European Great Figures
Online game for students to learn about European Great Figures
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He was Bulgarian revolutionary and national hero. For his active fight against Ottoman rule was hanged by the Turkish.
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Vasil Levski
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Boris -Michael I
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Antonio Pacinotti
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She is perhaps best known for her defense of the Second Spanish Republic and with the famous slogan "They shall not pass"-No pasarán! Who is she?
- A.
Amalia Rodriges
- B.
Dolores Ibarruri
- C.
Cosimo de Medici
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Who is considered the father of modern education ?
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Charles Dickens
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John Amos Comenius
- C.
Alvaro Siza
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What is the name of the girl who saved Pisa from the saracens?
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Lydia Koidula
- B.
Bozena Nemcova
- C.
Kinzica de Sismondi
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After the Bulgarian army crushed the Arabs during the Siege of Constantinopole (718) He was called by contemporaries the Saviour of Europe. Who is he ?
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Karl Ernst von Baer
- B.
Khan Tervel
- C.
Giordano BRuno
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Who is the best actor and film maker of the silent era?
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Charlie Chaplin
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Dimitar Peshev
- C.
Federico Garsia LOrca
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Who is the creator of the evolutionary theory?
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Darvin
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Who is that ruler who is famous with the Baptism of the Bulgarians and the development of the Slavic language?
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Boris- Michael I
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Simeon I of Bulgaria
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Who is the founder of modern nursing ?
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Bozena Nemcova
- B.
Amalia Rodrigues
- C.
Florence Nightingale
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Who is that Spanish woman fighter for women's rights ?
- A.
Clara Campoamor
- B.
Florence Nightingale
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He is Italian and invented an improved form of dinamo.Who is he?
- A.
Alvaro Siza
- B.
Antonio Pachinotti
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He is Portuguese and first crossed the South Atlantic by air. Who is he?
- A.
Charlie Chaplin
- B.
Gago Coutinho
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What ia the name of the Portuguese architect with Pritzker Prize?
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Alvaro Siza
- B.
Giordano BRuno
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Who is that singer who popularized Fado music to the entire world?
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Antonio Egas Moniz
- B.
Amalia Rodrigues
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Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director.He was executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. Who is he?
- A.
Federico Garcia Lorca
- B.
Pablo Picasso
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He rebelled against the pro -Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews. Who is he?
- A.
Lennart Meri
- B.
Dimitar Peshev
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Who developed the cerebral angiography?
- A.
Antonio Egas Moniz
- B.
Gago Coutinho
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She is Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement. Her image features on the 500 CZK denomination of the banknotes of the Czech koruna. Who is she?
- A.
Lydia Koidula
- B.
Bozena Nemcova
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Who was burned alive for his Beliefs of the Universe?
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Giordano Bruno
- B.
Konstantin Pats
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Who is the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey?
- A.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- B.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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He was Czech priest, pholosofer, reformer burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church.Who is he?
- A.
Jan HUs
- B.
Hristo Botev
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- 22.
Who developed Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents and searched new routes?
- A.
Infante Dom Henrique the Navigator
- B.
Gago Coutinho
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- 23.
Who was the first president of Estonia?
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Leos Janacek
- B.
Konstantin Pats
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Who is that Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and co-founder of the Cubist movement ?
- A.
Jaan Poska
- B.
Pablo Picasso
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Who is that Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, who created an original, modern musical style?
- A.
Leos Janacek
- B.
Gago Coutinho
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