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Poland Quiz for Experts | Europe

A tough historical and geographical quiz about Poland.

A multiple-choice quiz by pmusial. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
pmusial

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
80,014

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
1678

Last 3 plays: Guest 171 (5/10), GoodwinPD (10/10), Guest 136 (4/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. The ruined grave housing Poland's first documented ruler Mieszko I is located where? Hint

Gniezno Cathedral

Royal Castle in Warsaw

Poznan Cathedral

Wawel Cathedral

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Question 2 of 10

2. What Polish city was mentioned in Ptolemy's 'Atlas of the World'? Hint

Kalisz

Krakow

Gdansk

Bydgoszcz

3. The Teutonic knights constructed many castles in Poland's Northern cities. After their fall from power, the castle at one of these four cities was razed to the ground by the angry citizens. Which one was it? Hint

Lidzbark-Warminski

Frombork

Olsztyn

Gdansk

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Question 4 of 10

4. Akademia Gorniczo Hutnicza (a.k.a. Stanislaw Staszic university) is located where? Hint

Warsaw

Krakow

Wroclaw

Poznan

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Question 5 of 10

5. After the death of Casimir III 'The Great' Poland started electing its kings and they were not always Polish. Stefan Batory, for instance, was Duke of ______ . Hint

Transylvania

Saxony

Szombathely

Lithuania

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Question 6 of 10

6. Ruled by Piast princes and the site of 10th century rotundas, this city is carved in half by the border between Poland and the Czech Republic.

Answer: (One Word in Polish (or two in Czech))

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Question 7 of 10

7. Historian Jan Dlugosz lived in what city? Hint

Sandomierz

Czestochowa

none of these

Lublin

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Question 8 of 10

8. After the Second World War a large part of Eastern Poland was annexed to the Soviet Union. Which of these annexed cities was a part of Poland during the 11th century? Hint

Lwow (Lviv)

Brzesc (Brest)

Grodno

Wilno (Vilnius)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Ludwik Zamenhof was a Polish Jew who invented the artificial language Esperanto. Where was he born? Hint

Lodz

Bialystok

Warsaw

Vilnius

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of these cities was burned by Polish armies as revenge for taking Swedish bribes during the Swedish Deluge? Hint

Czestochowa

Kalisz

Leszno

Krakow

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The ruined grave housing Poland's first documented ruler Mieszko I is located where?

Answer: Poznan Cathedral

Mieszko I and Boleslav (Boleslaw) Chrobry both originally had graves in the crypt of Poznan Cathedral, but both graves are now in ruin.

2. What Polish city was mentioned in Ptolemy's 'Atlas of the World'?

Answer: Kalisz

Believe it or not, Kalisz was mentioned in Ptolemy's atlas in the 3rd century AD. It bore the name Calissa and it was a stopping point on the amber route.

Answer: Gdansk

The citizens of Gdansk hated the high taxes of the Teutonic knights so much they razed their castle to the ground after they were defeated by Polish armies.

4. Akademia Gorniczo Hutnicza (a.k.a. Stanislaw Staszic university) is located where?

Answer: Krakow

AGH is one of three famous universities in Krakow in addition to the Jagiellonian University and the Krakow Polytechnic.

5. After the death of Casimir III 'The Great' Poland started electing its kings and they were not always Polish. Stefan Batory, for instance, was Duke of ______ .

Answer: Transylvania

He wasn't Dracula, but he sure was duke of Transylvania. Stefan Batory never learned to speak Polish, but he won one major battle for Poland at Pskov and he quelled rebellions at Gdansk.

6. Ruled by Piast princes and the site of 10th century rotundas, this city is carved in half by the border between Poland and the Czech Republic.

Answer: Cieszyn

The only that is left of the rotundas is a modern reconstruction atop a mound in Cieszyn.

7. Historian Jan Dlugosz lived in what city?

Answer: Sandomierz

In the town of Sandomierz there is a Gothic house (now a museum) that once belonged to Jan Dlugosz.

8. After the Second World War a large part of Eastern Poland was annexed to the Soviet Union. Which of these annexed cities was a part of Poland during the 11th century?

Answer: Brzesc (Brest)

Brzesc was a part of Poland during the 11th century when the country's borders were quite similar to those of today. Oddly enough, the city was annexed to the Soviet Union while the originally Russian city of Belastok remained in Poland.

9. Ludwik Zamenhof was a Polish Jew who invented the artificial language Esperanto. Where was he born?

Answer: Bialystok

10. Which of these cities was burned by Polish armies as revenge for taking Swedish bribes during the Swedish Deluge?

Answer: Leszno

Polish armies took their revenge upon the population of Leszno for not having put up a fight against the Swedes. Prior to this time, Leszno was an important border town with Bohemia and it often housed Bohemian intellectuals who fled there from persecution.

Source: Author pmusial

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