Songs
“Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” is a song by this famous Colombian singer, songwriter and dancer.
Who is Shakira?
This is what the Japanese warriors are called.
What is a Samurai?
This alcoholic beverage is drank throughout almost every Russian meal.
What is vodka?
This is the traditional food people eat for the mid-autumn festival in China.
What are Mooncakes?
This US state is closest in size to Spain
What is Texas?
Common Latin phrase used to mean “the other way around” or “conversely,” that literally translates to “the position having been reversed
What is "Vice Versa?"
This is a famous film featuring Omar Sy about a wealthy Parisian quadriplegic hiring a young caretaker.
What is Les Intouchables?
This is the Russian word for “music” (it’s easier than you think!)
What is "музыка"?
(pronounced "muzyka")
A series of protests, rebellions, and uprisings that spread across the Middle-East in 2011.
What is the Arab Spring?
This what Chinese/Lunar New Year is also called
What is Spring Festival (Chun Jie)?
This is a common Russian beet soup with a distinctive red color.
What is borshch?
These are the 6 countries surrounding France
What are Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain?
This is what you say when you eat a meal in Japan (in Japanese).
What is "Itadaki-masu"
This famous Mexican directed ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘The Shape of Water’
Who is Guillermo del Toro?
This famous German pop singer is best known for the song Atemlos.
Who is Helene Fischer?
This famous Roman is attributed to the phrase, “veni, vidi, vici?”
Who is Julius Caesar?
This man wrote this german novel Faust
Who is Goethe?
This is the traditional Spanish dish made with yellow rice, chicken and sometimes seafood and vegetables.
What is Paella?
This is the prefecture with the largest area in Japan.
What is Hokkaido?
These four grammatical cases make up German declension
What are the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive?
This Egyptian actor is recognized internationally for his work in his native country and in American cinema. He did Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Who is Omar Sharif?
The hoofed Greek god who loved to play a wind instrument which is named after him.
Who is Pan?
This is the last imperial dynasty of China that used eunuchs.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The Roman name of the popular Greek hero, Heracles
Who is Hercules?
This dessert is made with thin noodle-like pastry, soaked in syrup, typically layered with cheese, and covered with pistachios.
What is Kunafa?
This French region is known for producing some of the best wine in the world.
What is Burgundy?
The three countries and nation states that use Mandarin as (one of the) official languages
What are the People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan), Singapore?
This is the animation film studio based in Tokyo best known for anime films directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
What is Studio Ghibli?
This iconic Egyptian singer lived from 1898-1975. She sold over 80 million records and is nicknamed Egypt’s fourth pyramid.
Who is Umm Kulthum?
These two sides fought during the Spanish Civil War
Who are the Republicans and who are the Nationalists?
Although all day-to-day affairs run on a Gregorian calendar, Islamic holidays and traditions run on this type of calendar.
What is the Lunar Calendar?
Name two Chinese of the provinces/municipalities known for their spicy food
What are the Sichuan/Chongqing/Hunan/Jiangxi/Guizhou/Hubei?
The modern name for the country where the ancient city of Troy used to be.
What is Turkey?
The region in the north of France is known for speaking this funny sounding dialect.
What is Ch’ti?
This is the 2019 Oscar winner for short animated film that revolves around the story of an empty nest Chinese mother.
What is Bao?
This is the first verse from Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower), sing it
“Hao yi duo mei li de mo li hua…”
This is the year that Germany originally unified, as the German Empire.
What is 1871?
This is a Spanish tradition involving gift-giving to children on January 6th and somewhat equivalent to Santa Claus
What is Los Tres Reyes Magos (the Three Wise Men)?
This is a pastry that french northerners and southerners constantly fight over the name of.
What is pain au chocolat?
The name of this region includes the following Arab countries along the Mediterranean: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
What is The Levant?
In Arabic, there are three numerical conjugations: the singular, the plural and the ______.
What is the dual form?
This early Soviet film, directed by Dziga Vertov, was released in 1929, and features various experimental uses of film and montage.
What is Man with a Movie Camera?
A famous 70s french singer nicknamed “Cloclo” whose hits include “Comme d’habitude” and “Chanson populaire”
Who is Claude Francois?
These are the two official names that the Russian city of St. Petersburg has had in the past.
What are "Petrograd" and "Leningrad"?
This is the number of "officially recognized" ethnic groups in China.
What is 56?
This German dish is made of potato dumplings.
What is Knoedel?
This river, running throughout Western and Southern Russia, is in fact the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga River?
This is the Russian name of a large forest mammal, which literally translates as “honey-knower.”
What is “медведь”?
(pronounced "medved")
This popular Austrian trilogy made in the 1950’s portrays the life of this much beloved Austrian Empress.
What is Sissi?
This is the name of the shortest national anthem in the world.
What is Kimigayo (Japan)?
This is when the year Notre Dame de Paris was originally finished (not including renovations).
What is 1163?
This is the bridge in Paris where you put a lock on the bridge and throw the key in the Seine to signify your love with a significant other.
What is the Pont des Arts?
A condiment of fermented fish sauce, popular in Ancient Roman cuisine.
What is garum (or liquamen)?
These six countries have German as an official language.
What are Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein?
Spanish has many verb tenses. Put the verbs in this third conditional sentence in its proper tense.
“Si tú _____ (haber llegado - pretérito pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo) a tiempo, yo no _____ (haber tenido - condicional perfecto del indicativo) que despedirte.”
(If you had arrived in time, I wouldn’t have had to fire you)
Si tú hubieras/hubieses llegado a tiempo, yo no habría tenido que despedirte
Director of this 2019 Oscar winner for short animated film that revolves around the story of an empty nest Chinese mother.
Who is Domee Shi?
FINAL QUESTION:
These are the four language families that contains all the languages represented by the language advisors?
What are Indo-European (Latin Spanish French German Russian Greek), Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin Chinese), Afroasiatic (Arabic), and Japonic (Japanese)?