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