Q 01/05

Chapulines, a crunchy Oaxacan snack seasoned with garlic, lime and chili, are which toasted creatures?

A) Grasshoppers

B) Flying ants

C) Stink bugs

D) Freshwater shrimp

Answer · why

A) Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers get their Mexican name from the Nahuatl word chapolin, and early records of the Spanish conquest already mention people eating them.

Q 02/05

Which vegetable do Oaxaca City carvers turn into elaborate sculptures for a competition held every 23 December?

A) Pumpkins

B) Sweet potatoes

C) Radishes

D) Turnips

Answer · why

C) Radishes

Radishes grown oversized for the event are carved into whole scenes, a contest the city's mayor made official in 1897 to build on a Christmas market c...

Q 03/05

Which Jack Black comedy about a monastery cook turned masked wrestler was shot entirely in Oaxaca?

A) School of Rock

B) Nacho Libre

C) Be Kind Rewind

D) Shallow Hal

Answer · why

B) Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre is loosely based on Fray Tormenta, a real Mexican priest who wrestled in a mask for 23 years to support the orphanage he ran.

Q 04/05

Which Pixar film turned alebrijes, the fantastical painted creatures carved in Oaxaca, into glowing spirit guides?

A) Luca

B) Soul

C) Onward

D) Coco

Answer · why

D) Coco

Coco casts Pepita, a winged jaguar-like cat, and Dante, a hairless Xolo dog, in the role; Pixar's researchers stayed with families in Oaxaca while dev...

Q 05/05

Which Mexican painter adopted the Tehuana dress of southern Oaxaca as her signature look in self-portraits?

A) Remedios Varo

B) Leonora Carrington

C) Frida Kahlo

D) María Izquierdo

Answer · why

C) Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo favoured the dress of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, whose markets are famously run by women, as a statement of pride in indigenous Mexico.