1. The statue of which Soviet communist party leader was recently removed from Kyiv’s European Square?

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

2. Which Ukrainian city is affectionately known by local residents as ‘Mama’?

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

3. Which country successfully annexed Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Oblast immediately prior to the outbreak of WWII?

a.) Romania
b.) Hungary
c.) Slovakia
d.) Poland

4. Ukrainian pop bard and national treasure Oleh Skrypka hails from which city?

a.) Donetsk
b.) Luhansk
c.) Zaporozhya
d.) Poltava

5. With which English Premier League side did Dynamo Kyiv legend Oleh ‘The Horse’ Luzhniy end his career?

a.) Arsenal
b.) Spurs
c.) Everton
d.) Wolverhampton Wanderers

6. What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s Vinnitsya Oblast HQ, used by the German dictator throughout the fateful summer and autumn of 1942 as he directed the assault on Stalingrad and the race for the oilfields of the
Caucasus?

a.) Wolf’s Lair
b.) Eagle’s Perch
c.) Werwolf
d.) Wolf’s Den

7. Which British cavalry regiment’s epic but futile charge during the Crimean War was immortalized in a poem by Lord Tennyson?

a.) The Heavy Brigade
b.) The Bengali Lancers
c.) The Gwalior Contingent
d.) The Light Brigade

8. Which modern-day Ukrainian city was once infamous as the Ottoman slave-trading port of Kaffa?

a.) Mariupol
b.) Sevastopol
c.) Odesa
d.) Fyodosia

9. Who is regarded as the primary author of Ukraine’s modern-day western border with Poland?

a.) Yeltsin
b.) Lenin
c.) Tsar Nicholas II
d.) Lord George Curzon

10. Nineteenth century Lviv author and founding father of masochism Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is most famous for which novel?

a.) Lust in Lemberg
b.) The Leopolis Lovers
c.) Venus in Furs
d.) Fur Coats and Leather Belts: A Guide to Alternative Uses

ANSWERS
1. d 2. b 3. b 4. d 5. d 6. c 7. d 8. d 9. d. 10. c