knowledge quiz about Poland

1. PROGRAMME ERASMUS+
„MATHS IN ART”

2. He was the first king of Poland
Our school has got his name

3. His real name is Karol Wojtyła
He was an actor, a poet and the Pope

4. He was an astronomer
He moved the Earth and stopped the Sun

5. She was a physicit and chemist
She was the first woman who won the
Nobel Prize and the first person and the
only woman who won tiwce

6. He was an electrician at Gdańsk Shipyard
He was a co-founded and a head of
„Solidarity”
He won the Peace Nobel Prize

7. He was a pianist and a composer
He wrote music in a romantic style mainly
for the solo piano

8. He was a sience fiction writer
His books were translated into 41
languages
The most famous books are Solaris and
Fables for robots

9. He is the best Polish foolballer
He scored 5 goals in 9 minutes in German
Bundesleague

10. She is one of the best models in the world
She comes from Częstochowa

11. A city with a mermaid
The capital of Poland

12. It is called spiritual capital of Poland
In this monastery there is a miracle icon of
Black Madonna

13. One of the oldest cities in Poland
It was a capital of Poland
Wawel Dragon used to live there 

14. It’s a typical Polish dish
It consists of sour cabbage, meat and
mushrooms

15. It’s a bird
25% of its population lives in Poland

17. Windscreen wipers were invented in
Poland by Józef Hofmann

18. Well known cosmetic company Max Factor has
got Polish origin. The real neme of the owner
is Maksymilian Faktorowicz.

19. Mieczysław Wolfke invented hologram.

20. The bulletproof vest was
created by a Polish inventor
called Jan Szczepanik in 1901.

21. In 1853, Ignacy Łukasiewicz found a way to distill a substance
called kserone (or parrafin) from oil. Łukasiewicz also
introduced first modern street lamps in Europe and created first
oil refinery.

22. Jan Heweliusz, Polish astronomer
invented the periscope.

23. It was developped by two Polish lieutenants –
Józef Kosacki and Andrzej Garboś at the end
of year 1941.

24. German military messages enciphered on the Enigma
machine were first broken by the Polish engineers.
Cryptanalysis of the Enigma enabled the western Allies
in World War II to read substantial amounts of secret
Morse-coded radio communications.

25. The blue laser was also invented by Polish
scientists.

26. Henryk Magnuski, an engineer at Motorola, was the
principal engineer on the team that created the first
walkie-talkie.

27. Polish pianist Józef Hofmann inspired by
the treble clef invented paper clip.

28. Matrix was written by Wachowski brothers.

29. and many other useful
inventions come from
Poland…….