes place on the 15th day of the holiday.
What is the Lantern Festival?
This behavior is discouraged during Ramadan while fasting.
What is arguing or being angry?
This animal is known for being clever and is the first in the zodiac cycle.
What is the rat?
Because the lunar year is shorter than the solar year, Ramadan shifts earlier by about this many days each year.
What is 11 days?
This traditional Lunar New Year dance is believed to bring good fortune.
What is the Lion Dance?
You’d hear this festive greeting on the morning of Eid as families celebrate the end of a month of fasting.
What is Eid Mubarak?
People who are sick or elderly may give this instead of fasting.
What is Fidya?
These round, meat-filled foods are eaten during Lunar New Year because they look like ancient Chinese money.
What are dumplings?
This phase of the moon traditionally signals the beginning of Ramadan and helps determine the start of Lunar New Year celebrations.
What is a new moon?
These special nightly prayers are performed during Ramadan.
What are Taraweeh or Qiyam?
This U.S. city is known for one of the largest Lunar New Year parades outside Asia.
What is San Francisco?
The Islamic term for an exemption from fasting.
What is Rukhsa?
This mythological beast was said to terrorize villages until it was scared away by loud noises and the color red, inspiring many New Year customs.
Who is Nian?