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Friday, September 1, 2017
Poland Quiz
See if you can answer these quiz questions pertaining to POLAND without the help of literary resources and the Internet. Answers are provided at the end — I wish you good luck!
1) How many countries share a land border with Poland?
A — 2
B — 5
C — 7
2) Currently as of September 2017, which Polish city does not have UNESCO World Heritage Site status for its historic district?
A — Kraków
B — Lublin
C — Zamość
3) True or False: The village of Koniówka contains a wooden tower with a "sacred" bell, the sound of which is meant to ward off "cloud demon" weather spirits.
4) The forested, southernmost border of Poland straddles the Carpathian mountain range. What horizontally oriented country — of which the east to west length is longer than the north to south length — is found immediately to the south of Poland?
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5) A national census revealed that Polish is the second-most spoken language in a European country. In which country is this the case?
A — ESTONIA
B — MALTA
C — UNITED KINGDOM
D — PORTUGAL
ANSWERS
Question 1:
C . . . . . 7 (seven): Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad exclave), Slovakia, and Ukraine
Question 2:
B . . . . . Lublin
Question 3:
A . . . . . True
Question 4:
Slovakia
Question 5:
C . . . . . United Kingdom
So, how did you do? Thanks for taking this quiz! The map image above is credited to National Geographic's Mapmaker Interactive (↗).
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