Translated Proverbs

Translated Proverbs

The aim of this pub quiz handout round is to come up with 15 well known proverbs from their translations into foreign languages. Five have been translated into French, five into Italian and five into Spanish. For example, the correct answer to "Le stylo est plus puissant que l'épée" is "the pen is mightier than the sword".

While this round would favour anyone familiar with these languages, teams should still be able to work out a number of answers without having any knowledge of these languages.

While the information in this round could be used to make up standard question and answer rounds (where the quiz-master asks questions aloud and the teams write the answers on blank answer sheets) it is recommended that this is used in a quiz as a handout round. For more information on handout rounds and our recommended use for them in quizzes click here.

If you buy this handout round, we will give you access to pdf files you can download. Two of these will be for the main handout sheet - one as illustrated above, and one in a more plain format. The third sheet will contain the answers. You probably already have everything you need to access and use these rounds in your quiz, but you might want to check our requirements page to make sure.


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