1. LEGENDS
OF MY TOWN
Quiz
on partner countries
Brno, June 3 – June 8

2. In general...

3. Turkey is the biggest country in the project,
while Slovakia is the smallest. How many times do
you think Turkey is bigger than Slovakia?

4. Which partner country has the smallest population?

5. Is Croatia the only
partner in the project
that still isn't a member
of the EU?

6. Which capital cities have
less than 1 million inhabitants?
• Zagreb, Croatia
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Prague, CZ
• Riga, Latvia
• Sofia, Bulgaria
• Bucharest, Romania
• Warsaw, Poland
• Madrid, Spain
• Bratislava, Slovakia

7. Which two partner countries entered the EU in 2007,
during the last enlargement?

8. Sport

9. What is the most popular sport in Latvia?

10. Whitewater slalom is the most successful Olympic sport in
modern-day Slovakia.
How many medals have Slovak canoeists collected on Summer
Olympic Games since their first appearance in Atlanta 1996?

11. Robert Kubica
is the first Polish
_________ .

12. In 2002 Turkish national football team
won _________ place at the World Cup in Japan/Korea.

13. Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova is the current women's
world record holder in the _________ (1987).
a) high jump
b) steeple chase
c) discus throw

14. Janica Kostelić, a former Croatian alpine ski racer,
won Olympic gold _______ times.
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5

15. Martina Navratilova is the most successful Czech
tennis player of all times. How many times did she
reach the Wimbledon singles final?

16. How many times
has
Rafael Nadal
won Grand Slam singles titles?

17. In the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Romanian gymnast Nadia
Comăneci became the first gymnast ever to score _______________ in
an Olympic event. At the time she was only 15 years old.

18. OLYMPIC GAMES MEDALS
Match countries with numbers of medals won
at Olympic Games.
1. Bulgaria
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Latvia
5. Poland
6. Romania
7. Slovakia
8. Spain
9. Turkey
a) 22
b) 28
c) 33
d) 59
e) 87
f) 133
g) 220
h) 285
i) 302

19. History

20. Who was
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk?
a) a famous Czech biologist
b) the first president of
Czechoslovakia
c) the author of the Czech
anthem

21. What was the full name of the first Turkish president?

22. Who was the leader of Solidarity?
a) Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski
b) Karol Wojtyła
c) Lech Wałęsa

23. How many empires did
Bulgaria have in its history?

24. When did Croatia
gain its independence?

25. Ľudovít Štúr was
a) the leader of
the Slovak national revival
in the 19th century,
b) the author of the Slovak
language standard
c) member of the Hungarian
Parliament
d) all of the above.

26. The Roman province of Dacia was formed on
the teritory of which modern European country?

27. Latvia celebrates Independence
day on 18 November.
On that day, Latvia
a) gained its independence from
Russia in 1918
b) restored its independence in 1991
c) entered the EU in 2004

28. What is the name of the cave in Spain famous for its Upper
Paleolithic paintings featuring drawings and rock paintings of
wild mammals and human hands?

29. Match names for parliaments
in our partner countries.
1. Bulgaria
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Latvia
5. Poland
6. Romania
7. Slovakia
8. Spain
9. Turkey
a) Cortes
b) Meclis
c) Parlament
d) Parlamentul
e) Rada
f) Sabor
g) Sabranie
h) Saeima
i) Sejm

30. Geography

31. Danube, one of the longest rivers in Europe, runs
through four partner countries. Select them.
1. Bulgaria
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Latvia
5. Poland
6. Romania
7. Slovakia
8. Spain
9. Turkey

32. How many national parks does Poland have?

33. Which of the following mountains is not located
in Turkey?
b) Mount Hermon
c) Mount Ararat
a) Nemrut Dag

34. Which of these Spanish sites is not on the UNESCO
World Heritage List?
c) Santiago de Compostela
b)
Alhambra
a)
Real Palacio

35. Which mountains run through the center of Romania?

36. Which mountains are
represented on the
Slovakian coat of arms?

37. What is the name
of this Czech town
famous for its spa?

38. How many islands does Croatia have?
a) around 800
b) more than a thousand
c) several thousands

39. Rozova dolina in Bulgaria is famous for cultivating
a) raisins
b) rosemary
c) roses.

40. Latvia's highest point is Gaiziņkalns,
a) 311.6 m
b) 785.1 m
c) 1632.3 m

41. Culture

42. Plitvice NP in Croatia are on UNESCO's
World Heritage List. True or False?

43. Select the only Turkish winner of
the Nobel Prize for Literature.
a) Nâzım Hikmet
b) Orhan Pamuk
c) Nâmık Kemal

44. Where is this cathedral?

45. Which of these is not a famous Czech?
a) Franz Kafka (major fiction writer of the 20th
century who wrote primarily in German)
b) Antonín Dvořák (composer of Romantic music)
c) Gregor Mendel (the father of genetics; he
studied the inheritance of certain traits in pea
plants)
d) All of the above are famous Czechs.

46. Andy Warhol
(1928–1987),
a leading figure in
the 20th century
visual art movement
known as pop art,
is originally from .... ?

47. Eugène Ionesco,
a world famous writer and one of the
foremost figures of the Theatre of the
Absurd, was born in ...?

48. What is the
most famous
Spanish novel
in the world?

49. Which group of languages does Latvian
language belong to?

50. Maria Skłodowska Curie
is a famous scientist from ...

51. a. Black Queen
b. Madara Horseman
c. Baron Trenk
d. Vlad the Impaler
e. El Nuberu
f. Gold of the Baltic Sea
g. the Amazons
h. Riga roosters
i. Juraj Janošik
1. Bulgaria
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Latvia
5. Poland
6. Romania
7. Slovakia
8. Spain
9. Turkey
Match the legends with the partner countries.

53. The choice of the name COMENIUS for this part of the
SOCRATES programme is a reminder of Europe's rich
educational heritage.
Jan Komensky (Ianus Comenius (1592-1670), was born in
what is today the Czech Republic, was a theologian,
philosopher and pedagogue who believed that only through
education could man achieve his full potential and lead a truly
harmonious life. He was one of the founding fathers of modern
education, but, having lived through the period of the Thirty
Years' War (1618-1648), Comenius was also a cosmopolitan
and universalist who strove incessantly for human rights,
peace between the nations, social peace and the unity of
mankind.
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