Foreign Names Quiz 1

1. The French name for this stretch of water is La Manche, what is the English name?

2. Known as Hellas in its native tongue, what is the English name of this country?

3. Which group of islands in the Aegean Sea has a name meaning 12 islands?

4. What is the Hindi name for India?

5. What is the Russian name for Moscow, the capital of Russia?

6. Which island situated on the tip of South America has a name meaning Land of Fire?

7. The German name for this large lake is Bodensee, what is its English name; Lake Constance, Perseverance, Wonderful, Superior, Quirky

8. Known in Romanian as the Dunarea and in Hungarian as the Duna, what is the English name of this great river?

9. The Nepalese call it Sagamartha and in Tibet it is Mi-ti gu-ti cha-pu long na what is its English name?

10. Which great river takes its name from the Indian word meaning Destroyer of Boats?  

ANSWERS

1. English Channel

2. Greece

3. Dodecanese

4. Bharat

5. Mosckva

6. Tierra Del Fuego

7. Constance

8. Danube

9. Mount Everest

10. Amazon

  

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