It is a mixture of emotions, stress, and anxiety when coming to a new country.
What is culture shock?
100
On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top, middle, or bottom?
What is the bottom?
100
The day, month, and year of the terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Centers.
What is September 11, 2001?
100
Chick flick
What is a film with characterization and storylines that appeal especially to women.
100
Term used when you take a picture of yourself.
What is a "selfie."
200
Two symptoms a person might experience in his/her first month in a new country.
What are sleeping, frustration, lack of appetite, and loneliness?
200
The largest state in the USA (geographically).
What is Alaska?
200
The term used to describe when someone illegally crosses the street.
What is Jaywalking?
200
Barking up the wrong tree
What is making a mistake or a false assumption in something you are trying to achieve.
200
The meaning of the phrasal verb "hit on."
What is to be flirtatious?
300
Name two uniquely/stereotypical American cultural norms.
What are impatient, direct, vulgar, loud, casual shoes/sneakers, welcoming, and outgoing?
300
The city which houses the UN Headquarters.
What is New York City?
300
The name of the famous theater in Manhattan, NYC (hint, known for its musicals).
What is Broadway Theater?
300
Cold turkey
What is the sudden and complete withdrawal from an addictive substance and/or the physiological effects of such a withdrawal.
300
The meaning of the phrase "to be hung up on" someone.
What is, when all you think about is one person, and you can't stop thinking about them, or to be romantically stuck on someone?
400
Name two ways to acclimate to a new culture.
What is try new things, keep a journal (you will be surprised how much you grow/learn), exercise, join a club, make your room a sanctuary...?
400
The meaning of these fast food chain letters KFC.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)?
400
Some governments have introduced high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in which only vehicles with two or more passengers are allowed to drive. Name this lane.
What is the Carpool Lane?
400
Catch 22
What is a paradox in which a requirement that cannot be met until a prerequisite requirement is met, however, the prerequisite cannot be obtained until the original requirement is met. This expression comes from Joseph Heller's novel, Catch 22.
400
The five letter word for when someone has a strong romantic feeling or infatuation for someone.
What is a crush?
500
The experience felt after returning to your home country after having been immersed in a foreign culture and/or country.
What is reverse culture shock?
500
The name of the American actress who played Dorothy in the 1939 The Wizard of Oz.
What is Judy Garland?
500
Name the four presidents whose faces are on Mount Rushmore.
What is Sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
500
On cloud nine
What is in a state of blissful happiness
500
The meaning of the phrase "would you like to open a tab."
What is to leave a credit card at the bar so you don't have to pay each time you order a drink (essentially making one bill for all the drinks you order at a bar)? Don't forget to "close your tab" at the end of the night ;)