Vocabulary
The Cantonese word that is directly borrowed from English, and means strawberry/草莓.
What is si6 do1 be1 lei4 士多啤梨?
A Chinese poet, active during the Tang dynasty, who wrote famous poems such as "静夜思" "Quiet Night Thoughts"
Who was Li Bai/李白?
What the phrase "Feliz Navidad" means.
What is "Merry Christmas"?
The famous French breadstick.
What is a baguette?
The short, French military general that was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo.
Who is Napoleon?
The 4-character 典故 that involves a turtle and a rabbit.
What is 龜兔賽跑?
The famous children's book that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote.
What is Le Petit Prince?
The festival observed in various East-Asian cultures, based on a different calendar system.
What is Chinese/Lunar New Year?
The Spanish rice dish served with various meats and seafood.
What is a paella?
Shakespeare's famous theatre that burnt down multiple times.
What is The Globe?
The false friend of the English word "library" in French and Spanish.
What is "librairie" or "librería"?
The "first modern novel", written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes
What is Don Quijote de la Mancha?
The equivalent of Christmas celebrated in Belgium, Eastern France, and other francophone countries on the 6th of December
What is Saint Nicholas Day?
The Chinese noodle dish that has infamously hard characters.
What are biang biang noodles?
The Chinese dynasty that gives its name to the biggest ethnic group in China.
What was the Han dynasty?
The Australian slang for "McDonalds".
What is "Maccas"?
The "Four Great Classical Novels" “四大名著" of China.
What are Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义, Water Margin 水浒传, Journey to the West 西游记, and Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦?
The festival that commemorates the visit of the Magi to Jesus Christ.
What is L'Épiphanie/La Epifanía/Epiphany?
The key ingredient in the famous UK dish, black pudding.
The Austrian Queen of France that was beheaded during the French Revolution in 1789. She allegedly said "let them eat cake".
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The meaning of the word "embarazada".
What is "pregnant"?
The author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Born in 1931, she wrote many acclaimed novels, such as Beloved, Song of Solomon, and Sula.
Who is Toni Morrison?
The name of the celebration of a failed overthrow of the government conducted by a man who tried to blow up the Parliament building in London with gunpowder in 1605.
What is Guy Fawkes night?
The three ingredients that make up “snail butter” of escargot in French cuisine.
What are garlic, butter, and parsley?
The current king of Spain belongs to this royal house, which is of French origin.
What is the house of Bourbon/Borbón?