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
40 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2009. Marie Curie has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. So, the Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 41 times between 1901 and 2009.
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1903 – Marie Curie