| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| French | 91%
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| Name the four national languages of Switzerland. | German | 89%
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| Chinese | 85%
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| Which European country is known in its own language as Suomi? | Finland | 85%
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| Italian | 85%
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| English, French and Chinese are three of the six official languages of the United Nations. Name the other three. | Spanish | 85%
|
| English | 84%
| |
| In what country is Tagalog mainly spoken? | Philippines | 80%
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| Arabic | 75%
| |
| Name the four official languages of Singapore. | Malay | 75%
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| Name the official language of Andorra. | Catalan | 74%
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| Russian | 74%
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| Romansh | 66%
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| What letter in English (a consonant) has a sound that may be described as a “voiced labiodental fricative”? | V | 58%
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| Brazil is the only South American country with Portuguese as an official language. Name the only African country with Spanish as an official language. | Equatorial Guinea | 53%
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| Maltese, Hebrew and Arabic belong to which branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family? | Semitic | 47%
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| Tamil | 47%
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| What language has the two-letter ISO 639-1 code sq? | Albanian | 25%
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| In Spanish, the word tres means the number 3 (three). However the same word tres refers to a different number in Danish. What number? | 60 (sixty) | 15%
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| What adjective is used to describe a writing system such as Chinese in which words are represented by whole characters rather than alphabetically? | Logographic | 10%
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