1. Which Ukrainian footballer famously advised a recent Russian signing to be wary of ethnic minority criminals in the area close to the Spurs home ground in London?

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

2. Which Ukrainian pop star came within a whisker of Eurovision glory in 2008 with her track ‘Shady Lady’?

a.) Tina Karol
b.) Ani Lorak
c.) Vera Brezhneva
d.) Sofia Rotaru

3. Which British contemporary art legend staged his biggest ever exhibition at Kyiv’s PinchukArtCentre in summer  2009?

a.) Damien Hirst
b.) Banksy
c.) Lucian Freud
d.) Tracey Emin

4. Which Eurocrat quipped in 2002 that Ukraine had as much chance of joining the EU as New Zealand?

a.) Romano Prodi
b.) Jacques Delors
c.) Catherine Ashton
d.) Javier Solana

5. Where in Ukraine is legendary Greek hero Achilles said to have been buried?

a.) Kyiv’s Lavra monastery
b.) Sevastopol
c.) Snake Island
d.) Under Lviv’s Rynok Square

6. The capture of which Ukrainian city in 1941 was lauded by Hitler’s generals as ‘The greatest victory in the history of the world’?

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

7. Until 1962 the city of Ivano-Frankivsk was known by what name?

a.) Stalinberg
b.) Misto Lenina
c.) Tractorgrad
d.) Stanislaviv

8. What was the macabre name given to the annual slave raids of the southern Ukrainian steppe lands carried  out throughout the Middle Ages by the Crimean Tatars?

a.) The taxation of the steppe
b.) The harvesting of the steppe
c.) The ravaging of the Slavs
d.) The raiding of the borderlands

9. What percentage of Ukrainians voted for independence in the 1991 referendum on leaving the Soviet Union?

a.) 75%
b.) 65%
c.) 55%
d.) 90%

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