What do you know about our king Willem-Alexander?

Elmer Smaling

Gepubliceerd op: 24 April 2018

Quiz

This Friday, King Willem-Alexander celebrates his 51st birthday. Three days later, there will be another anniversary: he will be on the throne for exactly five years. In this quiz you can test your knowledge about Willem-Alexander in ten questions.

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Willem-Alexander is not exactly the first Dutch king named Willem. How many King Willem’s went before him?(Required)

2 Willems

3 Willems

5 Willems

8 Willems

In his early life, Willem-Alexander earned a not so flattering nickname. What was it?(Required)

Prins Patat (Prince French Fries)

Prins Pils (Prince Pint)

Prins Pasta (Prince Pasta)

Prins Peuk (Prince Cigarette Butt)

What did Willem-Alexander study?(Required)

Law at the Free University in Amsterdam

Tourism and Leisure at Scheidegger

History in Leiden

Agrotechnology in Wageningen

Willem-Alexander went to study in Leiden, but he did not really want to. Why not?(Required)

He did not want to talk as elitist as his mother

In a small town like Leiden, a prince would stand out too much

The nightlife in Amsterdam attracted him more

He wanted to study agrotechnology, and that is not possible in Leiden.

The neighbourhood Alexanderpolder in Rotterdam is NOT named after our current king, but after an earlier Prince Alexander from the Orange family, born in 1851. Who was this Alexander a son?(Required)

King Willem III

Willem the Silent

Queen Wilhelmina

Queen Juliana

Willem-Alexander and Maxima have three daughters. What is the correct order of the girls, from old to young?(Required)

Alexia – Amalia – Ariane

Ariane – Alexia – Amalia

Amalia – Alexia – Ariane

Amalia – Ariane – Alexia

The remark ‘Hij is een beetje dom’ (‘He is a little stupid’) by Princess Máxima in 2001 has become very famous in the Netherlands. But why did she say this about Willem-Alexander?(Required)

He had written a letter in which he defended the dictatorial regime of Videla in Argentina

He denied that opponents of the regime were thrown out of the plane in Argentina

He was glad that not the Netherlands but Argentina football team became world champions in 1978.

He criticized a book, basing his criticism on a letter from the Argentinian dictator Videla

In 2007 Willem-Alexander commissioned the construction of at least two holiday homes on a peninsula of a very poor African country. This led to a lot of criticism in, among others, the Dutch House of Parliament. Willem-Alexander therefore decided later to sell the houses again. In which African country did he buy his holiday homes?(Required)

Southern Sudan

Mozambique

Northern Sudan

Zimbabwe

After the holiday homes scandal in Africa, Willem-Alexander bought a new holiday home in the Greek village of Kranidi. Who is one of his neighbours?(Required)

Donald Trump

Jorge Zorreguieta

Vladimir Putin

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