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Poland Multiple Choice
How much do you know about Poland?
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Last updated: February 10, 2019
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1. Who is Donald Tusk?
A TV parody of Donald Trump ("tusk" means "crazy")
The richest man within the European Union in 2018
The President of the European Council and former Polish PM
A winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
2. What applies to around 90% of the Polish population?
They speak Russian as a first or second language.
They live in rural areas.
They regard the Communist era in a positive light.
They are Catholic.
3. What is King John III. Sobieski's most notable feat?
Attacking Prussia and occupying Berlin for a short time
Defeating the Turks at the Battle of Vienna
Introducing Christianity by massacring pagan tribes
Refusing to flee the country in World War II and fighting for the Underground State
4. What are pierogi?
Dumplings
Soups
A kind of cheese
Sausages
5. What is remarkable about the time between 1795 and 1918?
Poland did not exist as a sovereign country.
Exclusively female monarchs reigned over Poland.
Christians, Jews and Muslims were granted equal rights under the Edict of Warsaw.
The city of Danzig was destroyed in 1795 and not re-settled until 1918.
6. Which of these people was not Polish?
Franz Kafka was a citizen of Austria-Hungary, then of Czechoslovakia. He lived in Prague.
Frédéric Chopin
John Paul II.
Franz Kafka
Marie Curie
7. Regarding pronounciation, which letter from the English alphabet is most similar to the Polish letter ł?
d
w
v
j
8. Whose native language was Polish?
He was born as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. He wrote his books, among them "Heart of Darkness", in English, which he learned in his twenties.
J. D. Salinger
Herman Melville
Bram Stoker
Joseph Conrad
9. Which of these rivers passes through Poland?
Danube
Vistula
Volga
Elbe
10. How many people approximately live in Poland?
18 million
75 million
40 million
5 million
11. What was the Solidarity movement opposed to?
Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, became president of the republic in 1990.
The Communist regime
The Austrian empire
The Pope
The Nazi occupation
12. Which book did Henryk Sienkiewicz write?
I, Claudius
Quo Vadis
Ben-Hur
The Grass Crown
13. Which of these movies was made by a Polish director?
Chinatown (1974) was directed by Roman Polanski.
Chinatown
The French Connection
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
14. Who lived in present-day Polish city Toruń?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thomas Aquinas
Nostradamus
Claudius Ptolemy
15. Which historical event is known as "Potop", or "Deluge"?
Mass emigration of workers after the fall of communism
The devastating invasion of the Swedish army
It is the Polish name for "Blitzkrieg"
A famine that significantly reduced the population shortly before World War I
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Levisek27
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Nov 7, 2024
Update the Tusk question. He is the PM rn.
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