1. Which classic of world cinema features Odesa’s Potemkin Steps as a backdrop in its most famous scene?

a.) Rocky II
b.) Battleship Potemkin
c.) The Odessa File
d.) The Boys from Brazil

2. What was the name of the Ukrainian Hetman’s capital city which was razed to the ground by Russian Emperor Peter I’s invading army in 1708?

a.) Kolesy
b.) Baturyn
c.) Lodsk
d.) Khmelnitskiy

3. Which Ukrainian oblast capital is closest to the Russian border?

a.) Donetsk
b.) Sumy
c.) Simferopol
d.) Luhansk

4. Which Ukrainian city famed for its humour holds an annual ‘Yumorina’ comedy carnival every April 1?

a.) Sevastopol
b.) Kyiv
c.) Lviv
d.) Odesa

5. Donetsk spent much of the communist era renamed in honour of which Soviet leader?

a.) Lenin
b.) Stalin
c.) Trotsky
d.) Beria

6. In which present-day Ukrainian oblast was legendary Polish monarch King Jan III Sobieski born?

a.) Kyiv Oblast
b.) Odesa Oblast
c.) Lviv Oblast
d.) Rivno Oblast

7. Which Ukrainian politician once famously claimed to be a qualified ‘proffessor’ on their application form  to run for the country’s presidency?

a.) Yulia Tymoshenko
b.) Viktor Yanukovych
c.) Petro Symonenko
d.) Arseniy Yatsenyuk

8. What is the name of the waterdwelling supernatural seductresses which in Ukrainian folklore are said to  tease and tempt Ukrainian men to their deaths in the country’s lakes and rivers?

a.) Sladki
b.) Mussinki
c.) Ivanushki
d.) Mavki

9. Which Ukrainian Oblast has the longest stretch of coastline?

a.) Odesa Oblast
b.) Donetsk Oblast
c.) Kherson Oblast
d.) Crimean Autonomous Republic

10. Which national did Ukraine defeat in the final of the 2009 Under-19 European Championships this August?

a.) Spain
b.) Serbia
c.) England
d.) Germany

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