Q 01/05

On which river does Warsaw stand?

A) Danube

B) Oder

C) Vistula

D) Elbe

Answer · why

C) Vistula

Warsaw stands on the Vistula, Poland's longest river, which divides the city into a higher left bank on the moraine plateau and a lower right bank.

Q 02/05

Warsaw is the capital of which voivodeship?

A) Silesian

B) Lesser Poland

C) Masovian

D) Pomeranian

Answer · why

C) Masovian

Warsaw is the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship, one of the 16 provinces created in the 1999 reform; the city had been the seat of the Dukes of Maso...

Q 03/05

Which king moved the Polish capital from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596?

A) John III Sobieski

B) Stanisław August Poniatowski

C) Sigismund III Vasa

D) Casimir the Great

Answer · why

C) Sigismund III Vasa

Sigismund III Vasa moved the royal court from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596, after a 1595 fire damaged Wawel Castle; Warsaw lay midway between Kraków and V...

Q 04/05

What mythical creature appears on Warsaw's coat of arms?

A) A dragon

B) A mermaid

C) A unicorn

D) A griffin

Answer · why

B) A mermaid

Polish syrenka is a cognate of siren, but she is properly a freshwater mermaid called a melusina.

Q 05/05

Which Warsaw district lies on the east bank of the river?

A) Praga

B) Mokotów

C) Wola

D) Żoliborz

Answer · why

A) Praga

Praga is Warsaw's historic district on the river's east bank, facing the Old Town; it kept much of its pre-war tenement housing because it escaped the...