Peter Sagal
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Hannah Taylor of Savannah, Georgia.
Are we ready to do this?
I'm ready.
Here you go.
First question.
At the annual Kerkpenar Festival in western Turkey, fighters come from all over that country to compete in a form of wrestling that has a particular twist.
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.