Vocabulary
Spanish word for boyfriend or girlfriend (romantically speaking)
Novio o novia
The meaning of the Italian word "ciao" is "hello"?
False: it means "hello" and "goodbye".
The National Anthem of France called:
a) Non, Je ne regrette rien
b) La Marseillaise
b) La Marseillaise
Spoken by this Indigenous culture for 13 centuries Quiche is Guatemala's 2nd-most widely spoken tongue
The Mayan culture
What is the equivalent translation of this Spanish idiom in English, "hijo de tigre nace pintado"?
Like father like son.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The Spanish gender neutral pronoun
Elle
Does France have territories in North America?
True: They have a territory called "Collectivité Territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon" near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Who said this Famous phrase in French, "Madame Bovary c’est moi."?
a) Marcel Proust
b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c) Gustave Flaubert
c) Gustave Flaubert, author of the the novel "Madame Bovary".
Mam is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico's Chiapas state & by around a half million in this country
Guatemala
Translate this famous French phrase into English, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche".
"Let them eat cake."
French word for "cake"
Gâteau
The Hebrew word "shalom" means goodbye?
False: it means hello and goodbye.
Who was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) Pablo Neruda
b) Miguel Ángel Asturias
C) Gabriela Mistral
C) Gabriela Mistral in 1945
Dialects of English include this London one with distinctive rhyming slang
Cockney
Italian word for "paper"
La carta
The word Spanish word "ananás" is a synonym of "avocado"?
False: it is a synonym of pineapple.
Who said this famous phrase in Spanish, "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz"?
a) Isabel Allende
b) Benito Juárez
c) Gabriel García Márquez
b) Benito Juárez
Spanish Dutch & Belarusian are all part of this family of languages; Estonian isn't
Indo-European
Translate this Latin phrase into English, "Veni, vidi, vici".
"I came; I saw; I conquered."
-Julius Caesar
Brazilian Portuguese word for "cup"
Xícara
The Spanish word "osculo" means "kiss"?
True: osculo is an educated way to say "beso" in Spanish.
The famous phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is from:
a) The Tales of Canterbury
b) Don Quixote
c) The Divine Comedy
c) The Divine Comedy
Paul's letters in the New Testament were written in a version of this language called Koine
Greek
Translate this famous Italian phrase into English, "Il fine giustifica i mezzi".
"The end justifies the means."
-Niccolò Machiavelli