Around the World Quiz!

Holidays not only mean days free from work that one may spend at leisure but also are days to commemorate or celebrate a particular event. They also can be a religious feast day or a holy day. People all over the world celebrate holidays with similar and different customs and practices. Take the following quiz from World View to test your knowledge about major holidays around the world. Answers are provided on page 96 of this issue of Multilingual Living Magazine, where you will also find internet links to lesson plans and activities and resources to learn more about holidays and celebrations across the globe.

1. In which country are Christmas traditions celebrated regularly with bright tropical and island flowers, parades, and family dinners of chicken and pork tamales?
a) Australia
b) Russia
c) Costa Rica
d) Canada

2. Hanukkah (or Chanukah), the Jewish holiday for the Festival of Lights, lasts how many nights?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 19

3. Each fall, believers of which religion celebrate Diwali (or Deepavali or Deepawali), another Festival of Lights?
a) Hinduism
b) Christianity
c) Judaism
d) Muslim/Islam

4. This month-long Muslim/Islamic celebration, marked with prayer, charity, and fasting from dawn to sunset, celebrates the time when the Prophet Mohammed revealed the Qur’an to Allah is known as ______ ?
a) Christmas
b) Independence Day
c) Labor Day
d) Ramadan

5. While 2005 was the Year of the Rooster, on January 29, 2006 the Chinese New Year began with the Year of the _____ ?
a) Rabbit
b) Dog
c) Dragon
d) Monkey

6. In which country does a three-day water festival, called Songkran Festival, mark the Buddhists’ celebration of the New Year?
a) Ecuador
b) Peru
c) United States
d) Thailand

7. In which city is the International Mother’s Day Shrine?
a) Mumbai, India
b) Grafton, West Virginia, USA
c) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
d) Warsaw, Poland

8. A common practice for celebrating Christmas in New Zealand is______ ?
a) Taking the family camping or to the beach and feasting on a barbeque
b) Building a snowman
c) Celebrating Christmas twice a year (one in December, one in July)
d) a and c above

9. What is the name of the Turkish holiday celebrated each year on April 23 that illustrates that children are the future of the nation and represents the day in which Turkey became an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire?
a) Çocuk Bayrami
b) Victory Day
c) Ataturk Commemoration
d) Republic Day

10. The tradition of filling an Easter basket with eggs and sweets was started in the 18th Century by settlers from this country:
a) Switzerland
b) France
c) Germany
d) Netherlands

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