Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
All 10 questions with answers and explanations. Play this daily
Q 01Which fruit does Traverse City, Michigan, celebrate with a festival every July?
Cherry
Traverse City's National Cherry Festival baked a 17-foot-wide, 28,350-pound cherry pie in 1987 that entered the Guinness Book of World Records. The event began in May 1925 as the 'Blessing of the Blossoms'.
Q 02Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, calls itself the world capital of which crop?
Mushroom
Mushroom farms around Kennett Square grow about half of the entire US crop, more than a million pounds a day.
Q 03Gilroy, California, calls itself the world capital of which pungent bulb?
Garlic
Garlic: Gilroy launched its Garlic Festival in 1979, and after a 2021 drive-through edition it went unheld for three years before a small return in 2025.
Q 04Which sweet treat is celebrated at a huge annual festival in Perugia, Italy?
Chocolate
Chocolate: Eurochocolate fills Perugia, hometown of Perugina, the chocolate company behind Baci.
Q 05Which vegetable's California growers crowned a young Marilyn Monroe as their first honorary queen?
Artichoke
Artichoke: the California Artichoke Association gave Monroe her sash in 1948, eleven years before Castroville formed the board behind its Artichoke Festival.
Q 06Which food is traditionally eaten at China's Dragon Boat Festival?
Zongzi
Zongzi, wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, recall the legend of villagers dropping food into the river so fish would spare the drowned poet Qu Yuan's body.
Q 07Which crustacean does Breaux Bridge celebrate with a festival every year?
Crawfish
Crawfish: Louisiana officially named Breaux Bridge the 'Crawfish Capital of the World', and the city throws a Crawfish Festival every year.
Q 08Which shellfish is the centrepiece of a Galway festival with a 'World Opening Championship'?
Oyster
The Galway International Oyster Festival was dreamed up by a hotel manager in 1954 and now marks the start of the season on the last weekend of September, complete with the World Oyster Opening Championship.
Q 09Which strong-smelling tropical fruit is the subject of festivals in Southeast Asia despite its polarizing aroma?
Durian
Its smell gets durian banned from hotels and public transport in Singapore and Bangkok, yet Chanthaburi province in Thailand, which grows about half the country's crop, throws a World Durian Festival every May.
Q 10The Tamil festival Pongal is named for a dish of which grain boiled in milk until it overflows?
Rice
When the pot boils over, families shout 'Pongalo Pongal' — 'may this rice boil over' — because the overflow is read as a sign of the abundance to come.