Peter Sagal
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What is it?
A. Wrestlers' arms are tied behind their back and their legs are tied together.
B. Not only is poking in the eye allowed, it's the only thing allowed.
Or C. All the wrestlers are covered in olive oil to make them more slippery.
The audience of people are shouting C, olive oil, with a little too much enthusiasm.
It is olive oil, in fact.
Olive oil wrestling in Turkey goes back more than 600 years.
It's a hallowed tradition.
There you are.
All right, here's your next question.
You did that well.
In the village high in the mountains of Peru, the people there celebrate an event called the Tecanaqui every Christmas day.
What happens at the Tecanaqui?
A, everybody tries to beat up everybody else to get them back for slights that happened during the preceding year.
B, people attempt to beat a llama in a spitting fight, or C, it's a giant Christmas-themed martial arts match called Gold, Frankincense, and Murder.
I'm going to go with B. You're going to go with B, people attempt to beat a llama.
No, it was actually the first one, as the narrator of a documentary about it says, it's like Yom Kippur, but with punching.
All right, this is fine.
If you get this last one right, you win.
In Florence, Italy, they still play this ancient ball game called calcio storico, where players can do anything they like to the opposing player, resulting in all kinds of injuries.