1. The prospects for Ukraine’s Euro 2012 candidate host cities remain uncertain, but which two Ukrainian cities have already been counted out of the running to host matches?

a.) Sevastopol and Odesa
b.) Donetsk and Odesa
c.) Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv
d.) Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa

2. On New Year’s Day of which year did Russia famously cut off Ukraine’s gas supply for the first time?

a.) 2004
b.) 2005
c.) 2006
d.) 2007

3. What is the name given in Ukrainian history to the period of debilitating in-fighting and Russian encroachment which followed the death of seventeenth century Ukrainian Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnitskiy?

a.) The Deluge
b.) The Ruin
c.) The Dark Age
d.) The Betrayal

4. In which city did Shakhtar Donetsk recently win the last ever final of the now defunct UEFA Cup?

a.) Munich
b.) Rome
c.) Moscow
d.) Istanbul

5. Which is Ukraine’s second largest city?

a.) Donetsk
b.) Lviv
c.) Odesa
d.) Kharkiv

6. The founder of modern-dayDonetsk was…

a.) A Bolshevik revolutionary
b.) A Decembrist exile
c.) A Tsarist officer
d.) A Welsh industrialist

7. Which Crimean port town served as one of the biggest slave markets in Europe during the rule of the Ottoman Empire?

a.) Yalta
b.) Sevastopol
c.) Feodosia
d.) Sudak

8. Which US President warned Ukrainians against ‘suicidal nationalism’ during a notorious 1991 speech in Kyiv?

a.) Ronald Reagan
b.) Bill Clinton
c.) George Bush Snr.
d.) George W. Bush

9. Which Soviet figure did Donetsk regional utilities bosses attempt to employ in a 2007 advertising campaign designed to intimidate local residents into paying unpaid household bills?

a.) Stalin
b.) Lenin
c.) Pavlik Morozov
d.) Brezhnev

10. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was banned from Ukraine in May 2008 for claiming what?

a.) That Sevastopol had not been included when Crimea was handed over to Ukraine in 1954
b.) That Crimea was holy Russian soil
c.) That Sevastopol should become an administrative district of Moscow
d.) That Ukraine should cede the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s bases Permanently

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