quiz about slovenia for viribus unitis international meeting

2. a) Republika Slovenija
b) Republika Crna Gora
c) Slovenská Republika
d) The FormerYugoslav Republic of Slovenia
Republika Slovenija was declared independent on 25. June 1991 and was recognized in 1992.

3. a) Ljubljana
b) Zagreb
c) Sofia
d) Bratislava
Ljubljana is the captal and the largest city of our country. Ljubljana has 280, 670 citizens (2012).
Germans call the city Laibach and the Italians call it Lubiana. Its geographical, cultural, scientific,
economic, political and administrative center of Slovenia.

4. a) 2 days
b) 10 years
c) 10 days
d) 5 years
88 % of the Slovenian people voted for independence. A ten day war with Yugoslavia followed.
Sixty-seven people were killed, thirty nine of them were from the Yugoslavian army. After only
ten days they withdrew their troops back to Belgrade.

5. a) A Slovenian beer
b) The Parliament of Slovenia
c) A Slovenian region
d) A valley in the Alps
Dolenjska (eng. Lower Carniola) is a Slovenian region. The capital of the region is Novo Mesto.
Dolenjska is famous for its wine, and its beautiful scenery, dominated by the Alps, and the Krka
river.

6. a) Nove Zamky
b) Velenje
c) Kranj
d) Novo Mesto
Nove Zamky is a Slovak city. Kranj is the capital of the region Gorenjska, and, with a population
of 54.225 the fourth largest city in Slovenia. Velenje was called Titovo Velenje from 1981 to 1991
after the former president Tito of Yugoslavia. Novo Mesto means ‘New Town’. It was founded
in 1365 and was then called Rudolfswert (or in Slovene Rudolfovo) after the Habsburg Archduke
Rudolf IV of Austria.

7. a) True
b) False
Slovenia does have a short length of coastline It is 43 km long and it is one of the shortest
coastlines in Europe. That means that each citizen of Slovenia is the ‘owner’ of only 2
centimeters of the coastline.

8. a) 2
b) 4
c) 5
d) 3
Slovenia borders to 4 countries. Italy, Austria, Croatia and Hungary.

9. a) white, blue, red
b) red, green and blue
c) black, red and yellow
d) green and red and blue
It has three horizontal lines of white, blue and red. Near the top left corner is the coat of arms
which consists of the highest peak, Triglav, in white with 3 yellow stars, and beneath there are
two wavy lines representing the rivers and sea.

10. a) Hej Slowianie
b) Hej Slovani
c) Zdravljica
d) Hej Sloveni
Zdravljica was adopted as the Slovenian anthem in 1989. It’s been written by France Prešeren
and the melody by Stanko Premrl.

11. a) Slovenian Kuna
b) Slovenian Korona
c) Euro
d) Slovenian Dinar
Slovenia became a member of the EU in 2004, and adopted their new currency in 2007. Prior to
that the currency was the Tolar.

12. a) 250-600
b) 600-850
c) 850-1000
d) More than 1000
There are exactly 606 students who study in the programs for MultimediaTechnician, GraphicTechnician
and Graphic Operator.

13. a) 2nd Gymnazium of Ljubljana
b) Institute and Academy for Multimedia
c) Multimedia and GraphicTechnology Secondary
School Ljubljana
d) Secondary School for Photography and Design
Multimedia and GraphicTechnology Secondary School Ljubljana. Its original name is: Srednja
medijska in grafična šola Ljubljana and it has had its name for the last 7 years. Before that it was
known asThe Secondary School for Printing and PapermakingTechnology.

14. a) True
b) False
True - TheTV and FILM studio with the state-of-the-art recording video and sound equipement was
opened four years ago and since then our students have produced numerous videos, animations
and a full length feature film »Simpatija« with our students and teachers as actors.The film
»Simpatija« was ranked 3rd by the audience at Slovenian Film Festival 2012.

15. a) ... our Headmaster?
b) ... our fastest teacher?
c) ... the model of our school's printing machine?
d) ... ourViribus Unitis project coordinator?
HEIDELBERG Speedmaster is 4 colour printing machine that is used to train the students to work in
printing workshops. It uses 4 colours or inks: CYAN, MAGENTA,YELLOW and BLACK to create
multicolor copies of printed sheets which are printed at the speed of 15,000 copies per hour.

16. a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Only black and white
Four. There are three colors MAGENTA, GREEN and CYAN which represent the colours that are
combined to reproduce the picture on computer and video screens. The tip of the pencil is BLACK.