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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what did Prometheus steal for humanity before Pandora’s creation?

Answer

Fire

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, who created Pandora from clay according to later retellings?

Answer

Hephaestus

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, Pandora was created as a punishment ordered by which god?

Answer

Zeus

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What coming-of-age tradition is the quinceañera often compared with because both formally present a young woman to society?

Answer

Debutante ball

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Quinceañera

Who directed the 2006 film Quinceañera, which won major prizes at the Sundance Film Festival?

Answer

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Quinceañera

Which period of Mexican history helped popularize European-style quinceañera customs among wealthy families?

Answer

Porfiriato

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What Spanish word describes the quinceañera’s formal escort or attendant in many traditions?

Answer

Chambelán

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What Spanish phrase means “fifteen years” and gives the celebration its age-based name?

Answer

Quince años

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What Spanish word means the scepter sometimes carried by a quinceañera?

Answer

Cetro

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What Spanish word means the crown or tiara presented to a quinceañera?

Answer

Corona

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Quinceañera

In a traditional quinceañera court, what Spanish word names the female attendants?

Answer

Damas

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Quinceañera

What Spanish phrase commonly describes the quinceañera’s thanksgiving Mass?

Answer

Misa de acción de gracias

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