Around the World at Home! Quick Challenge #3

Pit your wits against your family members!  Get into teams and race to answer the following questions – one team using Google and the other using the digital library database Culturegrams. Remember to think about your keywords you use.

If you only have one computer, do your challenge separately but time how long it takes you.  Post up the winning times on the blog comment section or your library's Facebook post  (Botany  Highland Park  Pakuranga  Howick) for this challenge On your marks, get ready, go!

1. Cleveland, Ohio has the world’s largest   _ _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ _   that is over 9m tall and 15m long.

2. What land mammals live in Antarctica?

3. The blue chakra in the middle of the Indian flag symbolises what? 

_ _ _ _ _   _ _  law or life

4. What is the name of a Jump Rope game played in Montenegro?

5. What is the name of the holiday that celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Burkina Faso?

6. What does the word ‘Tatau’ mean in Samoa?  _ _ _’_   _ _ _ _ _ _

7. What is the word for ‘market day’ in Guatemala?  _ _ _ _ _ _ _

8. New Year’s Eve is called  _ _ _   _ _ _ _’_   _ _ _ _ _  in Guyana?

9. Where in New Zealand do you see the first sunrise of a new day? Hint this is not on one of the main islands!  

10. In Burundi, how long do the parents wait before naming their new born child?