Romanian Science, Arts and Culture
Romanian Science, Arts and Culture
36 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
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- Which Romanian sculptor is known for the Endless Column and Bird in Space?
- In which city did gymnast Nadia Comăneci score the first perfect ten at the Olympic Games in 1976?
- Which Romanian composer wrote the Romanian Rhapsodies and was also a famous violinist?
- Which traditional Romanian dish is made of cabbage or vine leaves rolled around minced meat and rice?
- Which Romanian dramatist, born in Slatina, was a leading figure of the Theatre of the Absurd and wrote Rhinoceros?
- Which film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 for Romanian director Cristian Mungiu?
- Which writer from the Banat won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, writing about life under dictatorship?
- Which Romanian tradition is celebrated on 1 March, with red and white threads given as a sign of spring?
- Which Romanian scientist received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for work on the structure of the cell?
- Which Romanian engineer is known for the Coandă effect and for work on jet propulsion?
- Which Romanian aviation pioneer made a short powered flight in a self-propelled aircraft in France in 1906?
- Which Transylvanian-born scientist wrote the book The Rocket into Planetary Space (1923)?
- Which Romanian biologist founded the first institute of speleology in the world, in Cluj in 1920?
- Which Dada founder, born in Moinești in Romania, was a poet who worked in Zürich in 1916?
- Which monastery in Oltenia, founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu, is a UNESCO site?
- Which concert hall in Bucharest, with a dome and a frieze about Romanian history, hosts the George Enescu Philharmonic?
- Which Romanian tennis player won the French Open in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019?
- Which footballer, nicknamed the Maradona of the Carpathians, led Romania to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup?
- Which traditional Romanian dance with ritual elements is on the UNESCO intangible heritage list?
- Which village craft, with ceramics decorated with cockerel and spiral motifs, is on the UNESCO list for Romania?
- Which UNESCO site in Romania includes Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains?
- Which painter accompanied the Romanian army in the war of 1877 and painted peasant women and soldiers?
- Which technical idea is associated with the Coandă effect in modern aircraft?
- What is the meaning of Brâncuși's Endless Column in the Târgu Jiu ensemble?
- Why is George Enescu considered a major figure beyond composition?
- What does the term Sămănătorism refer to in Romanian literature around 1900?
- Why is the Danube Delta both a natural and a cultural heritage topic?
- What is the significance of the doina in Romanian folk music?
- How did Aurel Vlaicu contribute to Romanian aviation?
- Why was the work of Racoviță in Cluj important for the study of caves?
- What kind of building is a fortified church in Transylvania?
- Which castle near Brașov is popularly linked with the legend of Dracula?
- What is mămăligă, a staple of Romanian cooking, made from?
- Which Romanian scholar of religions, who taught in Chicago, also wrote the novel Maitreyi?
- Which Romanian city hosts the Transilvania International Film Festival, held every year since 2002?
- Which Romanian historian and politician, a founder of modern Romanian historiography, was killed in 1940?