Traiasca Romania! - All About Romania Quiz

Answer: Long live Romania

The yell is commonly heard in soccer stadiums whenever Romania has to play against another country. It comes from a song that repeatedly states the following three phrases:
"Trăiască libertatea, trăiască România,
Trăiască în fericire si liniste poporul,
Trăiască România trăiască tricolorul."
This means: "Long live freedom, long live Romania, that its people may live in happiness and peace, long live Romania, long live the tricolours (blue/yellow/red represents the Romanian flag).

Answer: The queues are formed from left to right and don't leave privacy for the one being helped at the front of the queue

When it comes to queuing, Romanians are not very polite people. It is said that queuing sideways probably started in the Communist era under Ceausescu, when food rations were low and people were suspicious of each other. One was generally struggling to survive and had no time to be courteous, as any courtesy was an opportunity for taking advantage. Standing from left to right, and leaving no space between the person being helped and the successor, serves better the purpose of maintaining one's place in line, than when waiting one behind each other. (people can less easily sneak in front of you).

It might take another couple of decades for this habit to die out and become uniform to the queueing standards of Western Europe.

Answer: Cerbul De Aur (Golden Stag)

Cerbul De Aur has existed since 1968 and is held in the city of Brasov, in central Romania. A lot of international guest singers have performed there too, such as Gilbert Becaud, Josephine Baker, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Martin and Pink.

Stufstock: a combination of the Romanian word Stuf, which means reed - and stock from Woodstock. It's meant as a protest against what some Romanian people consider to be bad quality music. (for instance, 'manele' and Romanian pop music)

George Enescu Festival: the biggest festival for classical music in Romania.

Tanjaua = a Folk dance and music festival, held in the spring.

Answer: No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain)

Due to poor organisation by the crew guide, as well as the unfriendly local treatment the crew received at various sights and restaurants, this episode turned out to be a negative experience for the crew.
The show is watched by over 100,000,000 people world wide.
The Romanian episode even became a scandal story in the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul.
As a comfort to our Romanian quiz players: the show had also had bad experiences, and sometimes worse ones, in Iceland, Korea, Beirut, New Orleans and Scotland.

Answer: Hungarians

Hungarians make up for 6.60% of the population. Roma Gypsies are second with 2.46% of the population while Ukrainians and Jews both have less than 2%.

Answer: Megastar

The show is broad casted on the Romanian television by Prima TV and hosted by Andreea Marin. The quality of contestants lies far below the level of its Western European or United States' equivalent but the show is still hugely popular in Romania.

Answer: Basescu

Traian Basescu used to be an officer in the Navy. In 2000 he became the mayor of Bucharest until 2004, the year he was elected president of Romania.
He was a popular mayor of Bucharest and he used to order signs along newly asphalted streets in the city, saying: "Here is your money" - a reassurance to the citizens of Bucharest that their tax payments were put to good use, instead of in the pockets of the local politicians.

Iliescu was elected president of Romania for eleven years (three terms), from 1990 to 1992, 1992 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004.
Eminescu is a famous Romanian poet, and Constantinescu was President of Romania between 1996 and 2000.

Answer: Sarmale

Sarma comes from the Turkish verb sarmak. It means "wrapping" or "rolling".
It's a bit like Dolma, and the two names are used in many South-Eastern European countries for similar leafed meat rolls.

Answer: Ozone

A trio of Moldavian origin, the group broke up in 2005.
'Dragostea din Tei' reached Number 1 in many European countries in 2003 and 2004. Another single called "Despre tine" from the same album was about as successful across Europe as the first hit. The band never entered charts in the USA.
"Dragostea din tei", in spite of a little explosion of popularity was never played on the radio in the USA and therefore Americans know little about the song.

Answer: Gheorghe Zamfir

Gheorghe Zamfir sold over 40 million albums and won a lot of album awards. Nicknamed 'Master of the pan flute', he is known to get as many as nine different tones out of each pipe of the pan flute.
His music can be heard in a lot of 1980s' Hollywood movies like "Karate Kid".
His most famous song is 'The Lonely Shepherd', featured in "Kill Bill vol 1".