European General Knowledge Americans May Not Know - Choices #2

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1. Which one is NOT among the top 3 most spoken languages in Europe either by native speakers or by total speakers?

Spanish is the 6th most spoken language in Europe.

English

Russian

French

Spanish

German

2. What is the name of the main Polish anti-communist movement founded in 1980?

Solidarność

Bolsheviks

Kiełbasa

Perestroika

Polszczyzna

Solidarity

Trostskyists

3. Who was the leader of this movement?

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Karol Józef Wojtyła

Lech Wałęsa

Leon Trotsky

4. Which of these flowers is NOT a common European wildflower?

It is the blue vervain (Verbena hastata), indigeneous to the US / Canada.

5. Who or what is t.A.T.u.?

French rail service, fastest in the world in 1981

Latin inscription found on many monuments

Russian female pop duo (1999-2011)

type of tanks used by Nazi Germany

6. What did Faust do?

steal food and money

sign a contract with the Devil

create the Golem

commit suicide over unrequited love

7. Which authors famously thematized this story in their plays or novels?

Mulisch, Pushkin, Wilde, Eco

Alighieri, Hugo, Jiménez, Tolstoy

Marlowe, Goethe, Mann, Bulgakov

Balzac, Lorca, Kafka, Ibsen

8. Who is or was Kaja Kallas?

Former Estonian PM (2021-2024), now Vice President of the European Commission (2024-)

9. What is Domenico Modugno's song "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" more commonly known as?

L'Italiano

Mambo Italiano

O sole mio

Volare

10. Who and when fought the Winter War?

France - Russia, 1812

Russia - Germany, 1914

Soviet Union - Finland,1939-1940

Germany - Soviet Union, 1942-1943

11. Where are you likely to find the bathroom light switches in European buildings?

directly opposite the toilet

above/next to the toilet

anove/next to the sink

outside the room altogether

12. You go to Naples, Italy to try some real Neapolitan pizza. What may you expect to get?

13. How many paid vacation days do European countries generally mandate (as does the EU policy)?

at least 5

at least 10

at least 20

at least 30

at least 40

14. Which of these is the best CEFR level you can have, indicating that your language skills are "proficient"?

15. What is the oldest university still in operation in Europe?

University of Bologna, Italy

University of Coimbra, Portugal

University of Oxford, UK

University of Salamanca, Spain

16. Which picture shows a typical Greek "bouzouki"?

17. How did coffee get introduced to Europe?

Roman invasion of the Middle East (1st century BC)

Arab conquest of Spain (early 8th century)

Ottoman invasion of Southern/Central Europe, esp. Hungary (early 16th century)

Dutch East India Company's trade with South-East Asia and later also Southern Africa (early 17th century)

18. Which country are Mr. Mykhailo Shevchenko and Mrs. Olha Shevchenko probably from?

Both first names and surname are typically Ukrainian - note the ending -enko, "h" in Olha, evident romanization from Cyrillic as per "kh" in Mykhailo, differentiation between i/y in Mykhailo and the ending -o of Mykhailo.

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Poland

Russia

Ukraine

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