Poland Multiple Choice

How much do you know about Poland?

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1. Who is Donald Tusk?

The richest man within the European Union in 2018 ✓

A TV parody of Donald Trump ("tusk" means "crazy") ✓

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 speak Russian as a first or second language. ✓

They regard the Communist era in a positive light. ✓

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 ✓

Introducing Christianity by massacring pagan tribes ✓

Attacking Prussia and occupying Berlin for a short time ✓

Refusing to flee the country in World War II and fighting for the Underground State ✓

4. What are pierogi?

A kind of cheese ✓

Sausages ✓

Soups ✓

Dumplings ✓

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. ✓

Christians, Jews and Muslims were granted equal rights under the Edict of Warsaw. ✓

Poland did not exist as a sovereign country. ✓

Exclusively female monarchs reigned over Poland. ✓

6. Which of these people was not Polish?

Frédéric Chopin ✓

Marie Curie ✓

John Paul II. ✓

Franz Kafka ✓

Franz Kafka was a citizen of Austria-Hungary, then of Czechoslovakia. He lived in Prague.

7. Regarding pronounciation, which letter from the English alphabet is most similar to the Polish letter ł?

v ✓

j ✓

d ✓

w ✓

8. Whose native language was Polish?

J. D. Salinger ✓

Joseph Conrad ✓

Bram Stoker ✓

Herman Melville ✓

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.

9. Which of these rivers passes through Poland?

Danube ✓

Elbe ✓

Vistula ✓

Volga ✓

10. How many people approximately live in Poland?

40 million ✓

18 million ✓

75 million ✓

5 million ✓

11. What was the Solidarity movement opposed to?

The Austrian empire ✓

The Nazi occupation ✓

The Communist regime ✓

The Pope ✓

Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, became president of the republic in 1990.

12. Which book did Henryk Sienkiewicz write?

Quo Vadis ✓

Ben-Hur ✓

I, Claudius ✓

The Grass Crown ✓

13. Which of these movies was made by a Polish director?

Chinatown ✓

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest ✓

The French Connection ✓

Taxi Driver ✓

Chinatown (1974) was directed by Roman Polanski.

14. Who lived in present-day Polish city Toruń?

Nostradamus ✓

Nicolaus Copernicus ✓

Thomas Aquinas ✓

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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