#1 Buttons 20 seconds
Which of the following countries was NOT part of former Yugoslavia?
North Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
Albania
Albania bordered Yugoslavia, but was not a part of it.
#2 Buttons 20 seconds
What German state was located on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea?
Prussia
Saxony
Württemberg
Bavaria
The state of Prussia existed from 1525–1947.
#3 Buttons 20 seconds
What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925-1961?
Volgograd
St. Petersburg
Yekaterinburg
Kiev
Before Stalin, the city was called Tsaritsyn since 1589.
#4 Buttons 20 seconds
What is the modern day name of the city of Constantinople?
Istanbul
Kairo
Bucharest
Sarajevo
Constantinople was once the capital of the East Roman empire.
#5 Buttons 20 seconds
Of which other nation was Finland an integral part up until 1809?
Sweden
Russia
Lithuania
Prussia
Sweden lost a third of its territory and a quarter of its population to Russia when Finland was conquered.
#6 Buttons 20 seconds
What mediterranean city was capital in the republic of Ragusa?
Dubrovnik
Marseille
Venice
Izmir
Dubrovnik is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea.
#7 Buttons 20 seconds
Which is a former European great power constituted of two monarchies and dissolved in 1918?
Austria-Hungary
Denmark-Norway
Poland-Lithuania
Spain-Portugal
The assassination of the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary sparked the First World War.
#8 Buttons 20 seconds
What was the capital of West Germany?
Bonn
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Berlin
The German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn.
#9 Buttons 20 seconds
What historical Prussian city on the Baltic Sea is now Kaliningrad?
Königsberg
Danzig
Köslin
Memel
Königsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of WW2.
#10 Buttons 20 seconds
What wall marked the northern border of the Roman Empire in Britain.
Hadrian's
Diocletian's
Aurelian
Anastasian
Hadrian focused on defending the current borders, namely at the time Britain.
#11 Buttons 20 seconds
In what central European historical region lies Prague?
Bohemia
Bavaria
Moravia
Silesia
Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.
#12 Buttons 20 seconds
What city was known as Leningrad from 1924-1991?
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Volgograd
Nizhny Novgorod
From 1914–1924, the city was known as Petrograd.
#13 Buttons 20 seconds
Which is another name for the Eastern Roman Empire?
Byzantium
Greece
Thrace
Turkey
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople.