Terms of Italian origin
Italian term designing the independent photographers who take pictures of celebrities.
Who are the paparazzi ?
Philosophical Chinese symbol that represents opposite forces that interact.
What is Yin Yang ?
Name given to the Boers’ migrations from the 1830s.
What is the Great Trek ?
Biggest mammal of the world.
What is the whale ?
This scandal cost Richard Nixon his position of US president.
What is the Watergate ?
Italian word designing often illegal writings or drawings on a surface.
What is a graffiti ?
Symbolized by Castor and Pollux, this is the 3d astrological sign, and that represents duality.
What is Gemini ?
Known as the city of gold, this is the largest town of South Africa and it shelters the Constitutional Court of the country.
What is Johannesburg ?
The biggest castle in the world.
What is the castle of Versailles ?
Her name has been associated with a scandal that involved president Bill Clinton.
Who is Monica Lewinsky ?
Italian term designing a failure.
What is a fiasco ?
Term designing something not explicit, that may have several meanings.
What is ambiguity ?
This animal symbolizes South Africa.
What is the Sprinbok ?
The biggest carnivorous mammal on earth (not in the seas).
What is the polar bear ?
Queen Elizabeth II gave this name to year 1992, partly because of scandals in the royal family.
What is Annus Horribilis ?
Italian word that indicates the speed/pace of a piece, and generally used in music.
What is a tempo ?
Mental illness with periods of depression and periods of elevated mood.
What is bipolarity ?
This South African nationalist was the head of the far-right organization AWB before his assassination in 2010.
Who was Eugene Terre’Blanche ?
The biggest crustacean in the world.
What is the Japanese spider crab ?
This corruption affaire broke out in France in 1892 concerning the building of a famous project.
What is the Panama scandal ?
Italien term meaning « updating » or « bringing up to date ».
What is an aggiornamento ?
This Roman god has got two faces looking at opposite directions.
Who is Janus ?
This South African politician has been prime minister (1958-1961), and is considered as an important theorician of Apartheid.
Who was Hendrik Vervoerd ?
The name of the tallest man of the 20th century.
Who was Robert Wadlow ?
This scandal of the 18th century involved the Queen of France Marie-Antoinette.
What was the affair of the diamond necklace ?