Spanish Culture
This is the name of the traditional Spanish rice dish that originated in Valencia, often gaining its color from saffron and cooked with seafood and/or vegetables.
What is paella?
This iconic French pastry is known for its crescent shape, buttery layers, and flaky texture.
What is a croissant?
This major European mountain range forms a border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees (Los Pirineos/Les Pyrénées)?
In French youth slang, words are "inverted" syllabically, like femme (woman) becoming meuf, which is called this.
What is verlan?
This is the Spanish tradition of eating small, savory dishes or appetizers alongside drinks.
What is tapas?
This major French national holiday is celebrated on July 14th with military parades and fireworks to commemorate the turning point of the French Revolution.
What is Bastille Day (or Le Quatorze Juillet)
Both nations observe Carnaval (Mardi Gras) before the start of this Christian liturgical (related to a public religious service or ritual) season.
What is Lent?
If someone in Spain says a situation is "pan comido" (literally "eaten bread"), the task would likely be described as such.
What is easy? (any form of easy/light work will suffice)
This famous annual festival takes place in Buñol and involves throwing ripe tomatoes at one another.
What is La Tomatina?
This cycling race is held annually in July and is the most prestigious and famous bicycle race in the world.
What is the Tour de France?
Around Three Kings' Day (Épiphanie/Día de los Reyes Magos), this traditional sweet cake hidden with a tiny figurine (a fève or figura) is eaten. Both French and Spanish names will be accepted.
What is Galette/Gâteau des Rois or Rosco de Reyes?
What is broke? (any form of broke/penniless would be accepted)
At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, Spaniards traditionally eat twelve of this specific food for good luck.
What are grapes?
The French culinary term for the precise art of cutting vegetables into matchstick-like strips is called this.
What is Julienne?
French regions like Bordeaux and Bourgogne as well as Spanish regions like La Rioja and Catalonia are known for producing this refreshment.
What is wine?
In France, if someone tells you to "tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche" (to turn one's tongue seven times in one's mouth) before speaking, they are giving you this advice.
What is "to think before you speak"? (biting your tongue will not be accepted, some variations of "think before you speak" will be allowed)
Deriving derives from the Latin phrase hora sexta, meaning the "sixth hour", this term passed into Spanish, originally referring to a rest during the hottest part of the day.
What is siesta?
Celebrated on February 2nd, La Chandeleur (Candlemas) is traditionally celebrated by eating crêpes. According to folklore, you must hold this object in your hand while flipping the crêpe to ensure financial prosperity for the year.
What is a coin?
This language, known locally as Euskara, is primarily spoken in Euskal Herria, a mountainous region that straddles the western Pyrenees along the border of northern Spain and southwestern France.
What is Basque?
"Se faire poser un lapin" (literally "to have a rabbit placed on you") in French and "dejar plantado" (literally "to leave someone planted") in Spanish both refer to this unfortunate situation one might encounter after planning a rendezvous.
What is "to be stood up"? (little margin for correct answers)