The answer to each question is a word in English that is a “false friend” in Dutch. That is, the English word is also a Dutch word, but it means something different than the English word. The correct choice for each question is the English word that corresponds to the meaning in Dutch.
Question # | Translation of question into English | Answer in English | Meaning in Dutch | Number of euros | Green letter |
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1 | What do you call an unexpected ending to a movie or a garnish that is used on many cocktails? | twist | quarrel | 10 | N |
2 | What quantity often has thirteen things as measured by a baker? | dozen | boxes | 10 | E |
3 | What kind of doctor gives a deliberately biased view of a political situation? | spin | spider | 8 | L |
4 | Which word describes a style of dark beer and also a teapot in a rhyming song? | stout | naughty | 1 | L |
5 | What's the word for a published statement that damages a person's reputation? | libel | dragonfly | 10 | V |
6 | What animal is an adult male chicken with a bright red comb on its head? | rooster | schedule | 5 | O |
7 | What kind of romance is Lady Gaga singing about in a 2009 single? | bad | bathtub | 12 | N |
8 | What type of cup is often used to hold hot liquids such as coffee or hot chocolate? | mug | mosquito | 7 | D |
9 | What's the New York City bookstore with the slogan “eighteen miles of books”? | strand | beach | 3 | E |
10 | Which word can follow nail, computer or single? | file | traffic jam | 5 | N |
11 | What name was used for a planet in classical mythology and is also the name of a fallen angel in the Bible? | lucifer | match | 15 | A |
12 | When you order a McKroket, what kind of sandwich do you get? | burger | citizen | 12 | M |
13 | Which chess piece is sometimes referred to by the same word used for a building where a queen or king resides? | rook | smoke | 4 | M |
14 | Which hockey team plays its home games in the city where a famous tea party was held? | Bruins | Browns | 6 | A |
15 | Which member of the garlic family is also known as wild leek? | ramp | disaster | 7 | E |
16 | What word is used for a grotesque or terrifying creature, including one that supposedly lives in a Scottish lake? | monster | sample | 8 | N |
The flag fingerprint in the corner of the screen for each question corresponds to a country that was a filming location for a season of the Dutch reality show “Wie Is De Mol?”. Some seasons filmed in multiple countries; in those cases, the flag is of the last country visited in that season.
The flags are in season order from season 5 to season 20. Reordering the questions by putting the correct answers in alphabetical order (as suggested by the first letters of the wrong answers) makes the green letters spell NAMEN VAN DE MOLLEN, which is Dutch for “names of the Moles”.
Determine the name of the Mole from each of those seasons, then index into the names using the numbers of euros added to the pot, which spells FRIENDLY REMINDER.
Question # | Answer (in English) | Green letter | Country | The Mole | Index | Indexed letter |
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7 | bad | N | Nicaragua | Patrick Stoof | 12 | F |
14 | Bruins | A | Georgia | Jan Versteegh | 6 | R |
12 | burger | M | Dominican Republic | Klaas van Kruistum | 12 | I |
2 | dozen | E | Argentina | Milouska Meulens | 10 | E |
10 | file | N | Philippines | Susan Visser | 5 | N |
5 | libel | V | Jordan | Jon van Eerd | 10 | D |
11 | lucifer | A | Sri Lanka | Margriet van der Linden | 15 | L |
16 | monster | N | China | Rob Dekay | 8 | Y |
8 | mug | D | Spain | Anne-Marie Jung | 7 | R |
15 | ramp | E | Colombia | Merel Westrik | 7 | E |
13 | rook | M | United States | Thomas Cammaert | 4 | M |
6 | rooster | O | Japan | Kim Pieters | 5 | I |
3 | spin | L | Thailand | Inge Ipenburg | 8 | N |
4 | stout | L | Mexico | Dennis Weening | 1 | D |
9 | strand | E | South Africa | Kees Tol | 3 | E |
1 | twist | N | Indonesia | Yvon Jaspers | 10 | R |