Central America
Penn
Riddles
Songs
1

Name one of the Central American countries that uses the United States dollar as their form of currency

El Salvador or Panamá

1

Year Penn was founded

1740

1

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

None, it’s a one-story house

1

Viral TikTok song written by Virginia native who was born to Colombian parents

Telepatía by Kali Uchis

2

The site of the _____ civilization in Honduras is called the Copán Ruinas

Maya

2

Undergrad enrollment to closest ten thousand

11k

2

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Footsteps

2

Song that created much controversy and is about a coming of age activity (also went viral on TikTok)

Driver's License by Olivia Rodrigo

3

The 7 Central American countries

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá

3

The meaning of the motto on Penn’s crest, which is written in Latin

Leges sines moribus vanus = Laws without morals are in vain

3

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

The letter ‘r’

3

This song was performed at the 2021 Grammy’s by an individual who was criticized for her stage presence and hip movement

Levitating by Dula Peep ft. DaBaby

4

Central American country that gained its independence last

Belize

4

This statue depicts a Black woman’s head atop a form that suggests a skirt or perhaps a building at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets

"Brick House"
4

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

“Queue”

4

Viral song on TikTok used as a background sound for individuals giving relationship and love advice or food for thought

Good Days by SZA

5

Central American country did not have named streets or numbered houses (and only recently has their government has begun to assign building and house numbers, street names and ZIP codes throughout the country)

Costa Rica

5

Name of the first general-purpose computer, which was born at the UPenn Moore School of Electrical Energy

ENIAC

5

I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

Isle

5

Currently in the Billboard Hot 100, this artist’s song talks about success as a singer with a previous hit considered to have had raunchy song lyrics

Up by Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, or Cardi B

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