Czech Science, Arts and Culture
Czech Science, Arts and Culture
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- Which Czech composer wrote the Symphony No. 9 'From the New World', first performed in New York in 1893?
- Which river is portrayed in the best-known part of Smetana's Má vlast?
- Which Czech artist became famous for Art Nouveau posters and the cycle of paintings called the Slav Epic?
- Which scientist from Brno discovered the basic rules of heredity by crossing pea plants?
- Which runner won the 5000 m, the 10000 m and the marathon at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki?
- Which small animated character, created by Zdeněk Miler, is known around the world as the Little Mole?
- What is the traditional main dish of the Czech Christmas dinner on 24 December?
- What is the Prague Orloj?
- Which Moravian composer wrote the opera Jenůfa and the Sinfonietta?
- Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for the invention of polarography?
- Which Czech chemist invented the soft contact lens in the 1950s?
- Which Czech priest and natural scientist built a lightning rod in 1754 in Moravia, one of the first in Europe?
- Which Czech inventor patented a ship propeller in 1827?
- Which Czech physician identified four human blood groups in 1907?
- In which Moravian town was Sigmund Freud born in 1856?
- Which Czech-born director won Academy Awards for Best Director for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus?
- How many times did Martina Navrátilová win the singles title at Wimbledon?
- In which year did the Czech ice hockey team win the Olympic gold medal in Nagano?
- Which Czechoslovak gymnast won four gold medals at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City?
- Which theatre in Prague opened in 1881, burned down, and was rebuilt through national donations by 1883?
- Which annual music festival opens in Prague on 12 May, the anniversary of Smetana's death, with Má vlast?
- Which Czech artist drew the illustrations of the novel The Good Soldier Švejk?
- What is the Czech Easter tradition called pomlázka?
- Which Czech composer wrote the opera The Bartered Bride?
- Which Czech film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997?
- Which pair of puppet characters, a father and his son, was created by Josef Skupa in the 1920s and became famous in Plzeň?
- Which South Bohemian city gives its German name, Budweis, to a famous beer brand?
- Which Czech tennis player won the Wimbledon singles title in 2011 and again in 2014?
- Construction of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague began in 1344 under Charles IV and was completed in 1929. About how many years did it take?
- Which list orders the composers by their birth year, earliest first?
- Which pairing of a Czech Nobel laureate and a prize is correct?
- Antonín Dvořák was born on 8 September 1841 and died on 1 May 1904. How old was he when he died?
- Which pairing of an inventor and an invention is correct?
- Alphonse Mucha worked on the Slav Epic from 1912 to 1926, a cycle of twenty large canvases. About how many years did the work take?
- Which statement about Gregor Mendel is correct?
- Smetana's cycle Má vlast has six symphonic poems, and Vltava is the second. How many poems follow Vltava?