Do you know your Verka from your Via Gra?
Test your knowledge of Ukrainian history, society and pop culture with our monthly quiz!

1. Which Italian city state built a walled city in Crimea in the Middle Ages which remains partly intact today?

a.) The Venetians
b.) The Milanese
c.) The Genoese
d.) The Sicilians

2. What was Lviv known as on European maps throughout the Middle Ages?

a.) Levland
b.) Lwow
c.) Lemberg
d.) Leopolis

3. Who is the all-time leading goal scorer of the Ukrainian national football team?

a.) Serhiy Rebrov
b.) Oleh Blokhin
c.) Andriy Shevchenko
d.) Andriy Voronin

4. Which region of Ukraine did Adolf Hitler intend to transform into an all- Germanic holiday paradise for the Third Reich?

a.) The Carpathian mountains
b.) The Danube estuary
c.) The southern steppe lands
d.) Crimea

5. In which year did Ukraine voluntarily give up its vast nuclear arsenal after receiving security guarantees from Britain, Russia and the US?

a.) 1991
b.) 1992
c.) 1994
d.) 1999

6. Which central Ukrainian textiles and mercantile city was once famed for its thriving Jewish population and specific sense of humour?

a.) Vinnytsya
b.) Berdichiv
c.) Zhytomyr
d.) Kovel

7. What is the name of Odesa’s most celebrated promenading avenue?

a.) Pushkinskaya
b.) Fransuskaya
c.) Derebasivskaya
d.) Armenskaya

8. The main port city of Donetsk Oblast is…

a.) Berdyansk
b.) Luhansk
c.) Mariupol
d.) Mykolayev

9. Which football team recently defeated Shakhtar Donetsk to claim the 2009 European Super Cup?

a.) Milan
b.) Liverpool
c.) Barcelona
d.) Manchester United

10. In which month does Lviv celebrate its annual Chocolate Day holiday?

a.) February
b.) March
c.) April
d.) January

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