Many sports are televised in the United States. In 1996, the longest-running locally produced sports show went off the air in Boston. Which of the following sports was featured on this show? A. Basketball B. Baseball C. Candlepin bowling In the winter sport of curling, a stone weighing more than forty pounds is slid along […]
What motivates people to buy things? Why do you make the decisions you do? Here are some different priorities around the world. Which of the following Japanese concepts is an important motivational factor? A. Giri B. Kanban C. Zaibatsu “What do you do?” is a normal icebreaker in the USA. To a great extent, a […]
Match the volcanoes with their countries. A. Etna 1. Hawaii B. Izalco 2. Ecuador C. Mauna Loa 3. El Salvador D. Cotopaxi 4. Italy True or false: Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. Match the lakes to their lands. A. Great Bear 1. South Australia B. Titicaca 2. Sweden C. Nicaragua 3. […]
France has a literary tradition unsurpassed by any nation. Match the French authors with their works. A. Gustave Flaubert 1. Nausea B. Jean-Paul Sartre 2. Germinal C. Émile Zola 3. Madame Bovary True or false: The all-time best-selling German fiction writer is Karl May, author of Wild West adventures. Match the following Caribbean authors (and […]
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart made their first film together, To Have and Have Not, on which Caribbean island? A. Aruba B. Barbados C. St. Kitts D. Cuba E. Martinique In the 1962 epic Taras Bulba, the country that doubled for medieval Poland was: A. Spain B. Argentina C. Scotland D. Nicaragua The 1969 classic […]
Brazil is the largest country in South America — so big that it shares a border with all but two South American nations. Chile is one, and the other is: A. Ecuador B. Bolivia C. Paraguay D. Guyana True or false: Vatican City, the site of the Holy See, is one of the twenty official […]
Nowadays you might say, “rich as Croesus,” “rich as Midas,” or “rich as Bill Gates,” but in the mid-1500s you probably would’ve said, “rich as Potosí.” Back then, the silver mines of Potosí were the largest and wealthiest in the New World.After yielding some 20,000 tons of silver, its precious-metal deposits were exhausted. What country […]
Match the occasion when a gift is absolutely required with the country. A. July 15 and January 1 1. United Arab Emirates B. Every stage of a deal 2. Nicaragua C. Secretarial services 3. Japan Your Singaporean client looks stricken when he sees the gorgeous hand-tooled cowhide boots you had made especially for him. True […]
The two A-OK gestures (a circle of the index finger and thumb, or a thumbs-up) that are so popular in the United States are extremely rude in many parts of the world. Pick the country where one or both of these well-meaning A-OK gestures are obscene. A. Brazil B. Australia C. Spain D. Middle Eastern […]
