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100
Name two European languages that are currently the official national languages somewhere in Africa.
What is English/French/Spanish/Portuguese ?
100
Name the main vegetable ingredient in moussaka.
What is eggplant ?
100
This is the country where Monet is from.
What is France ?
100
This was Dracula's nationality (according to current political geography).
What is Romanian ?
100
This is the name of the capital building in Russia.
What is the Kremlin ?
200
Name the language with the most native speakers currently.
What is Mandarin (Chinese) ?
200
This is where chocolate comes from.
What is South America / trees ?
200
This is the person who painted the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo ?
200
This is Pippi Longstocking's nationality.
What is Swedish ?
200
This famous Polish scientist discovered radium and polonium and won the Nobel Prize twice.
Who is Marie Curie ?
300
Name the language, originally invented by linguist Marc Okrand for Star Trek, that currently has its own language institute and quarterly scholarly journal.
What is Klingon ?
300
Name the person who introduced spaghetti to Italy.
Who is Marco Polo ?
300
Name the tallest building in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai ?
300
This culture originated the Nike swoosh.
What is the Greek culture ? (It represented the wing of the Greek goddess Nike - victory.)
300
Name four different religions in the world.
What is Christianity/Judaism/Hinduism/Buddhism/Islam... ?
400
Name the script that many Eastern European countries use as their alphabet.
What is Cyrillic ?
400
Name two main ingredients found in perogies.
What is potato / cabbage / cheese / dough ?
400
Name the symbolic shape that early cathedrals were built in.
What is the cross ?
400
This culture first domesticated goldfish.
What is the Japanese / Chinese culture ?
400
Name the article of clothing worn by some Muslim women.
What is a hijab ?
500
Name the official language of Brazil.
What is Portuguese ?
500
This food item is always on the table at every Ethiopian meal, because Ethiopians do not use utensils.
What is (injera) bread ?
500
This is the length of time it took to build the Taj Mahal.
What is 10 years ?
500
This culture invented fortune cookies.
What is American ?
500
Name 5 of the romance languages (languages that evolved from Latin).
What is French / Spanish / Romanian / Portuguese / Italian / Catalan / Provençal / Romansh ?
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