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Harvest Celebrations Worldwide — Daily trivia Friday, March 6, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Which Hindu festival after the autumn harvest involves lighting clay lamps called diyas?
- AHoli
- BDiwali
- CPongal
- DNavratri
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Diwali
Diwali, the Festival of Lights, coincides with the harvest season in India and symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness. Families light diyas (oil lamps) and celebrate the abundance of the harvest.
Q 02In which country is Chuseok, a harvest festival where families share songpyeon rice cakes, celebrated?
- ASouth Korea
- BThailand
- CVietnam
- DJapan
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South Korea
Chuseok is one of South Korea's most important holidays, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Families reunite to give thanks for the harvest and share songpyeon, crescent-shaped rice cakes filled with sesame or chestnut.
Q 03Which staple grain did the Wampanoag likely share with the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving harvest feast?
- AMaize (corn)
- BRice
- CBarley
- DWheat
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Maize (corn)
Maize, or corn, was the staple crop cultivated by the Wampanoag and other Indigenous peoples. It was central to the 1621 harvest celebration in Plymouth and became a symbol of the American Thanksgiving tradition.
Q 04Munich's Oktoberfest was first held to celebrate which event?
- AA record grain harvest in Bavaria
- BThe founding of a new brewing guild
- CThe end of the Napoleonic Wars
- DThe wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig
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The wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig
Oktoberfest grew from the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese on 12 October 1810; its horse races drew such crowds that the city made the festival annual.
Q 05Which November Shinto harvest festival has the Emperor perform sacred rituals in thanks for the rice crop?
- ANiinamesai
- BTanabata
- CObon
- DSetsubun
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Niinamesai
Niinamesai is the rite in which the Emperor offers the season's new rice to the gods; its date, 23 November, is also Labour Thanksgiving Day, a holiday since 1948.
Q 06Which Igbo celebration marks the harvest of the community's most important staple crop?
- AHomowo
- BNew Yam Festival (Iri Ji)
- COdwira
- DDurbar
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New Yam Festival (Iri Ji)
The New Yam Festival, known as Iri Ji or Iwa Ji, is celebrated by the Igbo people to mark the end of the farming season and the harvesting of yams. It involves prayers, feasting, and the ritual eating of the first yam of the season.
Q 07During which Jewish harvest festival do families eat, and often sleep, in huts roofed with branches?
- APassover
- BShavuot
- CSukkot
- DHanukkah
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Sukkot
Sukkot lasts seven days in Israel, and its huts recall both farmers' harvest shelters and the fragile dwellings of the Israelites' 40 years in the desert.
Q 08Which ancient Celtic festival marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter?
- ABeltane
- BImbolc
- CSamhain
- DLughnasadh
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Samhain
Samhain, from the evening of 31 October, opened the darker half of the year, when the boundary with the Otherworld was thought to thin; it helped shape modern Halloween.
Q 09What offering is commonly buried during Andean harvest celebrations to thank Pachamama?
- AGold dust and feathers
- BWoven textiles dyed with berries
- CA despacho bundle with coca leaves
- DCeramic figurines of animals
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A despacho bundle with coca leaves
A despacho is a ceremonial bundle of coca leaves, seeds, sweets and other symbolic items, prepared with prayers and then buried or burned as a gift to Pachamama (Mother Earth) during harvest celebrations across Peru and Bolivia.
Q 10Mendoza's grape-harvest festival, the Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia, crowns a national queen each March in which country?
- AChile
- BSpain
- CArgentina
- DMexico
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Argentina
Argentina: Mendoza has held the Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia since 1936, celebrating the grape harvest and electing a national queen in early March.
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