1.  Answer the following questions about the Netherlands:
a)  Name the capital.
b)  Where is it located?  List the countries that border the Netherlands.
c)  What is the population?
d)  What is the religious breakdown of the country?
e)  What is the name used for the people and the language of the Netherlands?
f)  What is the difference between the Netherlands and Holland?

2.  a) Define abdicate.
b)  Why is Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicating the throne?

3.  What is historic about Prince Willem becoming King?

4.  How was the controversy over the lack of transparency of the Queen's role in the formation of governments solved this year?

5.  Do you think the constitutional monarchy form of government (where the monarch holds a ceremonial position) is an outdated system/ should be considered obsolete?  Does a monarch benefit his/her country in any way?  Explain your answer.

CHALLENGE QUESTION:  Name the famous Dutch Christian woman who went to a Nazi concentration camp (along with her sister) for working with the Underground, and also hiding Jewish people in her own home during WWII.  What is the title of her biography?