The Spanish Language trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 The Spanish Language questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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Which letter does the Spanish alphabet have that the English alphabet lacks?Very easy
Answer: Ñ (eñe)
Which punctuation mark must be written at the start of a question in Spanish?Very easy
Answer: The inverted question mark (¿)
By what other name, taken from a historical region of Spain, is the Spanish language also known?Very easy
Answer: Castilian (castellano)
Complete the Spanish proverb: 'Ojos que no ven…'?Easy
Answer: Corazón que no siente
What is the usual word in Spain for a computer, which most of Latin America calls 'computadora'?Easy
Answer: Ordenador
Complete the Spanish proverb: 'En boca cerrada no entran…'?Easy
Answer: Moscas
In Venezuela, Colombia and the Caribbean, what does the word 'chévere' mean?Intermediate
Answer: Great (cool, excellent)
From which language of the Inca Empire, still spoken in the Andes, do the words 'cóndor', 'puma' and 'papa' come?Intermediate
Answer: Quechua
Complete the Spanish proverb: 'A caballo regalado no se le mira el…'?Intermediate
Answer: Diente (el dentado, el colmillo)
What is the name of the pronunciation feature, general in Latin America, of saying 'z' and soft 'c' with the sound of 's'?Hard
Answer: Seseo
In which year was the Real Academia Española founded, during the reign of the first Bourbon king, Philip V?Hard
Answer: 1713
What is the name of the Spanish-based language preserved by the descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492?Hard
Answer: Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
The tilde on the letter Ñ began in medieval manuscripts as a scribal abbreviation for which pair of letters?Very hard
Answer: Double n (nn)
Which Aragonese librarian wrote almost single-handedly the 'Diccionario de uso del español', published in 1966 and 1967?Very hard
Answer: María Moliner
What noble title was held by Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, founder and first director of the Real Academia Española?Very hard
Answer: Marquis of Villena (Duke of Escalona)
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