Countries with Spanish as a national official language Quiz

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Spanish Speaking Country Quest Quiz

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Created Mar 31, 2012 in Language
Featured Mar 13, 2013
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	thedpr:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 17:12 GMT		-4 points
	I thought Spanish is not an official language in Mexico?

	teddy144:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 17:42 GMT		0 points
	I knew all of these except Equatorial Guinea. It surprises me that after 45 years of independence from Spain, they still speak Spanish.

	AxelDeGraaf:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 17:50 GMT		4 points
	Equatorial Guinea for the win ! missed 3 other tough

	Ulkomaalainen:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 17:53 GMT		21 points
	Former colonies (EqG maybe less than others) often face the problem that the borders were drawn by the colonial powers who didn't give a flying procreation about ethnicities of the people living there, which often leads to completely different peoples with different languages living in the same country. This often means that the colonial language is the only one everybody speaks. Think what would have happened if some country outside of Europe colonized Northwestern Europe. Then everybody must learn say Xhosa, thanks to the overlords, but normally they would still speak Dutch, German, English, Danish, Norwegian, French, ... And after that's the case for a generation or two, it's no use to artificially change it to some indigenous one - and which one should it be anyway?

	Strummer174:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 18:37 GMT		3 points
	Apparently they speak English in Belize. Interesting.

	antoniobroto:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 18:39 GMT		4 points
	Poor EqGuinea, always forgotten... Not in Spain, I promise!

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	Cecispanda:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 18:40 GMT		2 points
	Got Equatorial Guinea... somehow overlooked Venezuela, d'oh. So there I was trying to decide if the Philippines had Spanish and Tagalog, or just Tagalog... chose wrong lol.

	demonstah:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 18:49 GMT		33 points
	@chillin - No, it's not. The United States has no official language.

	tescohorseburger:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 19:22 GMT		24 points
	lol @ Chillin. well done on completely making a fool of yourself!

	LICA98:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 19:52 GMT		0 points
	Why Mexico is on this quiz?? Mexico has no official language.

	LICA98:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 20:02 GMT		0 points
	Also it should be Spanish-speaking (with a -).

	WeaselKing1000:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 20:17 GMT		5 points
	@Ulkomaalainen Very well put. :)

	mattgordon:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 20:24 GMT		7 points
	@Strummer174 Belize used to be called British Honduras until it gained independence

	Go_Phils:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 21:18 GMT		7 points
	Vatican City? I hear Pope Francis's first act would be to make Spanish the official language . . . (just kidding)

	witz1960:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 21:26 GMT		2 points
	@Strummer174. Belize was formerly known as British Honduras - if that helps

	marceloOrigoni:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 21:48 GMT		3 points
	5 minutes is way too much time, it took me less tahn 30 seconds (and knowing all the correct answers) to finish, 2 minutes should be enough

	LICA98:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 22:20 GMT		1 point
	In the description it reads "Have we got a quest for tu." They forgot the accent in tú.

	LICA98:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		-1 points
	@marceloOrigoni Well done, but you made a typo in "than".

	tjgolaso:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 23:27 GMT		10 points
	silly Sporcle, they speak Mexican in Mexico

	deuce221:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 23:28 GMT		6 points
	@Teddy144 Why would that surprise you? Most of the rest of these countries broke away from Spain hundreds of years ago, and they still speak Spanish. A national language is not exactly one of those things that just goes away overnight or that can even be changed over the course of a few decades.

	scotch6:	Mar 13th, 2013 at 23:57 GMT		2 points
	@Go-Phils, the new pope is Argentinian of Italian descent so I don't think so! hehe

	LICA98:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 00:27 GMT		-1 points
	@tjgolaso You're joking, right?

	DenaiRebecca:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 00:33 GMT		2 points
	According to Google Spanish is the official language of Paraguay, why does it turn red?

	dancastro:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 00:40 GMT		5 points
	@scotch6: not only Argentinian, he was born at six blocks from my home! Today it was a happy day for me, no doubt.

	LICA98:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 00:46 GMT		1 point
	@DenaiRebecca Maybe you clicked the wrong one? Paraguay is a correct answer.

	chriskotx:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 00:57 GMT		2 points
	@dancastro: I thought of you when I heard about the new Argentinian Pope today and wondered what connection you might have with him (even wondered if you WERE him :) - Felicitaciones a ti y a todos alla en tu pais.

	ACL:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 01:05 GMT		4 points
	Just because it is the official language doesn't necessarily mean everyone speaks it, or that it's everyone's primary language, or even that it's widely spoken in general. Especially in Africa, European languages are more like lingua francas - the language of government and official business, because of the colonial legacy and euro-language education systems.

	dancastro:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 01:10 GMT		1 point
	@chriskotx: thanks!

	FishyInSpain:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 02:33 GMT		0 points
	It´s been done many times, but good nonetheless. Are the answers random, cuz more than half of the correct answers were in a row for me. Hey Sporcle moderators- you need to change the spelling of tu in the description. Tu means your, where as tú (note the tilde, aka accent mark) means you

	sk8rfinn:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 02:47 GMT		5 points
	@FishyInSpain: An accent mark and a tilde are not the same thing. A tilde is the squiggly thing (~).

	charolastra:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 03:14 GMT		6 points
	@FishyInSpain: Since tú is being used as an object in that sentence, wouldn't it be "ti"? Even Spanglish has its own rules...

	DidiDastardly:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 17:03 GMT		2 points
	With their capital being Port of Spain, I thought Trinidad and Tobago was a safe guess... alas!

	LICA98:	Mar 14th, 2013 at 23:47 GMT		-1 points
	@FishyInSpain That's the same thing I said earlier.

	shakescene:	Mar 15th, 2013 at 02:43 GMT		3 points
	So Andorra doesn't have French & Spanish as official languages, it's Catalan. Silly me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra

	Teary_Ennui:	Mar 15th, 2013 at 14:17 GMT		2 points
	"Have we got a quest for usted" if you don't mind, Sporcle... ; )

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