World Questions

Guess: which community sets Teachers' Day on Confucius's birthday?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

On Teachers' Day, what do students usually do?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

Does anyone in your family still farm or grow food?

Guess: in which community is Thanksgiving a nationally recognised day fixed by law — yet an ordinary working day?

Guess: in which community do companies routinely hand out mooncakes or gift boxes to staff around Mid-Autumn, almost as a matter of course?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

Is today (Mid-Autumn) a day off for you?

Guess: which community has a national public holiday for respecting the aged, one day a year?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

When parents get old, who in your family is most likely to be caring for them?

Asked by the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

For the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

Honestly — how many mooncakes do you eat?

Guess: whose famous moon-viewing night is not guaranteed to have a full moon — and they know it?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

When you remember someone who has died, what does your family do?

Guess: which community has a stretch of sixteen consecutive days set aside for the ancestors?

Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For the 🇧🇷 Português community

On moving day, what goes into the new home first?

Guess: which community picks a specific day off the calendar because it is an auspicious day to move?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

Where are you most likely to be on the Mid-Autumn night?

Guess: for which community is the most common Mid-Autumn activity not moon-gazing but barbecue?

Guess: whose Thanksgiving falls in October, not November?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

Which meal of the year tastes most like harvest to you?

Guess: which community gives sixty, seventy and seventy-seven each its own name, and each its own colour?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

On your birthday, what comes first?

Guess: in which community is the year's most visible nationwide pause not actually a statutory holiday at all?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

To get home for the big holiday, what do you usually travel by?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

How many days does Diwali last for you?

Guess: which community also made the first of Diwali's five days a national day of medicine?

Guess: whose holiday statute enumerates a Daoist day and the Buddha's birthday one by one, yet contains not a single Islamic festival?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

On a religious festival, do you have to take leave in order to attend the service?

Guess: which community treats the fifteenth night after Lunar New Year as the line where the year is properly over, with work and school resuming only after it?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

At New Year, what is the one thing you always eat?

Guess: whose coming-of-age rite is held on the day of the lovers' festival, and involves passing beneath a paper pavilion on the offering table?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

Is there a rite where you live that says someone has grown up? At what age?

Guess: whose school year straddles two calendar years — opening in February, closing in December, with a mid-year break cutting it in half?

Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

At your graduation, what is the one thing everyone has to do?

Guess: which community turns a greased pole into a contest on independence day, climbing it for the prizes hung at the top?

Asked by the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

For the 🇧🇷 Português community

On your national day, do you go and watch the ceremony or parade?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

For the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

On Teachers' Day, do students take the classes or swap roles at school?

Guess: whose Teachers' Day exists because a professor of philosophy turned down a celebration of his own birthday?

Guess: whose harvest rite runs seven days straight — carrying the rice, a thousand lamps, the whole village pounding grain together, and closing with residents of different faiths praying side by side?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

In which season does your harvest celebration fall?

Guess: which community moved its day of remembrance to a Monday to make a three-day weekend, and then legislated a nationwide minute of silence at three in the afternoon?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

On your day of remembrance, is there a moment when the whole country falls silent together?

Guess: which community's boat race uses snake boats over a hundred feet long pulled by more than a hundred oarsmen, fixed on the second Saturday of August?

Asked by the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

Is there a boat race where you live? When is it held?

Guess: in which community do the rules give women half a day off, while mothers get no day at all?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

How many days did the last wedding you attended last?

Guess: in which community is the date of Father's Day decided by a pun?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

When is Father's Day where you are?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

At your school or workplace, is Valentine's Day encouraged, ignored, or discouraged?

Guess: in which community does the official paperwork mention Valentine's Day in order to tell students not to mark it?

Guess: in which community is the star of the fifteenth night not the lantern but people held to be possessed by ancestral spirits, carried through the streets and pierced with blades without bleeding?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

On the fifteenth night after Lunar New Year, is there a lantern event where you are?

Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For the 🇧🇷 Português community

Do you have a day for giving thanks for the harvest? In which season?

Guess: in which community does Farmers' Day fall not after the harvest but on the first day of spring — that is, before the work has even begun?

Guess: in which community does Children's Day not even have a fixed date — re-proclaimed each year by the head of state, and moved at least four times in forty years?

Guess: after a 2024 amendment, which place writes 1 and 2 May into its statutory Labour Day break?

Where you live, what does Labour Day feel like in practice?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

On Children's Day, do your children get the day off?

Guess: in which community can Labour Day mean that one person in a household is off while another goes to work as usual?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

On 1 May, does your workplace give you the day off?

Guess: which community tends the ancestral graves just before Ramadan begins — cleaning them, praying together, and closing with the whole village sitting down to one shared meal?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

How many times a year do you visit the family graves?

Guess: in which community is the first day of Ramadan announced only after the government meets the evening before, weighing crescent sightings against the calculation?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

How do you find out the date Ramadan starts?

Guess: which community stays awake all night under that same full moon, leaving rice pudding out in the moonlight to share the next day?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

For the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

At Mid-Autumn, do you give mooncakes? And to whom?

Asked by the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

For the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

On Teachers' Day, do you give the teacher a gift?

Guess: which community has no Teachers' Day at all, and what the state marks is education rather than teachers?

Guess: which community has a whole day when an entire island goes quiet — no lights, no going out, the airport closed?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇧🇷 Português community

Do you take your shoes off when you come into the house?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇺🇸 English community

In the United States, do children bring a packed lunch or eat what the school serves?

Guess: which community stands an egg on its end at noon on the fifth of the fifth month, saying it brings luck?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

At your graduations, do people throw their caps into the air?

Guess: in which community does the groom arrive on a white horse with a marching band?

Guess: which community sees tens of millions travel home at once in the yearly “mudik” exodus?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

Where you live, how long do adult children usually live with their parents?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

Do you celebrate the harvest moon? How do you usually spend it?

Guess: which community turned the Mid-Autumn Festival into a nationwide barbecue night?

Guess: throwing a huge “Sweet Sixteen” party for a 16th birthday is whose tradition?

Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For an elder's birthday, do you give money (like a red envelope) as a gift?

Guess: in which community do weddings routinely run three days or more, ceremony after ceremony?

Asked by the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

Where you live, do people hold a housewarming ritual or party when moving in?

Guess: in which community is fried chicken THE Christmas meal, often pre-ordered weeks ahead?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

Do people in Japan really take a bath every night?

Guess: which community celebrates independence day by climbing greased palm trunks for prizes?

Asked by the 🇧🇷 Português community

Where you live, is a birthday always celebrated with cake?

Asked by the 🇮🇳 हिन्दी community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

At what age do kids in Taiwan start going to school on their own?

Guess: which community dances the “Bon Odori” for ancestors every August?

Asked by the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

Do people in Japan really go to izakaya often after work?

Guess: in which community do people eat “longevity noodles” on their birthday?

Guess: which community eats dinner the latest?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

Do people in Taiwan really drink bubble tea every day?