Western Europe
: This Italian city is known for its canals instead of streets and was once the center of a powerful maritime republic.
What is Venice?
This Chinese martial art emphasizes slow, flowing movements and is practiced for defense training, health benefits, and meditation.
What is Tai Chi?
This dome-shaped bread from the Middle East is baked in a special tandoor oven and often served with hummus or used for sandwiches.
What is pita bread?
This Cuban dance music genre combines elements of European and African musical traditions and features the clave rhythm pattern.
What is salsa?
This colorful woven cloth from Ghana is made of silk and cotton strips with distinctive patterns and is often worn for ceremonial occasions.
What is kente cloth?
This Spanish festival in Buñol involves participants throwing tomatoes at each other in a massive food fight.
What is La Tomatina?
This colorful Japanese art form involves arranging flowers in a minimalist style that emphasizes form, line, and space.
What is ikebana?
This ancient Egyptian queen ruled alongside Pharaoh Akhenaten and is known for her distinctive bust discovered in 1912.
Who is Nefertiti?
These colorful wooden dolls from the Caribbean island of Jamaica feature exaggerated facial expressions and are considered good luck charms.
What are Jamaican Rag Dolls?
This South African choral singing style developed in the mines during the apartheid era and gained international fame through Paul Simon's "Graceland" album.
What is isicathamiya (or mbube)?
This traditional Scottish garment for men is a knee-length skirt-like piece of clothing with a tartan pattern.
What is a kilt?
This Korean side dish consists of fermented vegetables, typically napa cabbage and Korean radishes, seasoned with chili powder and other spices.
What is kimchi?
This traditional Middle Eastern dance form features hip movements and is commonly performed at celebrations and social gatherings.
What is belly dancing?
This ancient city in Peru sits high in the Andes mountains and was built by the Inca Empire in the 15th century.
What is Machu Picchu?
This West African storyteller serves as a historian, advisor, diplomat, and musician, preserving oral traditions through generations.
What is a griot?
This dessert from France consists of a caramelized sugar crust over a rich custard base and is traditionally served in a shallow ramekin.
What is crème brûlée?
This traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month features dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings.
What is the Dragon Boat Festival (or Duanwu Festival)?
This intricate art form from North Africa and the Middle East uses geometric patterns because of religious restrictions on depicting living beings.
What is Islamic geometric art (or arabesque)?
This Brazilian martial art disguised as a dance was developed by enslaved Africans and combines fighting moves with music and acrobatics.
What is capoeira?
This ancient trading city in Mali was a center of Islamic scholarship during the 14th-16th centuries and features distinctive mud-brick architecture.
What is Timbuktu?
This annual horse race in Siena, Italy takes place in the city's main square and features riders representing different city districts.
What is Palio di Siena?
This Japanese performance art combines drumming, physical movement, and vocals in an energetic ensemble display.
What is Taiko drumming?
This desert fortress in Israel built by King Herod became famous as the site of a mass suicide during the First Jewish-Roman War.
What is Masada?
This fusion dish is a Peruvian staple that mixes Chinese-Cantonese influences.
What is lomo saltado?
This empire in West Africa was known for its wealth in gold, and its ruler Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324-1325 distributed so much gold it caused inflation.
What is the Mali Empire?