BRAIN OF UKRAINE!
- In which Ukrainian city did French author Balzac marry his Ukrainian sweetheart?
a) Odesa
b) Berdychiv
c) Kyiv
d) Sevastopol
- In which Ukrainian resort was Mikhail Gorbachev staying when the fateful KGB coup of August 1991 got underway?
a) Berdyansk
b) Odesa
c) Yevpatoria
d) Foros
- Which city was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine?
a) Kyiv
b) Donetsk
c) Kharkiv
d) Lviv
- Which Ukrainian oblast has the largest population?
a) Kyiv Oblast
b) Lviv Oblast
c) Donetsk Oblast
d) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Where in Ukraine would you find the legendary “Racecourse of Achilles”?
a) Southern Crimea
b) The Azov Sea
c) Off the Kherson Oblast coastline
d) Luhansk
6. Which two Ukrainian cities were classified as “Closed Cities” with no visitors permitted during the Soviet era?
a) Kyiv and Sevastopol
b) Kharkiv and Yalta
c) Dnipropetrovsk and Sevastopol
d) Lviv and Ternopil
7. Over which island in the Kerch Straits did Ukraine become embroiled in a territorial spat in 2003?
a) Serpent’s Island
b) Ostrov Kuchma
c) Tuzla Island
d) The East Crimean Isles
8. On which Ukrainian holiday are girls thought to be able to determine the identity of their one true love?
a) International Women’s Day
b) Ivana Kupala
c) Old New Year
d) All Saints’ Day
9. In which Ukrainian opera house was Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin assassinated in September 1911?
a) Lviv Opera House
b) Odesa Opera House
c) Kyiv Opera House
d) Kharkiv Opera House
10. Who was Ukraine’s first ever Eurovision entrant in 2003?
a) Oleksandr Ponomaryov
b) Ruslana
c) Via Gra
d) Iryna Bilyk
11. In which year did Andriy Shevchenko and Sergiy Rebrov take Dynamo Kyiv to within one goal of the Champions League final?
a) 1999
b) 1998
c) 1997
d) 2000
12. Where in Ukraine is the only street named after Chechen leader General Dudayev?
a) Cherkassy
b) Kyiv
c) Donetsk
d) Lviv
13. Which Ukrainian city was home to the great stronghold of the Dnipro Cossacks?
a) Zaporyzhya
b) Dnipropetrovsk
c) Cherkassy
d) Kherson
14. Where is national bard Taras Shevchenko buried?
a) Kyiv
b) Cherkassy
c) Ivano-Frankivsk
d) Kaniv
15. What is the name of the annual Ukrainian house music festival in Crimea famed for its sex, drugs and post-Soviet hedonism?
a) The Crimean Republic
b) Kozantyp
c) Kazanist
d) Machine Vremenya
16. In which year did the authorities remove the Soviet Hammer and Sickle sign above Kyiv’s Independence Square?
a) 1995
b) 1991
c) 1989
d) 2003
1.(b); 2.(d); 3.(c); 4.(c); 5.(c); 6.(c); 7.(c); 8.(b); 9.(c); 10.(a); 11.(a); 12.(d); 13.(a); 14.(d); 15.(b); 16.(d).
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