Ukraine Quiz #1

Ukraine Quiz #1

Questions

1. What is the capital city of Ukraine?
2. Which major sea lies to the south of Ukraine?
3. In what year did the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occur?
4. What city had to be evacuated and permanently abandoned following the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor?
5. In which year of the 21st century did Russia annex the Crimean Peninsula?
6. Which major river flows north to south through the centre of Ukraine?
7. As of March 2022, who is the incumbent President of Ukraine?
8. What year did Ukraine achieve its independence from the USSR, which is celebrated as Independence Day on August 24th?
9. Unity Day, a national holiday on the 22nd January, commemorates an earlier declaration of independence by Ukraine, this time from Soviet Russia. In which year did this occur?
10. How many countries share a land border with Ukraine?
11. What is the national currency of Ukraine?
12. What sea is bordered by the eastern Crimean Peninsula, has Mariupol on its northern coast, and is fed by the Don River from Russia?
13. What is the name of the coastal military city stationed on the southwest of the Crimean Peninsula, most well-known as the site of a year-long siege during the Crimean War?
14. Which Ukrainian left back signed for English football club Manchester City in 2016?
15. What city, near the Polish border, is considered the capital of western Ukraine, and is well-known as a pearl of European architecture?
16. Which Ukrainian cinematographer was tragically shot on the set of the film ‘Rust’ on October 21st, 2021?
17. What does the yellow aspect of the Ukrainian flag represent?
18. What language is most commonly spoken in Ukraine?
19. What is the name of the Ukrainian distilled spirit commonly flavoured with peppers?
20. Athlete Sergey Bubka broke the world record 35 times in which men’s athletic event?
21. Which major tourism centre and seaport is known as the "pearl of the Black Sea"?
22. What is the surname of the Ukrainian brothers, both of whom held world heavyweight boxing titles during the 21st century? Clue: the elder brother was also elected Mayor of Kyiv.
23. Who is the Ukrainian national football team’s all-time leading goal scorer?
24. Which American actress at the age of 7 moved from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S.A with her family, and went on to star in major films such as Black Swan and Ted?
25. Ukraine’s highest mountain, Mount Hoverlam with a height of 2061m, lies in which eastern European mountain range?
26. Which Ukrainian biologist, born in 1845 in Kharkiv, was the first to develop a coherent theory of how the human immune system functions, which led to him winning a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1908?
27. What is the name of the Ukrainian aircraft, which was titled the world’s largest plane, and was destroyed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine?
28. Which sour soup, made primarily with beetroot, is the national dish of Ukraine?

1. What is the capital city of Ukraine?

   Kyiv
2. Which major sea lies to the south of Ukraine?

   Black sea
3. In what year did the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occur?

   1986
4. What city had to be evacuated and permanently abandoned following the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor?

   Pripyat
5. In which year of the 21st century did Russia annex the Crimean Peninsula?

   2014
6. Which major river flows north to south through the centre of Ukraine?

   Dnieper River
7. As of March 2022, who is the incumbent President of Ukraine?

   Volodymyr Zelenskyy
8. What year did Ukraine achieve its independence from the USSR, which is celebrated as Independence Day on August 24th?

   1991
9. Unity Day, a national holiday on the 22nd January, commemorates an earlier declaration of independence by Ukraine, this time from Soviet Russia. In which year did this occur?

   1918
10. How many countries share a land border with Ukraine?

    7
11. What is the national currency of Ukraine?

    Ukrainian Hryvnia
12. What sea is bordered by the eastern Crimean Peninsula, has Mariupol on its northern coast, and is fed by the Don River from Russia?

    Sea of Azov
13. What is the name of the coastal military city stationed on the southwest of the Crimean Peninsula, most well-known as the site of a year-long siege during the Crimean War?

    Sevastopol
14. Which Ukrainian left back signed for English football club Manchester City in 2016?

    Oleksandr Zinchenko
15. What city, near the Polish border, is considered the capital of western Ukraine, and is well-known as a pearl of European architecture?

    Lviv
16. Which Ukrainian cinematographer was tragically shot on the set of the film ‘Rust’ on October 21st, 2021?

    Halyna Hutchins
17. What does the yellow aspect of the Ukrainian flag represent?

    Wheat
18. What language is most commonly spoken in Ukraine?

    Ukrainian
19. What is the name of the Ukrainian distilled spirit commonly flavoured with peppers?

    Horlivka
20. Athlete Sergey Bubka broke the world record 35 times in which men’s athletic event?

    Pole vault
21. Which major tourism centre and seaport is known as the "pearl of the Black Sea"?

    Odessa
22. What is the surname of the Ukrainian brothers, both of whom held world heavyweight boxing titles during the 21st century? Clue: the elder brother was also elected Mayor of Kyiv.

    Klitschko
23. Who is the Ukrainian national football team’s all-time leading goal scorer?

    Andriy Shevchenko
24. Which American actress at the age of 7 moved from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S.A with her family, and went on to star in major films such as Black Swan and Ted?

    Mila Kunis
25. Ukraine’s highest mountain, Mount Hoverlam with a height of 2061m, lies in which eastern European mountain range?

    Carpathian Mountains
26. Which Ukrainian biologist, born in 1845 in Kharkiv, was the first to develop a coherent theory of how the human immune system functions, which led to him winning a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1908?

    Elie Metchnikoff
27. What is the name of the Ukrainian aircraft, which was titled the world’s largest plane, and was destroyed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine?

    Antonov An-225
28. Which sour soup, made primarily with beetroot, is the national dish of Ukraine?

    Borshch