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
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy.
2010 – Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 – Herta Müller
2008 – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007 – Doris Lessing
2006 – Orhan Pamuk
2005 – Harold Pinter
2004 – Elfriede Jelinek
2003 – John M. Coetzee
2002 – Imre Kertész
2001 – Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000 – Gao Xingjian
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