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Exploring the Netherlands: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge of the Netherlands, covering historical, cultural, and governmental aspects of the country. Challenge yourself and learn more about this fascinating nation.

#Netherlands #Geography #History #Culture #Government

1 The Congress of Vienna gave Luxembourg to William as personal property in exchange for his German possessions, Nassau-Dillenburg, Siegen, ________, and Diez.

2 What is the native name for Netherlands?

3 Which of the following titles did Netherlands have?

4 What is the capital of Netherlands?

5 [35] On the ________ Netherlands is the 13th most free market capitalist economy out of 157 surveyed countries.

6 The pace of job growth reached 10-year highs in 2007. The Netherlands moved up from the 11th position in the ________ [38] to the 9th position in 2007.

7 Which of the following is an officially recognised ethnic group in Netherlands?

8 The Kingdom as such, continued the war from the colonial empire; the government in exile resided in ________.

9 What does the following picture show?  The Delta Works are located in the provinces of South Holland and Zeeland.   William the Silent, leader of the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt.   Dutch Batavia built in what is now Jakarta, by Andries Beeckman c. 1656.   The Netherlands introduced the euro in 1999. It is one of the 16 sovereign states that make up the Eurozone.

10 What type of government does Netherlands have?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989.
  • the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war.
  • newspaper illustrator Salo Grenning became an honorary citizen of Middelburg, Netherlands, after helping liberate the city from Germany in 1944.
  • the Dutch ocean liner Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft caught fire before entering service, in service, and on her way to the scrapyard.
  • the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions.
  • the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles have eight properties of cultural and natural heritage (Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout pictured) listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
  • the Dutch naval Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution.
  • in their final mission of World War II, No. 453 Squadron RAAF escorted the aircraft that returned Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands after she spent three years in exile in Britain.
  • in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract.
  • had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did.
  • for his part in the Bangladesh Liberation War, Dutch Australian commando officer William Ouderland is the only foreign recipient of Bir Pratik, Bangladesh's fourth highest gallantry award.
  • descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in Leiden, the Netherlands, include four U.S. presidents.
  • in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and founded the rival Red Communist Party, in protest of the PKI leadership's willingness to negotiate with the Dutch.
  • in 2001, Dutch musician and artist Herman Brood committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.
  • in Fort Geldria in South India there is a well-preserved Dutch cemetery, with tombstones carved in the Netherlands, cared for by the Archeological Survey of India.
  • in 1930, the footballer Gerard Keizer played for both Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands to play in matches.
  • the Netherlands' proposal in 1913 for nine dreadnoughts was part of a Æ’595,000,000 rearmament plan.
  • the spinnenkopmolen Arkens, Franeker, is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails).
  • the first Filipinos to settle in the Netherlands arrived in 1947.
  • the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam, today the Netherlands' second largest port, date back to the 13th century.
  • the builder of the Rispenserpoldermolen, Easterein, the Netherlands, was described as a better millwright than a poet.
  • the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today.
  • though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina.
  • unlike most other forms of bacon, Zeeuws spek ("Zeeland bacon") from the Netherlands is sold pre-cooked.
  • two windmills in Burdaard, the Netherlands, are named after the elephant and the swallow, and that both mills are Rijksmonuments.
  • the Dutch government created the Museum Maluku (pictured) in Utrecht as a gift to the Moluccan community in the Netherlands.
  • the Buis (pictured) was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands, after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea.
  • the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies, that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation.
  • the Fabyan Windmill (pictured) located in Geneva, Illinois is one of the authentic Dutch windmills in the U.S..
  • the Israeli mafia have extended their activities to foreign countries like the United States, South Africa, and the Netherlands.
  • the Rijksmonument designation has been applied to about 55,000 sites in the Netherlands.
  • the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands.
  • the Brabants Dagblad, a regional Dutch newspaper, was founded in 1771 and is one of the oldest papers in the country.
  • the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors.
  • art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp.
  • a windmill has stood on the site in Aalden, Netherlands, now occupied by the Jantina Hellingmolen (pictured), since 1652.
  • Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director.
  • Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup.
  • Dutch topologist Johannes De Groot is the academic grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of his namesake via four different paths of academic supervision.
  • Dutch football manager Clemens Westerhof is credited with turning the Nigerian national team into a perennial powerhouse in African football, having guided them to victory in the 1992 African Cup of Nations as well as their first FIFA World Cup participation in 1994.
  • Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg.
  • South African Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia.
  • Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam.
  • Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times.
  • two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands.
  • jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz.
  • Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent, is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin.
  • landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands.
  • Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible".
  • Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died.
  • Dutch admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1655) kept Maarten Tromp's standard raised to maintain morale after the latter died in the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653.
  • Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company.
  • Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients.
  • Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands, since the 15th century.
  • Viktor Kaisiepo, a Netherlands New Guinean-born advocate of self-determination for West Papua, lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands.
  • TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed, the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world.
  • Cryptosporidium hominis, an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal-contaminated drinking water, is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn.
  • De Hoop and Zeldenrust are two windmills in Dokkum, the Netherlands that are fitted with a pair of Common sails and a pair of Ten Have sails.
  • Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway, which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland, Netherlands, closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening.
  • Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625.
  • Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands.
  • Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting.
  • De Hoop (pictured), located in Norg, Drenthe, is the only windmill in the Netherlands still equipped with Bilau sails.
  • De Eendracht, a smock mill in Anjum, Netherlands, is used as a tourist information office as well as being a working mill.
  • De Sweachmermolen in Langweer, the Netherlands, is the only combined drainage and corn mill in Friesland.
  • Gerbrand Bakker played a tape recording of 1994 Dutch Eurovision entry "Waar is de zon?" as he was given the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Twin.
  • Hasan Nuhanović is a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide who is suing the Dutch state for its failure to protect his family from being killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.
  • goose pulling (pictured) was a popular blood sport practiced in Belgium, England, the Netherlands and the United States that involved a man on horseback galloping past a live goose and pulling its head off.
  • arson was suspected when the last original boô (pictured), a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands.
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