1. Secondperiodquiz – 1968-1989
70 years of European History 1945-2015
1. Whichyear wasthe Prague Spring?
a) 1968
b) 1969
2. What was the name of the firstfemale prime ministerof GreatBritain?
a) Muriel Roberts
b) Margaret Thatcher
3. Whenwas the electionof Karol WojtyłaasPope JohnPaul II?
a) 1980
b) 1978
4. Whenwas Solidarityfounded?
a) 17 September1980
b) 13 December1981
5. What isthe symbolicdate of the communismfall inPoland?
a) 4 June 1989
b) 4 June 1988
6. What was declaredbyJaruzelskion13th December1981
a) A state of war
b) Newpresident
7. What was the name of a physical divisionbetweenWestBerlinandEastGermanyin orderto
keepEastGermans fromfeelingtothe West,erectedin1961?
a) The BerlinWall
b) The East Wall
8. Complete withthe name of the cityandcountry.
At 1:23 a.m.on April 26th, 1986, reactorfourat the nuclearpowerplantnear ……………………,
………………………… exploded,releasing morethan a hundred timesthe radiation of the bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
a) Chernobyl,Ukraine
b) Stockholm,Sweden
9. Who and whensaidthese words„"Houston,the Eagle haslanded."?
a) Apollo11 astronaut Neil Armstrong transmitedthe first words from the surface of the
moon in 1969
b) Yuri AlekséyevichGagarin transmitedthe firstwordsfromthe surface of the moonin
1969
10. Who got the Nobel Peace Prize in1983?
a) Lech Wałęsa
b) WojciechJaruzelski
