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People
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Cyclist who won the 'Tour de France' and the 'Giro d'Italia' five times along with the 'Vuelta a España' once
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Eddy Merckx
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Belgian engineer and co-inventor of the World Wide Web
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Robert Cailliau
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Walloon merchant, founder of New Sweden and Director of New Netherland
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Peter Minuit
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Former Dutch prime minister and Secretary General of NATO
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Mark Rutte
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Current King of the Netherlands
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Willem-Alexander
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Saxon and First 'King of the Belgians'
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Leopold I of Belgium
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Former Luxembourgish prime minister and President of the European Commission in the past
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Jean-Claude Juncker
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Artist known for his numerous self-portraits
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Rembrandt
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Current football player for Inter-Milan and the Dutch national team
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Denzel Dumfries
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Black belt in karate who acted in several movies including 'Street Fighter' and 'Lionheart'
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Dutch singer and contestant in the 2024 Eurovision
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Joost Klein
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Statesman and founder of the Dutch East India Company
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
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Luxembourgish Olympic gold medallist in the 1952 1,500 metres
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Josy Barthel
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Belgian architect who was also a founder of the 'Art Nouveau' style
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Victor Horta
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Former footballer, manager and three time Ballon d'Or winner
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Johan Cruyff
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Flemish artist whose works include 'The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man' and 'The Feast of Venus'
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Artist and creator of the 'The Adventures of Tintin' comic strip
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Hergé
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Prince who led the Dutch revolt against the Spanish
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William of Orange
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Belgian racer and 6 time winner of the 24hrs of Le Mans who also won 8 Formula 1 grand prix
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Jacky Ickx
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Belgian mathematician and priest who came up with the 'Big Bang' theory
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Georges Lemaître
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Dutch explorer who mainly voyaged around Oceania, in fact he has a major island there named after him
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Abel Tasman
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Belgian cartographer who is known for his self-named map projection
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Gerardus Mercator
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Philosopher and theologian who translated the New Testament into Latin
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Erasmus
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Belgian artist who painted 'The Son of Man','Ceci n'est pas une pipe' and 'Golconda'
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René Magritte
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Luxembourgish cyclist known as the 'Angel of the Mountains', who won the 'Tour de France'
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Charly Gaul
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Dutch mathematician and astronomer who invented the pendulum clock and discovered Titan
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Christiaan Huygens
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Landmarks
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Major Dutch gardens with a large variety of colourful flowers
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Keukenhof
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Belgian forest whose floor is densely covered by purple flowers
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Hallerbos
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Palace and official residence of the Belgian Royal Family, with a major park surrounding it
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Palace of Laeken
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Lengthy race track and host of the Belgian Grand Prix, located amidst the Ardennes Forest
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Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
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Flemish castle where the count of the region resided
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Gravensteen
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Landmark made out of steel, built for the 1958 World Fair
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Atomium
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Dutch amusement park themed around mythology and legends
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Efteling
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Largest Dutch Castle with large gardens and parks
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De Haar Castle
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Bodies of Water
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Twisty river and site of one of the final WWI battles
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Meuse River
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Shallow 'sea' that in reality is an intertidal zone
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Wadden Sea
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Dutch river with both a province and a major bay are named after this
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IJssel River
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Distributary river of the Rhine and indirect link between major Dutch ports and Germany
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Waal River
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About half of Belgium lives along this river whose is in the Netherlands and Belgium
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Scheldt River
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Culture
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Thin type of waffle usually in the shape of a circle
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Stroopwafel
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Belgian comic strip and movie franchise whose protagonists include 'Papa _____'
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The Smurfs
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Chocolate sprinkles usually put on bread
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Hagelslag
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Dutch smooth and slightly salty cheese
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Edam
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Mythical ghost ship that was said to always be sailing
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Flying Dutchman
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Hard cheese made from cow's milk
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Gouda
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Credits:
• This quiz is a collaboration with SilverDog so feel free to try some of his lovely quizzes!
• YungBabass made a similar quiz which I encourage you to try
• Partial features of the map were made by amCharts and I am able to use these under this license
• Populations are from City Population
To make the quiz more "serious", I would merge the part of the instructions and the first caveat into one single caveat, reserving the instructions part... for the instructions.
Also, since you have some empty space on the map, adding a key on the SVG itself could be a good idea, but that's just a detail.
More important: you should add the "border" class to your path, to don't have any scale issues when zooming on the map, with strokes, like it's currently the case.
Otherwise, good map.
Merci et bonne journée!
I have fixed some type-ins.
Thank you for trying my quiz :)
Thank you for trying my quiz :)
Thank you for trying our quiz :)
Thanks for trying the quiz!
Thanks for trying it!
Also maybe accept more lenient spellings, as Dutch has many double vowels which feel very random to a non-native speaker :D
Overall nice work, a new quiz of this series is always warmly welcomed :)
Thanks for constantly giving feedback and trying my quizzes :D
Everything requested was fixed!
I was wondering whether "Ardennes" should be a type-in for the Ardennes Offensive, but perhaps that would make it too easy......
Ardennes should now work as a type-in.