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