Do you know what will happen if you shake hands across the threshold of an apartment? Test the strength of your Ukraine knowledge with our monthly pop quiz!

1. According to the 2001 national census, which Ukrainian oblast has the highest percentage ethnic Ukrainian population?

a.) Kharkiv Oblast
b.) Ternopil Oblast
c.) Kyiv Oblast
d.) Lviv Oblast

2. Which Ukrainian football team won the Soviet Cup in 1969?

a.) Dynamo Kyiv
b.) Shakhtar Donetsk
c.) Karpaty Lviv
d.) Metalist Kharkiv

3. Which Ukrainian pop singer was famed for her rivalry with Russian diva Alla Pugacheva in the 1970s and 1980s?

a.) Iryna Bylik
b.) Sofia Rotaru
c.) Taisia Povaliy
d.) Mika Newton

4. Which city was to serve as the capital of Nazi Germany’s planned Ukrainian empire?

a.) Sevastopol
b.) Rivne
c.) Zhytomyr
d.) Odesa

5. Which miner gave his name to a Bolshevik cult of hero workers thanks to his allegedly super human efforts in the mines of Stalin-era Luhansk?

a.) Nikolai Perestroika
b.) Ilya Strafbat
c.) Alexiy Stakhanov
d.) Pavel Morozov

6. The period in Ukrainian history between the death of Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitskiy in 1657 and the beginning of Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s reign in 1687 is known by what name?

a.) The collapse
b.) The deluge
c.) The betrayal
d.) The ruin

7. According to Ukrainian folklore, if somebody sneezes immediately following a statement it means:

a.) The statement was false
b.) The authorities are secret lylistening to the conversation
c.) The statement was true
d.) The author of the statement will soon be rich

8. Which of Ukraine’s rejected Euro 2012 host cities was actually the first in the country to unveil a complete new  stadium in 2008?

a.) Simferopol
b.) Odesa
c.) Kyiv
d.) Dnipropetrovsk

9. Ukrainian heavyweight world champ Vitaliy Klitschko is one of the few boxers never to have been knocked down. Which fighter won a world title bout against him thanks to a gaping cut above the Ukrainian’s left eye?

a.) Mike Tyson
b.) Evander Holyfield
c.) George Foreman
d.) Lennox Lewis

10 When is it considered unlucky for a Ukrainian girl to marry?

a.) On her name day
b.) On her birthday
c.) In a leap year
d.) On her future mother-in-law’s birthday

Answers: 1. b, 2. c, 3. b, 4. b, 5. c, 6. d, 7. c, 8. d, 9. d, 10. c