# 🌍 Esperanto Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who created the language Esperanto?  
**Answer:** L. L. Zamenhof  
**Taglines:**  
- The man who said “Let’s all speak... this”  
- Zamenhof: built a language from scratch, got zero royalties  
- Linguist, idealist, overachiever  
- Born with a mustache and a dream  
- Esperanto: brought to you by one guy with too much free time  

### 2. In what year was Esperanto first published?  
**Answer:** 1887  
**Taglines:**  
- Pre-Internet, post-sanity  
- 1887: when global communication meant hope and awkward grammar  
- The century said “no,” Zamenhof said “Jes!”  
- Esperanto: now 138 years of trying  
- That’s 1887 reasons to not finish Duolingo  

### 3. What does the word “Esperanto” mean?  
**Answer:** One who hopes  
**Taglines:**  
- You’ll need hope if you want to use it in real life  
- Hope... and a dictionary  
- “Esperanto”: optimism with verbs  
- A name, a mood, a disappointment  
- False hope in fancy vowels  

### 4. What is the title of the original book that introduced Esperanto?  
**Answer:** Unua Libro (First Book)  
**Taglines:**  
- Sounds impressive, is literally “First Book”  
- Creative title: not included  
- Esperanto for “I didn’t bother naming this”  
- Step one: write the book. Step two: get ignored  
- The original grammar gospel  

### 5. How many letters are in the Esperanto alphabet?  
**Answer:** 28  
**Taglines:**  
- Same old alphabet, just spicier  
- Esperanto: now with bonus consonants  
- Slightly more complicated than necessary  
- Alphabet soup with a twist  
- Language of the brave (and bored)  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Esperanto was designed to be a ______ language.  
**Answer:** Universal  
**Taglines:**  
- One tongue to confuse them all  
- Global dreams, niche reality  
- Universal, except nobody uses it  
- Esperanto: everyone’s language, nobody’s native  
- Fluency for world peace (theoretically)  

### 2. The flag of Esperanto features a green background and a white ______.  
**Answer:** Star  
**Taglines:**  
- Like a scout badge for optimism  
- Star of hope... and high expectations  
- Galactic grammar energy  
- Five points for idealism  
- Esperanto: aiming for the stars, landing in Duolingo  

### 3. The name of the global Esperanto organization is the ______ Esperanto-Asocio.  
**Answer:** Universala  
**Taglines:**  
- They really mean it  
- Esperanto fans, assemble!  
- Still hoping after all these years  
- Clubhouse of conlangs  
- Esperanto HQ: where meetings are polite and baffling  

### 4. The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is ______.  
**Answer:** Esperanto  
**Taglines:**  
- The king of fake languages  
- More fluent than Klingon  
- Not saying much, but it’s true  
- Esperanto: winner by lack of competition  
- Top of the nerd charts  

### 5. Duolingo added Esperanto to its platform in the year ______.  
**Answer:** 2015  
**Taglines:**  
- The owl believes in unity  
- Because someone demanded it  
- Duolingo: teaching languages no one speaks  
- 2015: the year Esperanto went mobile  
- Finally, a use for your bathroom breaks  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What language family does Esperanto belong to?  
A) Romance  
B) Germanic  
C) Constructed ✅  
D) Slavic  
**Taglines:**  
- Born in a lab, raised by idealists  
- Constructed: like IKEA, but verbal  
- Fantasy league for languages  
- Not your grandmother’s dialect  
- Conlang power  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the most commonly spoken native language among Esperanto learners?  
A) English ✅  
B) Mandarin  
C) Spanish  
D) Russian  
**Taglines:**  
- Anglos lead the language guilt  
- English speakers trying harder  
- Monolinguals need hobbies  
- Esperanto: brought to you by guilt  
- Polyglots in training  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What is a notable feature of Esperanto grammar?  
A) Gendered nouns  
B) Irregular verbs  
C) Agglutinative structure ✅  
D) Tonal pronunciation  
**Taglines:**  
- Glue your words together like a language craft project  
- One root, endless suffering  
- Grammar by LEGO  
- Word math: solve for confusion  
- Stick it together, call it syntax  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Which of the following is *not* a real Esperanto word?  
A) Kato (cat)  
B) Kuracisto (doctor)  
C) Ŝipo (ship)  
D) Blorplo ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- I made that one up. Probably.  
- Esperanto’s weird, but not that weird  
- Sounds fake? It is.  
- Blorplo: sounds like a sneeze  
- Nice try, conlang cowboy  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What percentage of the world’s population speaks Esperanto fluently?  
A) 0.01% ✅  
B) 1%  
C) 5%  
D) 10%  
**Taglines:**  
- Exclusive and extremely unnecessary  
- A global whisper  
- Fluent in theory  
- Esperanto: elite squad of obscurity  
- Statistically insignificant, grammatically correct
