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Czech Republic: Test Your Knowledge

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Czech Republic, its culture, geography, and political structure. Engage with questions varying from demographics to historical facts.

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1 What religion does Czech Republic adhere to?

2 What is the population of Czech Republic?

3 What are people from Czech Republic known as?

4 Name disputed by Greece; see ________.

5 The ________ is the head of government and wields considerable powers, including the right to set the agenda for most foreign and domestic policy, mobilize the parliamentary majority and choose government ministers.

6 Annual ________ growth has been around 6% until the outbreak of the recent global economic crisis.

7 From 1 January 2009 to 1 July 2009, the Czech Republic held the ________.

8 Provisionally referred to by the Council of Europe as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"; see ________.

9 How many square miles is Czech Republic in area?

10 What is the area of Czech Republic in square km?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Austrian Rieger Orgelbau and Czech Rieger-Kloss are two organ-building firms formed after World War II with origins in a single company.
  • the Czech Republic hosts more than fifty international music competitions in 2009.
  • the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký.
  • in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen.
  • in 1960, excavations uncovered the remains of a medieval fort from the Hussite Wars at the bottom of a lake in Záběhlice, Czech Republic.
  • during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic.
  • in 1901, Dombrau, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria.
  • the Czech actor Bolek Polívka was involved in one of the oddest legal disputes in the history of the Czech Republic.
  • the nature reserve Rejvíz in the Czech Republic is covered with a peat bog including two moss lakes of glacial origin.
  • the plans for renovation of the Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers (pictured) in Olomouc, the Czech Republic had to be stopped due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, which owned the property rights.
  • the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded.
  • the church (pictured) in the Doly district of Karviná, Czech Republic, still holds Masses, despite leaning 6.8° due to extensive coal undermining.
  • the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic.
  • the Hnojník château (pictured), now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945.
  • the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area.
  • businessman Petr Kellner is the wealthiest man in the Czech Republic with an estimated net worth of US$6 billion.
  • ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev was premiered in Mahen Theatre (pictured), Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu, introduced in 1802, is offered by the Czech brewery in Europe as "Budweiser Bier", while in North America, is called "B. B. Bürgerbräu".
  • Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň, Czech Republic.
  • Jablunkov is the easternmost town of the Czech Republic.
  • vibraphonist Karel Velebný is considered one of the founders of modern Czech jazz.
  • Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power.
  • Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games.
  • Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder.
  • Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929.
  • Matthias Dolderer finished second at the 2008 World Aerobatics Cup's "Unlimited" Category in the Czech Republic and in doing so he qualified for the 2009 Red Bull Air Race.
  • Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United States breweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany (pictured).
  • although the Czech Republic village of Blevice has a Jewish cemetery it has no matching community.
  • Campanula gelida, an endemic species of a bellflower, grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic.
  • Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice.
  • Miroslav Tichý is a photographer who took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes and tin cans.
  • Třinec Iron and Steel Works produces more than a third of the steel in the Czech Republic.
  • 26 nations have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon since 2007, and only one country, the Czech Republic, has yet to complete the process.
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