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The country
In which country does the city of Prague lie?
Which countries does this country border to?
How is this country called from 1st January 1993?
Who was the president of the country to 1st February 2003?
How is the river which flows by the city of Prague called?
Where does that river spring and where does it finish?
Which other large river does in Czechia (in Krkonose Mountains) spring?
From which two parts does this country consist of?
Which catastrofe did the inhabitants outlive in 2002?
When did the accession to the European Union take place?
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The history
From which time do the first legends descend?
From which century did the first writings come?
Who was Karel IV and what did he mean for the country?
Give the Dutch name for Jan Amos Komensky.
Who was he and what he had done in the Netherlands?
Where is the originally Czech burried in the Netherlands?
Did you ever heard something about Johannes Hus?
Franz Kafka and Prague are inextricable joined to each other, who he was?
Which opera of W.A.Mozart was for the first time performed in Prague and in which theatre?
Why did the so-called "sudeten" have to leave the country after the second world war?
The so-callled "worker president" which in 1948, at the beginning of the communist republic
came forward was really a worker. What was his name and where is he burried?
When and how did start the last revolution? How does one call this revolution?
What was the beginning of this revolution
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The economy
Was the so-called Eastern Bloc country in which now you are always a poor country?
Did the country have just like the Netherlands also colonies?
What are the most important export products?
Say a few of well-known beer marks.
What is kaoline and for what is it used?
What is the average rate of unemployment in the country? And in Prague?
Do there in this country exist social insurances?
Say a few names of large foreign investors.
Who is the new president of the country?
Is the country memeber of the NATO?
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Specific tasks
Alfons Mucha
Bedrich Smetana
Antonin Dvorak
What is the national sport?
On the Charles Brigde you can find a statue, which the tourists always touch. Which statue is that,
what is the tale and why is this picture touched by everyone?
In 1989 there in Prague a student insurrection took place. Why was that actually?
In January 1969 someone burned himself in the middle in the centre of Prague. Who was that and why he did that?
What exactly is The Prague Spring?
Did you ever hear about Charta 77?
Alexander Dubcek, who was he actually?
Who were actually Hussites?
Does Prague miss minimally two splendid Jugendstil projects?
What is the average income of a Czech family, where the father and the mother both work?
Is this sufficient?
Do you think that the average Czechs are satisfied people? If so, why? If not, why not?
Say a few real Czech traditions. What normally do the average people in the weekend?
Would you like to come in contact with Czechs of your age? Do you think that they are intelligent?
Do you know that Czech children on the lower school already get a lot of house work?
Would you like to live in this country? Say one reason for yes, and one for no.
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