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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 richest man within the European Union in 2018
The President of the European Council and former Polish PM
A TV parody of Donald Trump ("tusk" means "crazy")
A winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
2. What applies to around 90% of the Polish population?
They regard the Communist era in a positive light.
They are Catholic.
They speak Russian as a first or second language.
They live in rural areas.
3. What is King John III. Sobieski's most notable feat?
Introducing Christianity by massacring pagan tribes
Defeating the Turks at the Battle of Vienna
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?
Exclusively female monarchs reigned over Poland.
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.
6. Which of these people was not Polish?
John Paul II.
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Kafka
Marie Curie
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
w
d
j
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?
Volga
Elbe
Danube
Vistula
10. How many people approximately live in Poland?
40 million
75 million
5 million
18 million
11. What was the Solidarity movement opposed to?
The Pope
The Austrian empire
The Communist regime
The Nazi occupation
Its leader, Lech Wałęsa, became president of the republic in 1990.
12. Which book did Henryk Sienkiewicz write?
Ben-Hur
Quo Vadis
The Grass Crown
I, Claudius
13. Which of these movies was made by a Polish director?
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The French Connection
Chinatown (1974) was directed by Roman Polanski.
14. Who lived in present-day Polish city Toruń?
Thomas Aquinas
Claudius Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nostradamus
15. Which historical event is known as "Potop", or "Deluge"?
The devastating invasion of the Swedish army
It is the Polish name for "Blitzkrieg"
Mass emigration of workers after the fall of communism
A famine that significantly reduced the population shortly before World War I
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