SPAIN ON THE GLOBAL STAGE JEOPARDY

SPANISH GEOGRAPHY

100

WHICH IS THE CAPITAL OF SPAIN?

MADRID

200

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MOUNTAINS THAT SEPARATE SPAIN FROM FRANCE?

THE PYRENEES MOUNTAINS

300

WHICH ARE THE TWO MAIN ARCHIPELAGOS IN SPAIN AND WHERE ARE THEY?

THE BALEARIC ISLANDS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND THE CANARY ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, NEXT TO AFRICA

400

WHAT IS THE NAME OF A FOREIGN COLONY LOCATED IN THE SOUTH OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA?

GIBRALTAR (BELONGS TO THE UK)

500

WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE PHYSICAL BORDERS WITH SPAIN?

PORTUGAL, FRANCE, ANDORRA, MOROCCO AND THE UK (CONSIDERING GIBRALTAR)

SPANISH POLITICS

100

TRUE/FALSE: SPAIN HAS A CONSTITUTION

TRUE! THE 1978 CONSTITUTION, AFTER THE FRANCO DICTATORSHIP

200

SPAIN IS A...

-A) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

-B) PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHY

-C) EMPIRE

-D) COMMUNIST SOVIET

-B) PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHY:

The king acts as a Head of State within the limits granted by the Constitution; legislative power lays on a democratically elected parliament, and the executive power on the prime minister, responsible under the parliament

300

SPAIN BELONGS TO:

-A) EUROPEAN UNION

-B) NATO

-C) UNITED NATIONS

-D) ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE CORRECT

-D) ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE CORRECT

400

HISTORICALLY, SPAIN HAS HAD STRONG TIES TO (MORE THAN ONE ANSWER IS POSSIBLE):

-A) LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

-B) RUSSIA

-C) THE PHILIPPINES 

-D) ECUATORIAL GUINEA

-A) LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES (SPANISH AMERICAN)

-C) THE PHILIPPINES

-D) ECUATORIAL GUINEA

500

SPAIN'S CURRENT PRIME MINISTER BELONGS TO:

-A) THE SOCIALIST PARTY (LEFT)

-B) THE POPULAR PARTY (RIGHT)

-C) PODEMOS (FAR LEFT)

-D) VOX (FAR RIGHT)

-A) THE SOCIALIST PARTY (LEFT)

HISTORY

100

FRANCISCO FRANCO'S DICTATORSHIP TOOK PLACE IN THE:

-A) 18TH CENTURY

-B) 19TH CENTURY

-C) 20TH CENTURY

-C) 20TH CENTURY (1939-1975)

200

THE 15TH CENTURY SPANISH MONARCHS FERDINAND AND ISABELLA WERE CALLED:

-A) THE VISIGOTHIC MONARCHS

-B) THE ABSOLUTIST MONARCHS

-C) THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS

-C) THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS

300

TRUE/FALSE:

SPAIN ONCE ENCOMPASSED PORTUGAL TOO AS A PART OF SPAIN

TRUE! THIS HAPPENED BETWEEN 1580 AND 1640 UNDER PHILIPP THE 2ND. KING SEBASTIAO DE PORTUGAL DIED WITHOUT HEIRS AND PHILILPP WAS ONE OF THE PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE

400

SPAIN LOST ITS LAST TERRITORY IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT IN:

-A) 1492

-B) 1898

-C) 1975

-B) 1898 (CUBA AND PUERTO RICO)

500

TRUE/FALSE:

ENGLAND HAD A QUEEN OF SPANISH ORIGIN

TRUE! SHE WAS CATHERINE OF ARAGON, HENRY THE 8TH'S WIFE. SHE WAS ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS