Puns and idioms
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Hold your horses
(meaning +50)
What's the only thing you can put in a bucket and make it lighter?
A hole
Buenos días. Quería tres boletos de avión, por favor.
Good morning. I would like three plane tickets, please.
What do the Japanese do when they want to greet somebody?
Bow
After English, which is the second most spoken language in the world?
Mandarin
Somebody stole all my lamps. How am I feeling?
De-lighted
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Fireworks
Snědl jsem kedlubnu, kapustu a dvě housky.
I ate a kohlrabi, kale and two buns.
In South Korea, pointing with a finger is rude. What can you do instead?
Point with the whole hand (open palm)
... is a constructed international language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. It was designed to be relatively easy to learn and to facilitate communication between people from different countries.
Esperanto
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Have a bun in the oven
(meaning +100)
Sukkerspinn
(It's a Norwegian word - and yes, sukker is sugar and spinn is spin)
cotton candy
Das kommt nicht in Frage.
That's out of the question.
Which European country has the opposite gestures for "yes" and "no"?
Bulgaria
Wifi is not working and you can't use AI or online dictionaries to translate what you need.
-300 points
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Have a bee in your bonnet
(meaning +150)
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blind spot
Dzisiaj w szkole mamy cztery lekcje, a dwie z nich to angielski.
Today at school, we have four lessons and two of them are English.
In which European country people consider waving offensive?
Greece
I bet some people from your group are using Duolingo. Who has the highest streak and how many days?
Highest streak in class +400 points
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idea
I'm odd. But take away one letter and I become even. What am I?
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Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix; nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.
We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from every danger, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
In Russia, you can't shake hands with somebody across a threshold. Why?
It is believed to be unlucky.
Write the word ice cream in as many languages as possible. Each language (except English and Slovak) is for 50 pts.
Czech: zmrzlina
German: eiscreme
French: glace
Spanish: helado
Portugese: gelado
Italian: gelato
Polish: lody
Chinese: 冰淇淋 (bīngqílín)
Greek: παγωτό (pagotó)
Japanese: アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu)
Russian: мороженое (maroženoje)
Ukrainian: морозиво (morozyvo)