European Capitals
The capital of Italy
Rome
"a piece of cake"
Something very easy
The "Romance" languages all derive from this language.
Latin
A guitar traditionally has this many strings.
Six
The combined number of stripes on the Catalan and American flags.
22 (Senyera-9, USA- 13)
The capital of Austria
Vienna
"to see eye to eye on something"
To agree about something
The language with the most native speakers in the world.
Mandarin Chinese
The name of this instrument means "soft" in Italian.
Piano
This American city hosted the Olympics four years after Barcelona in 1996.
Atlanta
Helsinki is the capital of this country.
Finland
"to take something with a grain of salt"
To not take something too seriously
The Breton language is spoken in this country.
France
This influential singer was born in Mississippi and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and became famous for his musical style fusing country with rhythm-and-blues, an image that was sexually provocative for the time, and a popular appeal that transcended race.
Elvis Presley
The names of the upper houses of the American Congress and the Spanish Parliament, which share a common ancestor derived from the Latin word for "old man".
Senate, Senado
Sofia is the capital of this country.
Bulgaria
"to be on the fence about something"
To be undecided
Urdu, spoken widely in Pakistan, written using a variation of the Persian alphabet, is mutually intelligible with this language spoken in India and written in the Devanagari script (like Sanskrit).
Hindi
The leader of Nirvana who famously committed suicide in 1994.
Kurt Cobain
This US state was first settled by Spain in 1513, traded to Great Britain in 1763 after the British victory in the Seven Years' War in exchange for Havana, returned to Spanish control in 1783 after the British defeat in the American Revolution, and finally ceded to the Americans in 1821.
Florida
The capital of Croatia
Zagreb
"to let the cat out of the bag", "to spill the beans"
To reveal a secret
The four official languages of Switzerland
French, German, Italian, Romansch
The four members of the Beatles.
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
The United States ended the Spanish Empire in 1898, interceding on behalf of Cuban revolutionaries against their colonial overlords, resulting in temporary American control over Cuba and the annexation of Spain's last colonial possessions, including Guam, this Southeast Asian island nation, and this Caribbean island, which still belongs to the US.
The Philippines, Puerto Rico