1
Which of the following countries was NOT part of former Yugoslavia?
North Macedonia
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
23% got this right
Albania bordered Yugoslavia, but was not a part of it.
2
What German state was located on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea?
Prussia
Bavaria
Saxony
Württemberg
53% got this right
The state of Prussia existed from 1525–1947.
3
What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925-1961?
Volgograd
Kiev
St. Petersburg
Yekaterinburg
34% got this right
Before Stalin, the city was called Tsaritsyn since 1589.
4
What is the modern day name of the city of Constantinople?
Istanbul
Bucharest
Kairo
Sarajevo
80% got this right
Constantinople was once the capital of the East Roman empire.
5
Of which other nation was Finland an integral part up until 1809?
Sweden
Lithuania
Prussia
Russia
55% got this right
Sweden lost a third of its territory and a quarter of its population to Russia when Finland was conquered.
6
What mediterranean city was capital in the republic of Ragusa?
Dubrovnik
Izmir
Marseille
Venice
41% got this right
Dubrovnik is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea.
7
Which is a former European great power constituted of two monarchies and dissolved in 1918?
Austria-Hungary
Denmark-Norway
Poland-Lithuania
Spain-Portugal
80% got this right
The assassination of the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary sparked the First World War.
8
What was the capital of West Germany?
Bonn
Berlin
Frankfurt
Hamburg
36% got this right
The German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn.
9
What historical Prussian city on the Baltic Sea is now Kaliningrad?
Königsberg
Danzig
Köslin
Memel
72% got this right
Königsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of WW2.
10
What wall marked the northern border of the Roman Empire in Britain.
Hadrian's
Anastasian
Aurelian
Diocletian's
61% got this right
Hadrian focused on defending the current borders, namely at the time Britain.
11
In what central European historical region lies Prague?
Bohemia
Bavaria
Moravia
Silesia
47% got this right
Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.
12
What city was known as Leningrad from 1924-1991?
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
Volgograd
73% got this right
From 1914–1924, the city was known as Petrograd.
13
Which is another name for the Eastern Roman Empire?
Byzantium
Greece
Thrace
Turkey
71% got this right
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople.
