Statistics for Top 30 most important and famous people from Poland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Pope from 1978 to 2005	Pope John Paul II/Karol Józef Wojtyła	92%
Female physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, two times winner of Nobel Prize	Marie Curie	88%
Renaissance polymath and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center	Nicolaus Copernicus	88%
The greatest composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period	Fryderyk Chopin	87%
Director of The Pianist and Chinatown, winner of Academy Award in 2003	Roman Polański	75%
Statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1983, who served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995	Lech Wałęsa	73%
Footballer who played in Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona	Robert Lewandowski	71%
President from 2015	Andrzej Duda	52%
Writer, known for his best-seller Quo Vadis, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	44%
Writer, key figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's Three Bards, considered Poland's greatest poet	Adam Mickiewicz	42%
Footballer of 1980s, legend of Juventus. Current UEFA vice-president	Zbigniew Boniek	42%
Statesman who served as the Chief of State from 1918 to 1922 and First Marshal of Poland	Józef Piłsudski	40%
Female writer, author of Flights, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018	Olga Tokarczuk	38%
Painter, key exponent of XIX century history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history	Jan Matejko	37%
Female poet, author of Some Like Poetry, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996	Wisława Szymborska	35%
Writer, one of the Three Bards, a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama	Juliusz Słowacki	33%
Director, known for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation, Kanał and Ashes and Diamonds	Andrzej Wajda	31%
Writer, author of Rescue, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980	Czesław Miłosz	31%
Priest and friar, died in the German death camp of Auschwitz	Maximilian Kolbe	29%
Female sprinter, 7 times winner of Olympic medals, only athlete in history to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m	Irena Szewińska	25%
Doctor known as the creator of Esperanto	L. L. Zamenhof	25%
Female revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Member of the Spartacus League	Rosa Luxemburg	25%
Director of Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique	Krzysztof Kieślowski	23%
Star of the silent and golden era of Hollywood, known for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles and was acknowledged as a sex symbol	Pola Negri	21%
Writer, one of the second generation of romantics, author of A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem	Cyprian Norwid	13%
Romantic poet, one of the Three Bards	Zygmunt Krasiński	13%
Female mystic, who had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy	Faustina Kowalska	8%
Philosopher, social theorist, who wrote about issues of modernity, the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity	Zygmunt Bauman	6%
Logician, known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic	Alfred Tarski	4%
One of the greatest pianists of all time	Arthur Rubinstein	4%