1. What name did Russian Empress Catherine the Great give to her newly conquered Black Sea steppe lands (today’s southern Ukraine) in the 1790s?

a.) New Byzantium
b.) The Third Roman Empire
c.) New Russia
d.) Little Russia

2. How many international borders does Ukraine share with EU member states?

a.) two
b.) four
c.) five
d.) none

3. Which Ukrainian city is reputedly the longest inland metropolis in the world?

a.) Kharkiv
b.) Berdychiv
c.) Dnipropetrovsk
d.) Kriviy Rih

4. Which Dynamo Kyiv midfielder married a member of the country’s hottest girl band Via Gra and enjoyed  a brief period as half of Ukraine’s version of Posh and Becks?

a.) Andriy Husin
b.) Valentin Belkevich
c.) Sergiy Rebrov
d.) Oleh Blokhin

5. Which famous Ukrainian showbiz beauty played the role of Roksolana in the popular 1990s TV period drama about the medieval Ukrainian slave girl who married the Ottoman Sultan?

a.) Iryna Bilyk
b.) Olga Sumska
c.) Ani Lorak
d.) Ruslana

6. Which Ukrainian city along with Dnipropetrovsk was ruled out of hosting Euro 2012 games in mid-2009 despite initially making it onto the reserve list?

a.) Sevastopol
b.) Odesa
c.) Poltava
d.) Simferopol

7. A monument to which fruit was erected in Odesa in 2005 to commemorate the role it is said to have played in bolstered the finances of the city in its early days?

a.) Apple
b.) Orange
c.) Pear
d.) Banana

8. Which Ukrainian city was known as Yelizavetgrad in honour of Russian Empress Yelizaveta Petrovna before later experiencing a series of highly political name changes during the purges and terror which followed the 1917  Russian Revolution?

a.) Odesa
b.) Kharkiv
c.) Kirovograd
d.) Donetsk

9. Legendary Soviet literary personage and cinematic comedy character Ostap Bender is most closely associated with which Ukrainian city?

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

10 The communist party’s regional headquarters in which Ukrainian city recently erected a new monument to   Soviet dictator Josef Stalin?

a.) Zaporizhia
b.) Luhansk
c.) Donetsk
d.) Odesa

Answers:
1.) c 2.) b 3.) d 4.)b 5.) b 6.) b 7.) b 8.) c9.) d 10.) a