1. When did Valeriy Lobanovskiy return to the helm at Dynamo Kyiv following his brief stint of managing in the Middle East?

a.) 1995
b.) 1996
c.) 1997
d.) 1998

2. Which town in the Ukrainian Cossack heartlands serves as the location for Gogol’s ‘Evenings on a farm near…’ collection of short stories?

a.) Poltava
b.) Kaniv
c.) Dykanka
d.) Sumy

3. Which mega star was hired as the headline performer at the August 2009 grand opening of the Donbass Arena?

a.) Elton John
b.) J-Lo
c.) Alla Pugacheva
d.) Beyonce

4. By what name was Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula known in ancient Greek and Roman times?

a.) Kaffa
b.) Taurica
c.) Barbaria
d.) Amazonia

5. What is the name of the notorious gangster who stars in Isaak Babel’s “The Odessa Tales”?

a.) Misha Moldovanka
b.) Rostov Papa
c.) Dyed Deribasovska
d.) Benya Krik

6. Until 1921 what was the name of the Ukrainian city now known as Zaporizhia?

a.) Stalinivets
b.) Nicholayevsk
c.) Aleksandrovsk
d.) Perm

7. Since makingits debut in 2003, how many times has Ukraine finished in secondplace at the Eurovision Song Contest?

a.) Once
b.) Twice
c.) Three times
d.) Never

8. Who lost his throne to the expanding Russian empire in 1783, thereby making him the last ever Khan of the Crimean Tatars?

a.) Arslan Giray
b.) Devlet VI Giray
c.) Sahin Giray
d.) Nur Devlet

9. Which Ukrainian city successfully hosted the UEFA European U19 Championships in summer 2009?

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

10. Which Kyiv metro station is reputedly the deepest in the entire world?

a.) Maidan
b.) Universitetska
c.) Arsenalna
d.) Pechersk

Answers: 1.) c 2.) c 3.) d 4.) b 5.) d 6.) c7.) b 8.) c 9.) b 10.) c