The document shows the percentage of correct answers that Portuguese students gave to 26 multiple choice questions about Hungary. The questions covered topics like geography, history, culture and famous Hungarians. The students scored highest on questions about Budapest as the capital (94%) and Hungary joining the EU in 2004 (63%). They struggled most with questions about the highest mountain peak (18%) and the currency (8%).

1. 100
94%
90
85%
80
68%
70 64%
63%
% of correct answers
58% 58%
60 57%
54% 53%
53%
50
42% 42% 42%
40 36%
35% 33% 35%
30 26% 28%
22%
20 18% 18%
14% 17%
10 8%
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Question Number

2. Portuguese Students’
1. What was the name of Hungary during the Roman period? % of correct answers
Answer: Pannonia 18%
2. Name the countries that Hungary is bordered by?
Answer: Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia 35%
3. What is the capital of Hungary?
Answer: Budapest 94%
4. What are the names of the two main rivers of Hungary?
Answer: Danube and Tisza 54%
5. What is the name of the highest mountain peak?
Answer: Kékes 18%
6. How many counties are there in Hungary?
Answer: 19 53%
7. What is the name of the biggest lake of Hungary?
Answer: Lake Balaton 58%
8. What is the form of the state/government?
Answer: Republic 85%
9. What are the colours of the Hungarian flag?
Answer: red-white-green 58%
10. When did Hungary join the European Union?
Answer: 2004 63%
11. Who is the Prime Minister of Hungary?
Answer: Viktor Orbán 33%
12. What is the name of the Hungarian currency?
Answer: Forint 8%
13. Concerning politics, in which year was the big change of the system in Hungary?
Answer: 1989 68%
14. Do you need a visa if you want to stay in Hungary?
Answer: No 36%
15. What is the name of the most typical Hungarian soup?
Answer: Goulash 64%
16. What is the most typical Hungarian drink?
Answer: Wine 14%
17. What kind of food is ’túrórudi’?
Answer: A dairy product 22%
18. Why is Hungary said to be ’the country of thermal water’?
Answer: Because of the thermal springs 42%
19. Do you know what is ’csárdás’?
Answer: A form of folk dance 57%
20. Who invented the ’magic cube’?
Answer: Ernő Rubic 42%
21. Who was the famous Hungarian scientist who discovered vitamin C? Name a vegetable rich in vitamin C.
Answer: Albert Szent-Györgyi /green pepper 26%
22. Who is the famous Hungarian writer who got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
Answer: Imre Kertész 35%
23. Who is the famous Hungarian person who invented the ballpoint pen?
Answer: László Bíró 28%
24. How many times did the Hungarian waterpolo team win the Olympic Games?
Answer: 9 17%
25. In which Spanish team did Ferenc Puskás play? What was his Spanich nickname?
Answer: Real Madrid/Pancho 53%
26. What is Acquinqum?
Answer: An ancient city in old Pannonia province. 42%