Geography
What is the strait separating Spain from Africa?
The Strait of Gibraltar
What is the national animal of Spain?
The Bull
Before Madrid, which city was the capital of Spain?
Until the year 1561, Toledo was the capital of Spain.
Which Spanish football player scored a goal which won the World Cup for Spain in 2010. And he was also named Player of the Tournament as La Roja claimed Euro 2012.
Andres Iniesta
What year did Spain win the World Cup?
2010. They beat the Netherlands 1 - 0
What three countries border Spain?
France, Portugal, and Andorra
What is the most common religion in Spain?
Roman Catholicism
In World War II, did Spain nominally recognize an alliance with the Allies or Axis powers?
The Spanish State under Francisco Franco espoused neutrality as its official wartime policy.
He is best known for being the author of Don Quixote (1605, 1615). Who is this celebrated figure in Spanish literature?
Miguel de Cervantes
What is the national flower of Spain?
The Red Carnation
What is the highest peak in Spanish territory?
Mount Teide, at 3718 m is the highest peak of Spain, a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Which famous painting did Pablo Picasso create in Paris between the months of May and June 1937?
Guernica
Which kingdom occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries
The Visigothic Kingdom
Who was the former Prime Minister of Spain before the current incumbent Pedro Sánchez?
Mariano Rajoy Brey served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence ousted his government.
What is the pilgrimage across Northern Spain?
The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James
What is the third largest city in Spain by population?
Valencia, is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia
What was the name of the unit of currency used in Spain before the Euro?
The peseta was established as the basic unit of the Spanish monetary system by means of a Government Decree enacted on 19 October 1868.
What year did the Spanish Civil war end?
1939. On March 28, 1939, the Republicans finally surrendered Madrid
Which Spanish Tennis Player has won the most grand slams? Hint: Ranked number one in the world in 2010
Rafeal Nadal. He has won 22 Grand Slam men's single titles.
The Spanish language worldwide has around 483 million native speakers, and has the second most native speakers. What language has the most native speakers in the world?
Mandarin (1,118 million speakers)
Spain is regarded as the fourth largest European nation by geographical area. What three countries are larger?
1. Russia with 3,952,5501,526,090 km2,
2. Ukraine 603,549233,032 km2,
3. France 543,941210,017 km2,
4. Spain 498,485 km2
In royal succession, who is the presumptive heir to the Spanish throne?
Leonor de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz, the eldest child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, is currently the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne.
Where is the oldest known cave painting in the world located?
Cáceres, Spain. The oldest known cave painting is a red hand stencil in Maltravieso cave, Cáceres, Spain. It has been dated using the uranium-thorium method to older than 64,000 years and was made by a Neanderthal.
Which Spanish actor won an Oscar Academy Award in 2007 "No Country for Old Men"
Javier Bardem
What four other languages besides Castilian are spoken in Spain?