Celebrando 300 Quizzes

Answer: Getting married

My first three quizzes placed online after hitting the 200 mark were about specific episodes of the successful TV show "House", starring Hugh Laurie. The show was about a brilliant yet unconventional diagnostician who, with the help of his talented team, is able to spot patients' obscure medical conditions that others can't.

A "casa" in Spanish is a house or home. However, when used as a verb, "casar" or "casarse" means "to get married". Therefore, "el Dr. Casa se casa" means "Dr. House is getting married".

Answer: Balompie

Football, also known as soccer, is one of the world's most popular sports. That is why every four years, many are excited to watch the World Cup, organized by football's governing body: FIFA. Modern football is typically understood to be a British invention, but nations in the Americas also are very passionate about the sport. Many in Brazil and Argentina, for instance, describe "futbol" as a religion.

An alternative way of referring to football is "balompie", which really translates to the exact same thing and comes from "balon" (ball) and "pie" (foot). The word "boliche" means "bowling".

Answer: Guillermo

Many of the most common English names have equivalents in Spanish, though some are easier to catch than others. Some English-Spanish pairs include Henry/Enrique, Robert/Roberto, Francisco/Francis, John/Juan, and Thomas/Tomas. Another such pair is William/Guillermo, and versions of that name are very popular in both languages.

Famous Williams include playwright William Shakespeare, politician William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton, and actor William Shatner. Famous Guillermos include film director Guillermo del Toro, goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, and comedian Guillermo Rodriguez.

Answer: Nubes

Cloud technology revolutionized the computing world because it provided an alternative to deliver resources through the internet, rather than using a hard drive. The term, of course, comes from those fluffy collections of water vapor in the sky. In Spanish, clouds are called "nubes". They are in the sky ("cielo") and rain ("lluvia") falls from them.

Answer: Trece

The Author's Lounge is one of my main sources of inspiration on FunTrivia and it certainly helped me reach this 300th quiz milestone! The "Full Deck" challenge asked authors to include a number between two and ten (or the words Jack, Queen, King, Ace, or Joker) in the title of a quiz. Over a period of eight months, I managed to write a quiz for each required category, and I learned a lot while getting there!

In Spanish, "cuatro" means "four", "siete" means "seven", and "diez" means "ten", all numbers found between 2 and 10. The only one that did not fit was "trece", which means "thirteen" (not to be confused with "tres", which stands for "three"). Thirteen is often associated with bad luck and indeed, some people suffer from triskaidekaphobia, a fear of Friday the 13th. In countries like Spain and Greece, the unlucky 13th occurs when the day falls on a Tuesday.

Answer: El Cazador de Venados

I learned a lot of interesting tidbits while writing that quiz; for example, the fact that in 2018, a U.S. judge sentenced a deer hunter to watch the Disney movie "Bambi" at least once a month! "Cazador" means "hunter" while "venados" is the plural form of "deer". One could also refer to these animals as "ciervos".

When one is eating meat from these animals, it is also referred to as "venado" rather than having a separate word for it ("venison").

Answer: Yes

In various instances, the order of words changes when translating between English and Spanish. For example, "mobile phone" becomes "telefono movil", inverting the original sequence. In the particular case of "Supreme Court", however, the distinction doesn't apply and both translations would be OK. Countries like Argentina, Costa Rica, and Paraguay refer to their highest courts as "Corte Suprema". On the other hand, nations like Mexico, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic call it "Suprema Corte".

Answer: Culpa

The word "culpa" has its roots in Latin, which is why you may have heard the word as part of the expression "mea culpa" (which means "through my fault"). In Spanish, both "fault" and "blame" translate to "culpa". Though less common, the English language also has variations of "culpa"; for instance, one can be exculpated (shown to be not guilty) or inculpated (accused of doing something wrong).

Answer: Vino Tinto

It's easy to find the Spanish equivalent of white wine, "vino blanco", because "blanco" is the word you normally use to talk about that color. It gets a little bit trickier with red wine because "rojo" is the more common way to refer to the color red in Spanish. When talking about red wine, it is almost always referred to as "vino tinto". Spain has some of the world's best red wine regions, including the Tempranillo vineyards of Rioja, Ribera del Duero, and Penedes.

Italy is also renowned for its wonderful red wines, made from grapes like Nebbiolo, Barbera, and Sangiovese. The country has dozens of fantastic wine-producing regions like Tuscany, Puglia, and Piedmont.

Answer: Oye

The Spanish version of "Hey Arnold!" was called "Oye Arnold!", which is an almost literal translation given that "hey" is used in virtually the same way as "oye" is used in Spanish. The word derives from "oir", which means "to hear" ("escuchar" also means the same thing, though the latter is arguably a more careful form of listening). In fact, the roots of the word are Latin and French and originate from the verb "to hear". That is the reason why all proceedings at the U.S. Supreme Court start with the Marshall saying "Oyez!" three times.

"Hey Arnold!" originally aired on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 2004 and was an animated program that told the story of a "football-headed" blond boy called Arnold.