Europe
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auf Deutsch!
100
This European country is home to the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
Greece
100
How many letters are in the Russian alphabet?
29, 33 or 36
33
100
The word "tschüss" is an informal way to say goodbye in which European language?
German
100
How old is someone if they are saying "Ich bin vierundzwanzig Jahre alt."?
24 years old
200
Which country's flag is this?
the Netherlands
200
The European Union is an economic and political union of how many member countries?
22, 27 or 35
27 member countries
200
In what language can you say "gracias" and "buenos días"?
Spanish
200
Ich _______aus Spanien.
A) komme B) kommst C) kommen
Ich komme aus Spanien.
300
The capital of Hungary is...
Budapest
300
This number is the total of language families represented among European languages. What is that number?
7, 9 or 12
9 language families
300
What are the 5 European langueages that have more than 50 million native speakers?
Russian, German, French, Italian, and English
300
How do you say "Excuse me" in German?
Entschuldigung
400
Which European country is known as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes"?
Finland
400
How many letters are there in the longest word of the German language?
45, 79, 103 or 132
79 letters!
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
400
Which European language has the most borrowed words?
English. More than 60% of English words are borrowed from other languages.
400
In how many countries is German the official language?
1, 2, 4 or 6
6 countries: Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein.
500
Danube is the second longest river of Europe, but which is the longest one?
Volga River
500
How many languages are spoken across Europe?
49, 128, 287 or 336
A whopping 287 languages!
500
As a European language, Esperanto has more than 2 million speakers world-wide. However, it is an artificial language.
True or False
True! It is created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887.
500
The German word for French "charcuterie" or Turkish "şarküteri" is also used in English. What is this word?
Delikatessen