North America
This capital city of Mexico is where the 1968 Summer Olympics were held
What is Mexico City?
The annual Brazilian festival of Carnival takes place before Lent in this city
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This country has a history of powerful women, including Nefertiti and Cleopatra
What is Egypt?
What is South Korea?
Some famous marriages in this city include the ones between William and Kate, Meghan and Harry, and Charles and Diana
What is London?
Established by early Chinese immigrants to the United States, the first Chinatown was located in this US state
What is California?
This country's most recognizable symbols include coffee, classic cars, and, of course, big fat cigars
What is Cuba?
One of the many African syncretistic faiths include this one, famous for its namesake "dolls"
What is Vudun/Voodoo?
This country is home to the largest population of Muslims within national borders
What is Indonesia?
In Italy, it's not called ice cream, but this, meaning frozen in Italian
What is gelato?
Hey Mosaïque, Canada's two official languages are English and this one
What is French?
This genre of music was popularized by Puerto Rican artists, notably Daddy Yankee
What is reggaeton?
2010 World Cup, Xhosa, Afrikaans, the Zulu Empire, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Desmond Tutu...need I say more?
What is South Africa?
300 points for whoever can name two styles of Indian dance
This country can stake their claim on pierogies, kielbasa, and Pope John Paul II
What is Poland?
Don't eat the banana leaves covering this traditional Mexican dish
What is a tamale?
Pre-Columbian Amerindian empires include the Aztec, the Mayan, and this one based in Peru, who built the Machu Picchu
What is the Incan Empire?
This West African doughy food has a rhyming name, and is made with either cassava, maize flour, mashed plantains, or anything else really
What is fufu?
This is the name of the Middle Eastern sandwich packed with thinly sliced meat, tahini, and pickles
What is shawarma?
LEGOs and Ikea are some of this country's more known inventions, representative of their "do-it-yourself" culture
What is Sweden?
According to Anishinaabe oral tradition, the Ojibwe warrior Hiawatha and the Dakota woman Minnehaha fell in love in this US state
What is Michigan?
Rioplatense is known as this country's Spanish
What is Argentina?
This country was home to Muhammad Ahmad, or the Mahdi, who led a successful war against Egypt and the UK in the 1880s and 90s
What is Sudan?
500 points for whoever can name 4 of the 6 "-stan" countries
What are Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan?
This island in the Mediterranean Sea is inhabited by Greeks in the west and Turks in the east
What is Cyprus?