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European Day of languages AGG

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the first language spoken in outer space?

a)

English

b)

Russian

c)

German

2.

What "dead language" is still spoken in the Vatican City?

a)

Italian

b)

Greek

c)

Latin

3.

What language (along with traditional Chinese) is the oldest written language still in use today

a)

Latin

b)

Greek

c)

French

4.

What are the only two living languages from the Baltic languages family?

a)

Estonian and Latvian

b)

Latvian and Lithuanian

c)

Lithuanian and Estonian

5.

What is the second most widely spoken language in the EU?

a)

French

b)

German

c)

Russian

d)

Spanish

6.

Which of these countries does not use Euro?

a)

Portugal

b)

Norway

c)

Austria

d)

Germany

7.

Which is the oldest language still spoken in Europe?

a)

Basque (Spain)

b)

Greek

c)

Romanian

d)

French

8.

Which of the following languages are written from right to left?

a)

Maltese

b)

Japanese

c)

Arabic

9.

The European Day of Languages was started in

a)

2000

b)

2001

c)

2002

d)

2003

10.

What is the German word for their underground system?

a)

Metro

b)

Bahnhof

c)

Cercaniaz

d)

U-bahn

11.

From which language do we get the word graffiti ?

a)

Italian

b)

German

c)

English

d)

Spanish

12.

In which of the following countries is German an official language?

a)

Liechtenstein

b)

Austria

c)

Belgium

d)

in all of them

13.

Which country uses the internet code SE? (e.g. www.website.se)

a)

Sweden

b)

Switzerland

c)

Singapore

14.

In which language does 'Erdkunde Lehrerin' mean 'Geography Teacher'?

a)

Hungarian

b)

German

c)

French

d)

Swedish

15.

In which country do people speak Flemish?

a)

Flemland

b)

Finland

c)

Croatia

d)

Belgium

16.

How do you say yellow in German?

a)

gelb

b)

jaune

c)

amarillo

d)

yellowj

17.

Which country's name means 'low land'?

a)

Sweden

b)

Switzerland

c)

Finland

d)

Netherlands

18.

Where does the word 'alphabet' come from?

a)

From the first two letters of the Greek Alphabe

b)

From Sanskrit

c)

From the name of the Greek god Alphaeus

d)

from the Egyptian word for 'writing'