Which Ukrainian city was the adopted home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s composer son Amadeus Jnr.?

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

2. What was the original name of Donbass super club Shakhtar Donetsk?

a.) Stalino F.C.
b.) Dynamo Donbass F.C.
c.) Stakhanovets F.C.
d.) Slava Lenin F.C.

3. What is the yellow half of the Ukrainian national flag thought to symbolize?

a.) The Black Sea coastline
b.) Ripening fields of wheat
c.) The southern steppe lands
d.) The gold of the Kyivan Rus

4. A new bilateral agreement between Ukraine and Russia will see Russia’s Black Sea Fleet remain in Ukrainian waters until what date?

a.) 2040
b.) 2035
c.) 2032
d.) 2042

5. Which of the ‘Big Three’ allied leaders stayed at Crimea’s Livadia Palace when it hosted talks during the epoch-making January 1945 Yalta Conference?

a.) Stalin
b.) Roosevelt
c.) Churchill
d.) All of them

6. Which British General Officer of the Crimean War later gave his name to a famous garment?

a.) Lord Overcoat
b.) Lord Cardigan
c.) Lord Braceworthy
d.) Lord Stiletto

7. Which of Ukraine’s southern port cities was once administered in the Tsar’s name by a noble emigre refugee who had fled from the French Revolution?

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

8. In what year was slavery abolished in Tsarist-era Ukraine?

a.) 1753
b.) 1799
c.) 1815
d.) 1861

9. How many members of the Soviet Union’s fondly remembered Mexico 1986 World Cup squad were Ukrainian nationals?

a.) Five
b.) Ten
c.) Twelve
d.) Fifteen

10. In which city did the UEFA committee meeting take place in April 2007 which selected Ukraine and  Poland as co-hosts of Euro 2012?

a.) Geneva
b.) Paris
c.) Cardiff
d.) Liverpool

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