1. Which African country has Spanish as an official language?
2. According to the Guinness record book, how many letters does the
longest Spanish word have?
3. Which U.S. state has Spanish as an official language?
4. Who were the main translators of the most popular Spanish Bible?
5. Charles V said he spoke Spanish when speaking to whom?
6. Approximately what percentage of the world's Spanish-speaking population
lives in the United States?
7. Which language is most similar to Spanish?
8. ¿Cuál es algo y nada a la vez?
9. What Spanish-language country has currency that's printed in English?
10. The word chocolate came to Spanish from what language?

Here are the answers to the trivia quiz:

1. Equatorial Guinea. It was formerly a Spanish colony.

2. Superextraordinarísimo, according to the Guinness record book. The word is a superlative meaning "the most superextraordinary." However, there area longer words.

3. New Mexico. Bilingualism was part of the state's original Constitution.

4. The Bible was translated by Casiodoro de Reina in 1569 and revised by Cipriano de Valera  in 1602. The translation has been updated several times since.

5. Charles V is reported to have said, "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."

6. About 9 percent. At last count here are about 22 million Spanish speakers in the United States out of a world Spanish-speaking population of 262 million.

7. Portuguese, although Catalan is a close second.

8. This is a pun. The question has two meanings in Spanish: What is something and nothing at the same time? and What is something and swims at the same time? The answer: a fish.

9. The U.S. dollar is the official currency of Panama, where it's called the balboa. Panama has its own coins, however. The U.S. dollar also has official or semi-official status in some other countries, including Guatemala and Ecuador. The dollar is also the de facto currency for foreign visitors in Cuba as well as residents who purchase foreign goods.

10. The word originally came from Nahuatl, an indigenous Mexican tongue. The word eventually became part of the Spanish vocabulary, and then English.