Culture
Etymology
Famous Phrases
People
Miscellaneous
100
C'est la vie
That's life!
100
Say "water" in any language other than English
aqua, agua, wasser, eau, etc.
200
Name two words that can be derived from the Latin "bene," meaning good
benefactor, benefit, beneficial, etc.
300
Name the number of languages being spoken in the world today (range is acceptable)
7,160
400
Cogito, ergo sum
I think, therefore I am
500
These creatures were the focus of a linguistic experiment that showed children learn languages by pattern recognition and not memorization
Wugs 
500
He is known as the father of modern linguistics
Noam Chomsky