Belgian Science, Arts and Culture
Belgian Science, Arts, Music and Sport
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- Which Belgian instrument maker invented the saxophone?
- Which Belgian comic hero is a young reporter with a white dog called Snowy?
- Which blue creatures, created by Peyo, live in mushroom houses?
- In which Belgian city is the Manneken Pis statue found?
- Which food is Belgium famous for, made from potatoes and fried twice?
- Which sport is Belgium famous for, with races such as the Tour of Flanders?
- Which Belgian cyclist won the Tour de France five times between 1969 and 1974?
- Which Belgian priest and physicist proposed the idea of an expanding universe and a primeval atom?
- Which Belgian chemist invented Bakelite, an early plastic?
- Which Belgian anatomist, born in Brussels, wrote De humani corporis fabrica in 1543?
- Which Flemish cartographer created the Mercator projection in 1569?
- Which Belgian engineer invented the Gramme machine, a direct current dynamo?
- Which Belgian physicist shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for work linked to the Higgs mechanism?
- Which Belgian won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for work on cell organelles?
- Which Flemish painter completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432?
- Which Belgian painter is best known for surrealist works such as The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe)?
- Which Belgian architect is best known for the Art Nouveau Hôtel Tassel in Brussels?
- Which Belgian built the Atomium for the 1958 world fair?
- Which Belgian chocolatier invented the praline filled chocolate in 1912?
- Which element of Belgian culture was added to UNESCO's intangible heritage list in 2016?
- Which carnival in Hainaut is listed by UNESCO as a masterpiece of intangible heritage, with its Gilles?
- Which Belgian singer wrote the song Ne me quitte pas?
- Which Belgian jazz guitarist, born in Liberchies, founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
- Which Belgian musician is known for the song Papaoutai and for his fusion of electronic music and chanson?
- Which festival in Boom attracts hundreds of thousands of electronic dance music fans?
- Which novelist from Liège wrote the Maigret detective novels?
- Which Belgian city holds the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a former printing house on the World Heritage list?
- Which Belgian football team nickname is used for the national men's team?
- Eddy Merckx won his first Tour de France in 1969 and his fifth in 1974. How many years apart were the first and fifth wins?
- Which statement about Belgian Nobel laureates is correct?
- Which Belgian painter and printmaker lived in Ostend for most of his life?
- The Atomium is a landmark building originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58): how many years later was 2013?
- In which Belgian city was instrument designer Antoine-Joseph Sax born on 6 November 1814?
- Which series of 24 comic albums was created and illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Hergé?
- Which sport did the Belgian players Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin make their names in?
- In which Belgian city are the Magritte Museum and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts?
- The Adventures of Tintin launched in 1929 and The Smurfs became international bestsellers in 1958: how many years later was that?