History
The former name of Ethiopia, used up until 1974.
What is Abyssinia (or Habesh)?
The most well known novel in Ethiopia, published in 1968.
What is Fekir Eske Mekabir?
The name of a popular Ethiopian blend of spices made from chili peppers
What is Berbere (or Mitmita)?
The name of the coloured pattern on Habesha Libs
What is a Tilet (or Tibeb)?
The iconic church located in Gondar sculpted out of a single rock
What is Lalibela?
This river in Ethiopia is a biblical landmark, and springs from Lake Tana.
What is the Blue Nile?
The author of Fekir Eske Mekabir
The name of a bite of food fed to you by someone else
What is a Gursha?
A popular street in Addis Abeba to buy Habesha Libs
What is Shiro Meda?
The most commonly used colours in Ethiopian artwork
What are reds, yellows, and greens.
The bones of the first ever human Lucy were found in Ethiopia. What is Lucy's name in Amharic?
Who is Dinknesh?
A best selling book criticizing Ethiopian politics at the time, resulting in its being banned by the government.
What is Oromay?
The primary ingredient of shiro
What are chickpeas?
The amount of time it takes a designer to make an item of Habesha Libs
Up to a month
The most central theme in all Ethiopian art
What is Christianity?
This kingdom was the descending empire of Ethiopia and other East African countries (like Eritrea and Sudan).
What was the Kingdom of Aksum?
The regime criticized by the novel Oromay
The Derg Regime
The name for the holes found in injera
What are Ayne?
The name for a weaver in Amharic
What is a Shemane?
The father of contemporary Ethiopian art awarded the title of Maitre d'Art.
Who is Afework Tekle?
How much older the King James Bible is than the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
Over 800 years older.
The song written by Teddy Afro about the novel Fekir Eske Mekabir
What is Mar Eske Tuwaf?
What is the English word for Qerefa?
What is cinnamon?
Tattoos commonly seen on Ethiopian women that represent beauty and spiritual protection.
What is Niksat?
What do the large almond shaped eyes represent in Ethiopian artwork?
What is spiritual insight and wisdom?