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100
This religion is practiced mainly by Slavic people in Eastern Europe.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
100
Most important element of the French diet?
What is bread?
100
This mountain range dominates Southern Germany, SE France, Switzerland and Austria.
What is the Alps?
100
Which of these share a common religion: France Spain Greece Serbia
What is France and Spain?
100
Nation with the shortest work week and the longest vacations.
What is France?
200
After WWII, this German capital was divided between the Soviet Union, UK, France and USA.
What is Berlin?
200
When entering a business in France it is important to do what?
What is "speak?"
200
Identify four of the five Scandinavian nations.
What is 1. Norway, 2. Sweden, 3. Finland, 4. Denmark, 5. Iceland?
200
Which of these share a common currency: Norway Germany UK Czech Republic
What is Germany and Czech Republic?
200
Two nations formed from Hitler's Third Reich after 1945.
What is West and East Germany?
300
Form of government imposed in Eastern Europe after World War II.
What is Communism?
300
This is the dominate ethnicity in Switzerland, Austria and Liectenstein.
What is German?
300
Wallonia and Flanders are two regions in this nation. One speaks French the other speaks Flemish.
What is Belgium?
300
Not a former Soviet satellite nation: East Germany Poland Yugoslavia Austria
What is Austria?
300
Mountain range that separates France and Spain.
What is Pyrenees?
400
Today 27 nations belong to the European Union. Most of the newest members are from the East. Name the common currency used by most European nations.
What is the euro?
400
Identify three of peoples that lived in the former Yugoslavia.
Who are the Montenegrins, Kosovars, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, and Macedonians?
400
Reason why the Spanish take a siesta?
What is HEAT?
400
Government imposed in both West Germany and West Berlin after WWII.
What is democracy?
400
Which nation of the British Isles has been the leading industrial nation and which has remained primarily agricultural?
What is UK; Ireland?
500
2 of the facotors that triggered ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia.
What is 1) Independence of Slovenia, Croatia, and/or Bosnia; 2) Ethnic and religious diversity; 3)Unwillingness of Serbs to live as minorities in the new countries.
500
The French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italians all speak these types of languages.
What are Romance Languages?
500
Vatican City is located inside this city.
What is Rome?
500
Form of government shared by both the UK and Spain.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
500
One purpose of the Academie francaise.
What is 1. preserve the French language; 2. keep foreign words out of the French language; 3. create new words to replace foreign words.
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