1) Who is the first pope from Poland?
a) Paul VI
b) John Paul I
c) John Paul II
d) Benedict XIV
2) Which countries annexed Poland in 1939?
a) Austria and Italy
b) Germany and Italy
c) Italy and Turkey
d) Germany and USSR
3) Who was the leader of Solidarity?
a) Lech Walesa
b) Wojciech Jarulzeski
c) Karol Wojtyla
d) Yuri Andropov
2022 – Annie Ernaux
2021 – Abdulrazak Gurnah
2020 – Louise Glück
2019 – Peter Handke
2018 – Olga Tokarczuk
2017 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2016 – Bob Dylan
A total of 61 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 60 women. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows:
18 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize
17 have won the Nobel Prize in Literature
12 have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
8 have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4 have won the Nobel Prize in Physics
2 have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences