European Language Day

Easy

100

What is the currency in the Netherlands?

a) euro

b) florin 

c) dutch guilder

a) euro 

200

The river that flows through London is...?

Thames

300

Name the colors of the French flag.

blue, white, and red

400

Rouge is French for...? (color)

Red

500

How many Länder (federal states) does Germany consist of?

a) 13

b) 16 

c) 9 

b) 16

Kind of easy

100

the word sauna comes from which language? 

a) Finnish

b) Danish

c) English 

d) Greek

a) Finnish

200

What does tak mean in Danish?

a) yes

b) please 

c) thank you

d) no

c) thank you

300

Since January 2020, Holland is officially referred to as...?

the Netherlands

400

the oldest language in Europe is:

a) Basque

b) English

c) French

a) Basque

500

How many letters are in the Polish alphabet? 

a) 23

b) 32 

c) 40 

b) 32

Harder

100

The two oldest universities in the UK are in the cities:

a) Cambridge and London

b) Cambridge and Oxford

c) Oxford and London

b) Oxford and Cambridge 

200

Pomodoro means tomato in which language:

a) Spanish

b) Greek

c) Italian

d) Portoguese 

c) Italian

300

in Croatian raspberry is:

a) bobica

b) malina 

c) borovnica 

b) malina 

400

When your Czech friend says, "mam napad!", it means

a) he will sneeze

b) he's been robbed 

c) he has an idea

c) he has an idea

500

Which of the following languages is not a Slavic language?

a) Belarusian

b) Slovenian

c) Latvian

c) Latvian

Haaaaard

100

How would you say "day" in Spanish? 

a) la dia

b) el dia 

c) daya

d) el daya 

b) el dia

200

the Swedish word konkurs means:

a) to win something

b) bankruptcy 

c) contest 

d) sea

b) bankruptcy

300

What does the Irish word glas mean? 

a) glass

b) green

c) cup

d) grass

b) green

400

Built between 1887 and 1889, it stands 300 meters tall and cost $1.5 million to build. The structure consists of over 18,000 elements connected by over 2.5 million rivets and weighs approximately 10,500 tons.

The monument described is... 

The Eiffel Tower

500

In which European country is learning a foreign language not compulsory in schools?

a) France

b) Spain

c) Ireland 

c) Ireland 

Super hard

100

Which of the following is the oldest written European language still in use today?
A) Basque
B) Greek
C) Latin

b) Greek

200

In which country is the official language, among others, sign language?

a) New Zealand

b) Luxembourg 

c) Morocco 

a) New Zealand

300

Which of these countries has TWO official languages?
A) Ireland
B) Portugal
C) Denmark

a) Ireland

400

Who was the creator of Esperanto?

a) Ferdinand de Saussure

b) Ludwik Zamenhof

c) Miguel de Cervantes

b) Zamenhof

500

How many official languages does the UE recognize? 

a) 27

b) 28

c) 24

d) 12 

c) 24