Vocabulary
True or False
Multiple Choice
Short Answers
Translation: Famous Phrases and Idioms
100

Spanish word for boyfriend or girlfriend (romantically speaking) 

Novio o novia

100

The meaning of the Italian word "ciao" is "hello"?

False: it means "hello" and "goodbye".

100

The National Anthem of France called:

a) Non, Je ne regrette rien

b) La Marseillaise

b) La Marseillaise

100

Spoken by this Indigenous culture for 13 centuries Quiche is Guatemala's 2nd-most widely spoken tongue

The Mayan culture

100

What is the equivalent translation of this Spanish idiom in English, "hijo de tigre nace pintado"?

Like father like son.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

200

The Spanish gender neutral pronoun

Elle

200

Does France have territories in North America?

True: They have a territory called "Collectivité Territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon" near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

200

Who said this Famous phrase in French, "Madame Bovary c’est moi."?

a) Marcel Proust

b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

c) Gustave Flaubert

c) Gustave Flaubert, author of the the novel "Madame Bovary".

200

Mam is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico's Chiapas state & by around a half million in this country


Guatemala

200

Translate this famous French phrase into English, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche".

"Let them eat cake."

300

French word for "cake"

Gâteau

300

The Hebrew word "shalom" means goodbye?

False: it means hello and goodbye.

300

Who was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature?

a) Pablo Neruda

b) Miguel Ángel Asturias

C) Gabriela Mistral

C) Gabriela Mistral in 1945

300

Dialects of English include this London one with distinctive rhyming slang

Cockney

300
What is the equivalent of this Italian phrase in English, "in bocca al lupo!"?
"Good look!"
400

Italian word for "paper"

La carta

400

The word Spanish word "ananás" is a synonym of "avocado"?

False: it is a synonym of pineapple.

400

Who said this famous phrase in Spanish, "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz"?

a) Isabel Allende

b) Benito Juárez

c) Gabriel García Márquez

b) Benito Juárez

400

Spanish Dutch & Belarusian are all part of this family of languages; Estonian isn't

Indo-European

400

Translate this Latin phrase into English, "Veni, vidi, vici".

"I came; I saw; I conquered."

-Julius Caesar 

500

Brazilian Portuguese word for "cup"

Xícara

500

The Spanish word "osculo" means "kiss"?

True: osculo is an educated way to say "beso" in Spanish.

500

The famous phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is from:

a) The Tales of Canterbury

b) Don Quixote

c) The Divine Comedy

c) The Divine Comedy

500

Paul's letters in the New Testament were written in a version of this language called Koine

Greek

500

Translate this famous Italian phrase into English, "Il fine giustifica i mezzi".

"The end justifies the means." 

-Niccolò Machiavelli