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Exploring Dutch: Trivia on Language, Film, and Culture

Test your knowledge with this engaging quiz on the Dutch language, notable film characters from the movie Dutch, poker players, tennis tournaments, and prominent figures in American history and sports.

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1 What role did Lisa Figus play in the movie Dutch?

2 Who played Homeless Woman in the movie Dutch?

3 ________, spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba, and the Netherlands Antilles

4 Who played Gritzi in the movie Dutch?

5 Who played Party Woman in the movie Dutch?

6 ________, professional poker player

7 ________, a defunct tennis tournament

8 ________, 40th President of the United States

9 ________, American collegiate football coach

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656.
  • the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it.
  • when the Nazis began requiring all Jews in the occupied Netherlands to wear the yellow badge, Dutch Christian Casper ten Boom voluntarily wore one also.
  • the Dutch delicacy Croquet is rumored to contain offal.
  • Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas.
  • Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines".
  • Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971.
  • Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth.
  • Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months.
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