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BRAIN OF UKRAINE!

  • BRAIN OF UKRAINE!
Issue 12, April 2009.

1. What was today’s Ukraine House in Kyiv known as in Soviet times?

a) The House of Eternal Slavonic
Brotherhood
b) The Lenin Museum
c) The Stalin Palace
d) Museum of Atheism

2. Which Ukrainian football team is coached by Lviv legend Myron Markevich?

a) Dynamo Kyiv
b) Odesa Chernomorets
c) Metalist Kharkiv
d) Stakhanovets F.C.

3. In which year did Ukraine receive Crimea?

a) 1917
b) 1991
c) 1996
d) 1954

4. Which is Ukraine’s largest Oblast in terms of land mass?

a) Kherson Oblast
b) Kyiv Oblast
c) Lviv Oblast
d) Odesa Oblast

5. Which professional title did Viktor Yanukovich misspell on his application to be President of Ukraine in 2004, leading to numerous jokes about his alleged lack of education?

a) Master of Sports
b) Honorary Chairman
c) Professor
d) Director

6. Which Ukrainian city will be home to the Donbass Arena sports stadium?
a) Donetsk
b) Kharkiv
c) Dnipropetrovsk
d) Luhansk

7. In honour of which Ukrainian film director are the country’s main studios in Kyiv named?

a) Ivan Franko Junior
b) Aleksandr Dovzhenko
c) Viktor Ivchenko
d) Ihor Podolchak

8. Britain, France and which other European state joined the Ottoman Turks in fighting the Russian Empire during the 19th
century Crimean War?

a) Belgium
b) Austria
c) Piedmont
d) Naples

9. Which two Ukrainian cities did Pope John Paul II visit in 2001?

a) Kyiv and Donetsk
b) Kyiv and Odesa
c) Lviv and Sevastopol
d) Lviv and Kyiv

10. What percentage of Ukrainians voted in favour of independence during the referendum held in December 1991?

a) 50%
b) 90%
c) 65%
d) 70%

 

 

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