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Quiz on Belgium: Test Your Knowledge

This quiz tests your knowledge on various aspects of Belgium, including its demographics, geography, sports, and history. Challenge yourself and learn new facts about this intriguing country!

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1 [68][69] The German-speaking Community is made up of 73,000 people in the east of the ________; around 10,000 German and 60,000 Belgian nationals are speakers of German.

2 The population density of Belgium: How many people are there per square kilometre?

3 Kim Clijsters and ________ both were Player of the Year in the Women's Tennis Association as they were ranked the number one female tennis player.

4 What % of the area of Belgium is water?

5 When was Belgium established?

6 The Spa-Francorchamps motor-racing circuit hosts the Formula One World Championship ________.

7 What are people from Belgium known as?

8 What is the area of Belgium in square km?

9 [114] Both countries previously hosted the ________ in 2000.

10 What time offset in UTC is Belgium in during daylight savings?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium.
  • the Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city.
  • the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium houses European Commission headquarters.
  • the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia (pictured) exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I.
  • the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof.
  • it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952.
  • of over 200 artworks known to have been created by Belgian painter Virginie Bovie, only 7 have been located.
  • since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults.
  • the Gileppe Dam (pictured) was the first dam built in modern Belgium.
  • the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary".
  • the association l'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium.
  • the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts.
  • until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections.
  • the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film.
  • the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium, was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton.
  • the Strépy-Thieu boat lift in Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes.
  • the Temple of Human Passions, first building of Art Nouveau's architect Victor Horta, was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899.
  • in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California.
  • despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944.
  • Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I.
  • Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music.
  • singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt.
  • Belgium's sillon industriel (steelmaking pictured) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe.
  • Belgium's Carnival of Binche (pictured), which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days.
  • Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour.
  • Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market.
  • U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II.
  • Charles Le Gendre (pictured), was born in France, married in Belgium, but died an American general in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emperor of Korea.
  • Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium.
  • a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz.
  • an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government.
  • Martial van Schelle fought as an American soldier in World War I, but was executed as a Belgian citizen during World War II.
  • Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) cemetery in Belgium was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and contains the grave of the playwright Alan Bennett's uncle.
  • Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland.
  • 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.
  • Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler".
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