1. In which city did Ukrainian national  bard Taras Shevchenko study?

 

a.) Kyiv

b.) Odesa

c.) St. Petersburg

d.) Paris

 

 

2. In which newspaper did Pulitzer  Prize winning Moscow correspondent  of the 1930s Walter Duranty publish  his denials of the Ukrainian Holodomor  terror famine?

 

a.) Pravda

b.) The Manchester Guardian

c.) The New York Times

d.) The Washington Post

 

 

3. Who holds the record as the  longest-serving member of Ukrainian  all-girl pop group Via Gra?

 

a) Vera Brezhneva

b) Alyona Vinitskaya

c) Nadya Granovskaya

d) Anya Sedokova

 

 

4. In December 2007 which Ukrainian  oblast had the country’s lowest average  salary level?

 

a.) Donetsk Oblast

b.) Autonomous Crimean Republic

c.) Ternopil Oblast

d.) Trans-Carpathian Oblast

 

5. In which Ukrainian city did Hitler  establish his “Werewolf” advance  HQ during WWII?

 

a.) Kyiv

b.) Zhytomir

c.) Vinnytsia

d.) Kharkiv

 

 

6. Which Ukrainian writer wrote  “Dead Souls”, the celebrated 19th  century account of corrupt bureaucracy  in the Russian Empire?

 

a.) Ivan Franko

b.) Lesya Ukrainka

c.)Nikolai Gogol

d.) Markian Gregoryvych

 

 

7. In which season where Dynamo Kyiv banned from European  competition following a bribery  scandal in which referees and  match officials claimed to have  been offered fur coats and large  sums of money to fix a Champions  League tie?

 

a.) 1997-98

b.) 1993-94

c.) 2001-02

d.) 1995-96

 

 

8. According to Ukrainian tradition,  what will happen to you if you whistle  whilst indoors?

 

a.) You will never find your true  love

b.) You will lose your job

c.) You will attract the attention of  the authorities

d.) You will never be rich

 

9. What was the name of the  traditional blind Ukrainian bards who  were systematically wiped out during  the 1930s in Stalin’s purges?

 

a.) Kaniv

b.) Kobzar

c.) Svobodnikh

d.) Koza

 

 

10. Which is the only world   heavyweight championship title  belt which the Klitschko brothers  do not currently hold?

 

a.) WBA

b.) WBO

c.) WBC

d.) IBF

 

 

 

 

 

 

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