1. Which Ukrainian city was known in Soviet times as Voroshilovgrad?

a) Donetsk
b) Kharkiv
c) Sevastopol
d) Luhansk

2. On which Kyiv street do the main character’s in Bulgakov’s classic Russian civil war novel “White Guard” live?

a) Khreshchatyk
b) Volodymyrska
c) Andriyivskiy Uzviz
d.) Maidan Nezalezhnosti

3. Which Ukrainian former Olympic champion represented the country in the recent Eurovision Dance  Contest finals?

a) Lilya Podkopayeva
b) Yana Klotchkova
c) Volodymyr Klitschko
d) Ruslana

4. One which date does Ukraine hold memorials for the victims of the 1930s Holodomor terror famine?

a.) December 5
b.) November 22
c.) The last Saturday in November
d.) The first Sunday in December

5. What is Kyiv’s ecologically unique city centre island called?

a) Truhaniv Island
b) Green Island
c) Omelchenko Island
d) Lyonia Kosmos Isle

6. In Ukraine it is considered unlucky to shake hands where?

a.) In hospital
b.) close to an open window
c.) Under an umbrella
d.) Across a threshold

7. Which Crimean town boasts one of the world’s best preserved Genoese Fortresses?

a.) Yalta
b.) Feodosia
c.) Sudak
d.) Noviy Svit

8. What is the main port city in Donetsk Oblast?

a.) Uzhniy Donetsk
b.) Novozavodsk
c.) Berdyansk
d.) Mariupol

9. The main building of Kyiv’s National University is painted which colour?

a) Orange
b) White
c) Yellow
d) Red

10. What is the name of this island (pictured), which is at the centre of a sea-bed territorial dispute between Ukraine and Romania?

a.) Achilles Island
b.) Stalin Island
c.) Serpent Island
d.) Dracula Island
 

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