1. Which Ukrainian city was previously known in Tsarist times as Ekaterinograd?

a.) Odesa
b.) Sevastopol
c.) Dnipropetrovsk
d.) Luhansk

2. In which year were the last remaining Ukrainian dissidents released from the Soviet gulag?

a.) 1955
b.) 1961
c.) 1971
d.) 1987

3. Where in Ukraine were the infamous Potemkin villages thought to have been erected?

a)The coast of Crimea
b.) The Carpathian mountains
c.) The Donbass
d.) The Dnipro riverbanks

4. What was the name of the football team, made up largely of Dynamo Kyiv players, which famously defeated a Nazi Luftwaffe side repeatedly during the Axis occupation of Ukraine during WWII?

a.) Ukraine United
b.) Start F.C.
c.) Red Army F.C.
d.) Kyiv F.C.

5. Which Ukrainian city is home to the Potemkin Steps made famous by film director Sergiy Eisenstein?

a.) Sevastopol
b.) Donetsk
c.) Odesa
d.) Yalta

6. Who said in 2002 that Ukraine had as much chance of joining the EU as New Zealand?

a.) Romano Prodi
b.) Viktor Yanukovych
c.) Tony Blair
d.) Vladimir Putin

7. In which year did Ukraine agree to give up its Soviet-era arsenal of nuclear weapons?

a.) 1991
b.) 1994
c.) 1997
d.) 2005

8. During the heavily falsified 2nd round of voting in the 2004 presidential elections, a polling station in which region officially reported a voter turnout of more than 100%?

a.) Crimea
b.) Kherson
c.) Donetsk
d.) Kharkiv

9. What name did English Prime Minister Winston Churchill give to the war-ravaged but opulent Crimean coastline during his visit for the Yalta Conference in 1945?

a.) The final frontier
b.) Stalin’s soul on display
c.) The Riviera of Hades
d.) Hitler’s holiday home

10. Ukraine is Europe’s largest country and most important transit route. With how many countries does Ukraine share an international border?

a.) 5
b.) 6
c.) 7
d.) 8
 

1. (c); 2. (d); 3. (d); 4. (b); 5. (c); 6. (a); 7. (b); 8. (c); 9. (c); 10. (c)