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100
What is the name of the most famous forest in our region where bisons live?
Białowieża Primeval Forest
100
What is the name of the most famous palace in Bialystok?
Branicki Palace
100
What are the colours of the Polish national flag?
white (top) and red (bottom)
100
Who was Poland’s most famous composer? (born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland, died in Paris in 1849 in his home at Place Vendôme 12 and buried in Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris)
Frédéric François Chopin
100
Polonez is the name of Polish ... ?
dance
200
What are the most known mountains in the south of Poland called?
the Tatra Mountains
200
What is the last name of Ludwik, who was born in Białystok and was the inventor of Esperanto, a language for international communication?
Zamenhof
200
What is the Polish word for "Poland"?
Polska
200
Name one of the world’s greatest science fiction writers. His novel Solaris was made into a movie in 2002.
Stanisław Lem
200
Who was the producer of the Oscar winner film "Pianista" ("The Pianist")?
Roman Polański
300
How many people live in Poland?
over 38 million
300
What is the name of a graphic artist and animator, best known for his Oscar-nominated short movie, The Cathedral (2002). He comes from Białystok.
Tomasz Bagiński
300
What is the capital of Poland?
Warsaw
300
Who was the first president of Poland who was democratically elected in 1990, was the leader of the "Solidarity" movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Lech Wałęsa
300
What is the name of the best Polish tennis player?
Agnieszka Radwańska
400
What is the name of the sea in the north of Poland?
the Baltic Sea
400
What does the name Białystok mean?
biały: white stok: river (in old Polish language)
400
What is the name of the author of "Quo Vadis" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
400
What is the name of a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity? She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Marie Skłodowska Curie
400
How would you greet someone in Polish?
Dzień dobry!
500
What is the name for the highest mountain in the Tatra Mountains?
Rysy (2499m)
500
What is the address/street name of our school?
Fabryczna 10
500
The highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, was named after which Polish General?
Tadeusz Kościuszko (who fought against the Russian Empire as well as in the American Revolutionary War)
500
What is the name of a mathematician and astronomer who said that the Sun, and not the Earth, was at the center of the universe?
Nicolaus Copernicus
500
What is the name of the Polish currency?
Polish Złoty (PLN)