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Eight friendly questions about the essentials of Poland. No expert knowledge needed: young or old, everyone can join in and learn something new.
Curious first-timer 0–3 · Market square regular 4–6 · Polish at heart 7–8
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Poland's flag has two equal stripes, white on top and red below, and these two colours have been linked with Poland since the Middle Ages. Indonesia and Monaco use the very same colours the other way round, with the red stripe on top.
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In 2015, playing for Bayern Munich, Lewandowski came off the bench and scored five goals in less than nine minutes, the fastest five goals in the history of the German league. The feat earned him four world-record certificates in one go.
Photo: Sven Mandel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Marie Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in 1867 and later did her research in Paris. She won two Nobel Prizes, one in physics and one in chemistry, and she named the element polonium after her homeland, Poland.
Photo: Henri Manuel, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The doughnuts are called pączki: rich, deep-fried balls of dough, traditionally filled with rose-petal or plum jam. Fat Thursday is the last Thursday before Lent, and Polish communities as far away as Chicago celebrate it too.
Photo: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2.
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Amber is tree resin that hardened over millions of years, and the lands around the Baltic Sea hold the largest known deposits. Sometimes a tiny insect is trapped inside, and in the story of 'Jurassic Park' scientists bring dinosaurs back to life using blood from a mosquito caught in amber.
Photo: Anders L. Damgaard -, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Wieliczka Salt Mine was dug from the 13th century onwards and produced table salt until 1996. Its four underground chapels and many of its statues were carved out of the rock salt by the miners themselves, and in 1978 it was on UNESCO's very first list of World Heritage Sites.
Photo: C messier, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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In one popular version, a clever shoemaker tricked the Wawel Dragon by leaving out a lamb stuffed with sulphur. The Dragon's Cave below Wawel Castle can still be visited, and a metal dragon statue outside it breathes real fire every few minutes.
Photo: Sebastian Münster, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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About a quarter of all the world's white storks breed in Poland, and they spend the winter in Africa. So many nest on electricity poles that platforms have been fitted on top of some poles, to stop the heavy nests from cutting off the power.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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