1. In which year did Crimea become part of Ukraine?

a) 1917
b) 1954
c) 1856
d) 1991

2. Which Ukrainian city was known as Stalino during the Soviet era?

a) Odesa
b) Kharkiv
c) Donetsk
d) Yalta

3. Which Cossack Hetman allied with Sweden’s King Charles XII against Russia’s Peter I in an attempt to win independence for Ukraine in 1709?

a) Bohdan Khmelnitskiy
b) Ivan Mazepa
c) Ivan Skoropadskiy
d) Kyrylo Rozumovskiy

4. In which year did Lviv’s Ruslana win the Eurovision Song Contest?

a) 2004
b) 2003
c) 2005
d) 2001

5. Which football team won the Ukrainian Premier League’s inaugural season in 1991-92?

a) Dynamo Kyiv
b) Tavria Simferopol
c) Shakhtar Donetsk
d) Karpate Lviv

6. Modern-day Ukraine includes land annexed from which countries in the wake of the Soviet victory in World War II?

a) Poland and Germany
b) Poland and Lithuania
c) Hungary and Austria
d) Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania

7. Which Kyiv metro station is reputedly the deepest in the world?

a) Maidan Nezolezhnosti
b) Lev Tolstova
c) Arsenalna
d) Kontraktova Ploshchad

8. When is the Russian Black Sea Fleet due to leave the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol?

a) 2009
b) 2010
c) 2011
d) 2017

9. Which Ukrainian city is affectionately known as “Mama”?

a) Odesa
b) Kherson
c) Kyiv
d) Luhansk

10. What was the name of the student group at the centre of the Orange Revolution demonstrations of 2004?

a) Nyet!
b) Pora
c) Glasnost
d) Tak!

11. Which Beatles song features praise for the attractiveness of Ukrainian women?

a) Yellow Submarine
b) Help!
c) Back in the USSR
d) Dyvchyna Dancing

12. Which Ukrainian city was home to the celebrated Soviet miner Stakhanov, who gave rise to the expression “Stakhanovitz” to imply someone whose excellence far exceeds all reasonable expectations?

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

13. In which European city did the KGB assassinate Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera in 1959?

a) Paris
b) Munich
c) Berlin
d) Olso

14. By which four different names was the city of Lviv known during the 20th century?

a) Leopolis, Lemberg, Lwow, Lviv
b) Leograd, Lemberg, Lwow, Lviv
c) Lemberg, Lwow, Lvov, Lviv
d) Leopolis, Lwow, Leograd, Lvov

15. What two elements make up the traditional Ukrainian greeting?

a) Bread and salt
b) Vodka and bacon
c) Bread and honey
d) Flowers and salo

1. (b); 2. (c); 3. (b); 4. (a); 5. (b); 6. (d); 7. (c); 8. (d); 9. (a); 10. (b); 11. (c); 12. (b); 13. (b); 14. (c); 15. (a);