Foreign Words in English
The Japanese word for singing to recorded music
Karaoke
Which 3 leaders met in Yalta to discuss the plans for Europe post-WWII?
FDR, Truman, Churchill
What is the name of the deepest part of the ocean?
Mariana Trench
Which singer, had she gone to Rehab despite her resistance described in a hit song, may not have died at the age of 27?
What does the letter ‘A’ stand for in Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter?”
Adultery or Adulteress
The Greek word for something/someone without a name
Anonymous
In 1911, Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach what location?
South Pole
Which of these is the southernmost capital:
Cape Town, Canberra, Wellington, Montevideo
Wellington
Which two smells are described in “Don’t Stop Believing?”
Wine and cheap perfume
What is the name of the lawyer who defends Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird?”
Atticus Finch
The French word for gender or type, which is used mainly for classification of the arts
Genre
1989
How many time zones are in the US?
Which composer wrote music for Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker?
Tchaikovsky
What is the nickname the characters use for the totalitarian state under which they live under constant surveillance in 1984?
The Dutch word meaning “master” refers to the person everyone at work loves to hate
Boss
What is the world’s oldest recorded Civilization?
Mesopotamia
Which river separates the Hungarian cities of Buda and Pest?
Danube
Name any of the 3 singers whose death is referenced by the phrase, “the day the music died.”
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper
Name as many of the 4 sisters in Little Women as you can.
The Sanskrit word meaning “descent” signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity
Which family dynasty was the most recent to rule China?
Qing
Which country is home to the most volcanoes?
Indonesia
Which singer has had a Billboard #1 hit during each of the last 4 decades?
Which novel, about a shipwrecked traveler, is the first fiction novel to be published in English? (1719)
Robinson Crusoe