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BRAIN OF UKRAINE!

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Issue 23, April 2010.

 1. Which Ukrainian TV personality caused a Eurovision sensation in 2007 with the lyrics “Russia Goodbye”?

a.) Taisa Povaliy
b.) Ruslana
c.) Verka Serdyuchka
d.) Tina Karol

2. Close to which Ukrainian port town did the famous ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ take place during the 19th century Crimean War?

a.) Odesa
b.) Sevastopol
c.) Balaklava
d.) Yalta

3. Which is the only team other than Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv to have won the Ukrainian Premier League?

a.) Karpaty Lviv
b.) Metalist Kharkiv
c.) Tavria Simferopol
d.) Spartak Moscow

4. Which Ukrainian TV channel gained a reputation for objective new broadcasting during the 2004 presidential election campaign and subsequent Orange Revolution?

a.) 1+1
b.) Inter
c.) Channel Five
d.) ICTV

5. Where in Ukraine are the ancient Amazon female warriors thought to have existed?

a.) The Carpathians
b.) The Azov Sea region
c.) The Donbass
d.) The Crimea

6. Where was Ukrainian nationalist insurgency leader Stepan Bandera assassinated by KGB operatives in the 1950s?

a.) Lviv
b.) Munich
c.) Berlin
d.) Paris

7. A monument to which fruit was erected in Odesa in 2005 in honour of its role in helping boost the city in its formative years?

a.) An orange
b.) An apple
c.) A banana
d.) A pineapple

8. From which Ukrainian oblast did Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev originally come from?

a.) Donetsk Oblast
b.) Kyiv Oblast
c.) Odesa Oblast
d.) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

9. Which Oblast capital is the most southerly of mainland Ukraine?

a.) Kherson
b.) Chernivtsi
c.) Uzhgorod
d.) Odesa

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