| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Female physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, two times winner of Nobel Prize | Marie Curie | 87%
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| Pope from 1978 to 2005 | Pope John Paul II/Karol Józef Wojtyła | 87%
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| The greatest composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period | Fryderyk Chopin | 86%
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| Renaissance polymath and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center | Nicolaus Copernicus | 84%
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| Footballer who played in Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona | Robert Lewandowski | 76%
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| Statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1983, who served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995 | Lech Wałęsa | 73%
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| Director of The Pianist and Chinatown, winner of Academy Award in 2003 | Roman Polański | 71%
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| President from 2015 | Andrzej Duda | 59%
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| Writer, known for his best-seller Quo Vadis, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 50%
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| Writer, key figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's Three Bards, considered Poland's greatest poet | Adam Mickiewicz | 48%
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| Footballer of 1980s, legend of Juventus. Current UEFA vice-president | Zbigniew Boniek | 47%
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| Painter, key exponent of XIX century history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history | Jan Matejko | 44%
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| Statesman who served as the Chief of State from 1918 to 1922 and First Marshal of Poland | Józef Piłsudski | 43%
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| Female poet, author of Some Like Poetry, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | 42%
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| Writer, one of the Three Bards, a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama | Juliusz Słowacki | 39%
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| Female writer, author of Flights, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | 37%
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| Writer, author of Rescue, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | 33%
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| Director, known for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation, Kanał and Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzej Wajda | 32%
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| Doctor known as the creator of Esperanto | L. L. Zamenhof | 28%
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| Priest and friar, died in the German death camp of Auschwitz | Maximilian Kolbe | 26%
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| Female revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Member of the Spartacus League | Rosa Luxemburg | 23%
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| Female sprinter, 7 times winner of Olympic medals, only athlete in history to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m | Irena Szewińska | 22%
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| Director of Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 21%
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| Star of the silent and golden era of Hollywood, known for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles and was acknowledged as a sex symbol | Pola Negri | 21%
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| Romantic poet, one of the Three Bards | Zygmunt Krasiński | 18%
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| Writer, one of the second generation of romantics, author of A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem | Cyprian Norwid | 17%
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| One of the greatest pianists of all time | Arthur Rubinstein | 9%
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| Female mystic, who had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy | Faustina Kowalska | 9%
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| Philosopher, social theorist, who wrote about issues of modernity, the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity | Zygmunt Bauman | 6%
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| Logician, known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic | Alfred Tarski | 3%
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