❓ Vietnamese Countryside — Guess Who?

Rice straw left after the harvest is often dried and used to feed the buffalo or to...?

• 🔥Make fires / mushrooms
• ✈️Build airplanes
• 📱Make phones

Why do many Vietnamese people feel love for the countryside even after moving to the city?

• ❤️It is where their roots and family are
• 🚗Because it has more traffic
• ❄️Because it is snowy

A round bamboo-and-tar basket boat used by fishers along the central coast is a thuyền...?

• 🛶Thúng (basket boat)
• ⛵Buồm lớn (big sail ship)
• 🚢Ngầm (submarine)

Country children often help their family by feeding the ducks and looking after the...?

• 🐃Buffalo
• 🤖A robot
• 🚀A rocket

Which scene best describes the Vietnamese countryside?

• 🌾Green rice fields and a buffalo
• 🎿Snowy ski mountains
• ✈️A busy airport

Because rice is grown everywhere, Vietnam is one of the world's biggest exporters of...?

• 🌾Rice
• ❄️Snow
• 🚀Spaceships

In the Mekong Delta countryside, many houses sit right beside a river or a...?

• 🏞️Canal (kênh rạch)
• 🎿A ski slope
• 🚇A subway

At night in the countryside, little flying insects that glow are called...?

• ✨Fireflies (đom đóm)
• 🐟Fish
• 🦇Bats

The stork (con cò) that appears in many Vietnamese lullabies is a symbol of the hard-working...?

• 🐦Mother/farmer
• 👑King
• 🤖Robot

Bamboo (tre) is very useful in the countryside — it can be made into baskets, mats and even...?

• 🎋Houses and bridges
• 📱Mobile phones
• 🚗Cars

The communal house at the centre of a traditional village, used for meetings and festivals, is called the...?

• 🏯Đình (communal house)
• 🎬Cinema
• 🏬Shopping mall

The old banyan tree, the water well and the communal yard are classic sights at the heart of a Vietnamese...?

• 🌳Village (làng)
• ✈️Airport
• 🛰️Space station

When the rice turns golden, farmers cut it down in a job called the...?

• 🌾Harvest (mùa gặt)
• 😴Winter nap
• 🪁Kite flying

Rice grows in flooded fields; the young green plants are moved by hand in a job called...?

• 🌾Transplanting rice (cấy lúa)
• 🍞Baking bread
• 🎣Fishing

There is a Vietnamese saying, 'Con trâu is the head of the family's...' — meaning it was a farmer's most valuable...?

• 🐃Property/asset
• 🧸Toy
• 🍪Snack

For hundreds of years, the water buffalo has helped Vietnamese farmers to plow the...?

• 🐃Rice fields
• 🌊Ocean floor
• ☁️The sky

Grandparents in the village often grow vegetables in a small home...?

• 🌱Garden (vườn)
• ✈️Airport
• 🎬Cinema

In the countryside, a boy riding on a buffalo's back might play a bamboo...?

• 🎶Flute (sáo)
• 🥁Drum kit
• 🎹Piano

🐃 A young water buffalo, the baby of con trâu, is called a...?

• 🐃Nghé (calf)
• 🐶Puppy
• 🐱Kitten

Is the air in the countryside usually fresh and quiet, or full of tall buildings?

• 🌾Fresh and quiet
• 🏙️Full of skyscrapers
• ❄️Full of snow

Rice from the fields is cooked to make the white...?

• 🍚Rice (cơm)
• 🍦Ice cream
• 🍬Candy

In old villages, people get water from a round stone...?

• ⛲Well (giếng nước)
• 📺Television
• 🧊Fridge

Which one would you see in a Vietnamese village?

• 🐃A water buffalo
• 🐻‍❄️A polar bear
• 🐧A penguin

In the village, farmers wear a nón lá on their head to block the...?

• ☀️Sun
• 🎵Music
• ❄️Snow

🐸 What green animal hops and says 'ộp ộp' near the rice fields?

• 🐸Frog (con ếch)
• 🐘Elephant
• 🐯Tiger

In the countryside, farmers grow rice in big wet fields called...?

• 🌾Rice paddies (ruộng)
• 🏊Swimming pools
• 🏜️Deserts

🐓 What bird wakes up the village in the morning with 'cock-a-doodle-doo'?

• 🐓Rooster (con gà trống)
• 🐟Fish
• 🐸Frog

🦆 What farm bird says 'quack quack' and swims in the pond?

• 🦆Duck (con vịt)
• 🐱Cat
• 🐝Bee

🎋 What tall, thin, green plant grows in clumps and bends in the wind in the village?

• 🎋Bamboo (cây tre)
• 🍎Apple tree
• 🌴Palm on beach

🌾 What green plant grows in flooded fields and gives us rice?

• 🌾Rice plant (cây lúa)
• 🌵Cactus
• 🌹Rose

🐦 What tall white bird stands in the rice fields on thin legs?

• 🐦Stork (con cò)
• 🦜Parrot
• 🦉Owl

🐃 What big grey animal pulls the plow in the rice fields?

• 🐃Water buffalo (con trâu)
• 🦁Lion
• 🐧Penguin