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Who sang «La flaca»?
Answer: Jarabe de Palo
Who sang «Bulería»?
Answer: David Bisbal
Which country was O-Zone, the band behind «Dragostea din tei», from?
Answer: Moldova
Which town are the Estopa brothers from?
Answer: Cornellà de Llobregat
Who was the first singer of La Oreja de Van Gogh?
Answer: Amaia Montero
Who was the singer of El Canto del Loco?
Answer: Dani Martín
Who sang «Despacito» with Daddy Yankee?
Answer: Luis Fonsi
What was Shakira's song for the 2010 World Cup called?
Answer: «Waka Waka»
Who sang «Corazón partío»?
Answer: Alejandro Sanz
Who sang «Sobreviviré» in 2000?
Answer: Mónica Naranjo
Who sang «Soldadito marinero»?
Answer: Fito & Fitipaldis
Which band sang «Tengo un tractor amarillo» («I have a yellow tractor»)?
Answer: Zapato Veloz
Who sang «Malo»?
Answer: Bebe
Which city is the band Amaral from?
Answer: Zaragoza
Who sang «Opá, yo viazé un corrá»?
Answer: El Koala
Who sang «Gasolina» in 2004?
Answer: Daddy Yankee
What language is «Ai se eu te pego» sung in?
Answer: Portuguese
Who sang «Macarena»?
Answer: Los del Río
Which country is PSY, of «Gangnam Style», from?
Answer: South Korea
Which team did Spain play in the 2010 World Cup final?
Answer: The Netherlands
Who scored Spain's goal in the Euro 2008 final?
Answer: Fernando Torres
How many European Championships did Spain's men's team win between 1964 and 2024?
Answer: Four
Where was Rafa Nadal born?
Answer: Manacor
Which country hosted the 2010 World Cup?
Answer: South Africa
In which sport did Carolina Marín win Olympic gold at Rio 2016?
Answer: Badminton
What was Fernando Torres's nickname?
Answer: El Niño (the Kid)
What is Usain Bolt's 100 metres world record?
Answer: 9.58 seconds
Which sport does Marc Márquez compete in?
Answer: Motorcycle racing
Which region is tennis player Carlos Alcaraz from?
Answer: Murcia
What is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula?
Answer: Tagus
How many autonomous communities does Spain have?
Answer: 17
How many provinces does Spain have?
Answer: 50
Which country does Spain NOT share a land border with?
Answer: Italy
Which Spanish city is famous for its hanging houses?
Answer: Cuenca
Which province is Santiago de Compostela in?
Answer: A Coruña
What is the capital of La Rioja?
Answer: Logroño
Where is «kilometre zero» of Spain's roads?
Answer: Puerta del Sol, Madrid
What is the largest province in Spain?
Answer: Badajoz
What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
Which island is Mahón (Maó) on?
Answer: Menorca
Which autonomous community is Doñana National Park in?
Answer: Andalusia
What are Spain's two autonomous cities?
Answer: Ceuta and Melilla
What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
How many pesetas was one euro worth?
Answer: 166.386
When is Constitution Day celebrated in Spain?
Answer: 6 December
In which year did Spain join the European Economic Community?
Answer: 1986
Which city hosted the 1992 World Expo?
Answer: Seville
In which year was Felipe VI proclaimed king?
Answer: 2014
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
What was the name of the oil tanker that sank off Galicia in 2002?
Answer: Prestige
In which year did compulsory military service end in Spain?
Answer: 2001
Which Spanish city was called Emerita Augusta in Roman times?
Answer: Mérida
In which 1805 naval battle did the Spanish and French fleet face the British?
Answer: Trafalgar
In which year did the Titanic sink?
Answer: 1912
Who was the first human to travel into space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin
Who was the first prime minister elected in democracy in Spain, in 1977?
Answer: Adolfo Suárez
In which year did Pluto stop being considered a planet?
Answer: 2006
How many bones does an adult human body have?
Answer: 206
Which chemical element has the symbol «Fe»?
Answer: Iron
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
What animal was Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell?
Answer: A sheep
Which Spanish scientist won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his work on neurons?
Answer: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
What did the Spaniard Isaac Peral invent?
Answer: An electric submarine
Which household invention is credited to the Spaniard Manuel Jalón?
Answer: The mop with a wringer bucket
What is the closest star to the Earth?
Answer: The Sun
Which blood type is the universal donor?
Answer: O negative
Roughly how fast does light travel?
Answer: 300,000 km per second
Which gas do plants take from the air for photosynthesis?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
Which object is the «save» icon in many programs?
Answer: A floppy disk
Roughly how much did a recordable CD hold?
Answer: 700 MB
How many characters fitted in a text message (SMS)?
Answer: 160
In parchís (the Spanish ludo), how many squares do you move when you capture a piece?
Answer: 20
In chess, which piece moves in an L shape?
Answer: The knight
Which town in Alicante is soft turrón typical of?
Answer: Jijona (Xixona)
If you find the bean in the roscón de Reyes, what do you have to do?
Answer: Pay for the roscón
What milk is Manchego cheese made from?
Answer: Sheep's milk
What is sprinkled on Galician-style octopus (pulpo a feira)?
Answer: Paprika
Which sauce are calçots eaten with?
Answer: Romesco
What is Valencian horchata made from?
Answer: Tiger nuts
Which island is the ensaimada pastry typical of?
Answer: Mallorca
On which day does San Fermín start with the «chupinazo» rocket?
Answer: 6 July
In which town is the Tomatina held?
Answer: Buñol
On which night are the Fallas burnt in Valencia?
Answer: The night of 19 March
What is Canarian gofio?
Answer: Toasted cereal flour
Which sweet is typical of All Saints' Day, 1 November, in Spain?
Answer: Huesos de santo («saint bones»)
Which region is fabada (bean stew) typical of?
Answer: Asturias
Which region is mojo picón sauce typical of?
Answer: The Canary Islands
In which museum is «Guernica» on display?
Answer: Reina Sofía
Who painted «Las Meninas»?
Answer: Velázquez
Which architect designed the Sagrada Família?
Answer: Antoni Gaudí
Which architect designed the Guggenheim Bilbao?
Answer: Frank Gehry
Who wrote «Manolito Gafotas»?
Answer: Elvira Lindo
Who wrote the «Memorias de Idhún» saga?
Answer: Laura Gallego
Who wrote «Lazarillo de Tormes»?
Answer: It's anonymous
Who painted «The Garden of Earthly Delights»?
Answer: Hieronymus Bosch
What animal is Platero, from «Platero y yo»?
Answer: A donkey
Who wrote «The House of Bernarda Alba»?
Answer: Federico García Lorca
Who wrote «One Hundred Years of Solitude»?
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
Who painted the melting clocks in «The Persistence of Memory»?
Answer: Salvador Dalí
In Enid Blyton's «The Famous Five», who was the fifth?
Answer: A dog
What was Don Quixote's horse called?
Answer: Rocinante
Which band sang «Aserejé» («The Ketchup Song»)?
Answer: Las Ketchup
How many Spice Girls were there?
Answer: Five
Who scored Spain's goal in the 2010 World Cup final?
Answer: Andrés Iniesta
Which city hosted the 1992 Olympic Games?
Answer: Barcelona
What is the highest peak in Spain?
Answer: Teide
Which city is the Alhambra in?
Answer: Granada
In which year did euro notes and coins arrive in Spain?
Answer: 2002
In which year did Columbus reach America?
Answer: 1492
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three
What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
How many grapes do Spaniards eat on New Year's Eve?
Answer: Twelve
Who painted «Guernica»?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

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