Georgia (Country) Trivia
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49 free Georgia (Country) trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Georgians call their country Sakartvelo, speak a language related to nothing else on Earth, write it in an alphabet of their own, and have been making wine in clay kvevri for about 8,000 years. The land of the Golden Fleece adopted Christianity in 337, had a Golden Age under a woman titled 'king of kings', was swallowed by the Russian Empire in 1801 and by the Red Army in 1921, and declared independence again in April 1991. This quiz covers the place from the Dmanisi hominins to the 2024 protests: Colchis and Iberia, Saint Nino and King Mirian, David the Builder and Tamar, the Treaty of Georgievsk, Stalin and Beria, the 1989 Tbilisi tragedy, the Rose Revolution and the Russo-Georgian War, plus the geography — Shkhara, Kazbek, the Rioni and Mtkvari — and the culture: khinkali and khachapuri, the tamada and the supra, polyphony on the Voyager record, rugby as national sport and Zaza Pachulia in the NBA. Early questions suit anyone who can find the country on a map; later ones ask for dates, peaks, treaties and the first country to say Sakartvelas. Fifty questions, every one sourced.
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Q 01What is the capital and largest city of Georgia?
Tbilisi
Tbilisi took over from nearby Mtskheta as the royal capital some 1,500 years ago and has been sacked and rebuilt by a long line of invaders since, among them Arabs, Mongols and Timur.
Q 02Georgia lies on the east coast of which sea?
The Black Sea
The Black Sea sends warm, moist air over western Georgia, giving it a humid subtropical climate where tea and citrus grow, while the wall of the Caucasus keeps out cold air from the north.
Q 03What do Georgians call their own country?
Sakartvelo
Sakartvelo has even caught on abroad: after Georgian diplomats objected that Gruzija echoed the Russian name for the country, Lithuania made Sakartvelas its official name for Georgia.
Q 04The Georgian language belongs to which language family?
Kartvelian
Kartvelian is a tiny family of just Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Laz, with no proven relatives, so Georgian shares no roots with neighbouring Armenian, Azerbaijani or Russian.
Q 05At which Georgian site were 1.8-million-year-old skulls found, among the oldest human fossils ever discovered outside Africa?
Dmanisi
Dmanisi was being dug as a ruined medieval town when archaeologists found that its old cellars had been cut into far older layers full of prehistoric animal bones, and then early human skulls.
Q 06Georgia hosts the earliest known sites of what, dating to about 6000 BCE?
Winemaking
Winemaking residue turned up in 8,000-year-old pottery jars from two Neolithic villages in Georgia, some decorated with grape clusters, overtaking finds from Iran as the oldest known evidence of wine.
Q 07Greek mythology placed the Golden Fleece in which ancient western Georgian kingdom?
Colchis
Colchis was famed for its gold, and the ancient geographer Strabo reported that locals trapped gold dust from mountain streams in sheepskins, which he took to be the origin of the Golden Fleece myth.
Q 08Which 4th-century king made Christianity the state religion of Iberia, the ancient kingdom of eastern Georgia?
Mirian III
Mirian III is said to have converted after sudden darkness trapped him on a hunt and lifted only when he prayed to the Christian God, making Iberia one of the first Christian kingdoms.
Q 09Which missionary from Cappadocia is credited with converting the Georgian kingdom of Iberia to Christianity?
Saint Nino
Saint Nino is said to have carried a cross of grapevine branches bound with strands of hair, and its drooping arms remain a symbol of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Q 10Which dynasty rose in the early 9th century and ruled Georgia for a thousand years?
The Bagrationi
Prince Ashot I used infighting among Arab governors to build its power in Tao-Klarjeti.
Q 11The cathedral named after Bagrat III, first king of a unified Georgia, stands in which city?
Kutaisi
Kutaisi's cathedral was wrecked by Ottoman forces in the 1690s, and a heavy-handed modern rebuild cost it its UNESCO World Heritage status in 2017.
Q 12Which two rulers' reigns define the Georgian Golden Age?
David IV and Tamar
David IV and Tamar bookend the age: he drove back the Seljuk Turks, and under his great-granddaughter the kingdom stretched across the whole Caucasus, before Mongol invasions ended it from the 1220s.
Q 13At which battle did Georgia's King David the Builder inflict a crushing defeat on the Seljuk Turks?
Didgori
Q 21Khachapuri, the bread sold everywhere in Georgia from corner bakeries to upscale restaurants, is stuffed with what?
Cheese
Cheese bread is such a staple that Georgian economists track inflation with a Khachapuri Index, modelled on the Big Mac Index, which follows the cost of the flour, dairy and other ingredients.
Q 22Which former Soviet foreign minister led Georgia from 1992 until 2003?
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze had already run Georgia once, as its Communist Party boss from 1972; he came home in 1992 after a coup toppled the country's first elected president.
Q 23The bloodless 2003 uprising that forced Georgia's president to resign is known as what?
The Rose Revolution
Didgori opened the way for David to capture the capital, out of Georgian hands for centuries, and he made it the seat of his kingdom.
Q 14Medieval Georgian texts style Tamar, sole ruler from 1184, with which title?
King of kings
King of kings is how Tamar was styled: Georgian texts call her king because she ruled as a monarch in her own right, not as a king's consort.
Q 15Which poem by Shota Rustaveli is considered Georgia's national epic?
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is set far from Georgia: its heroes are knights of Arabia and India, though Rustaveli's prologue says he sings it in praise of his own sovereign, Tamar.
Q 16In 1783 King Erekle II placed eastern Georgia under the protection of which empire, which annexed his kingdom outright 18 years later?
The Russian Empire
The Russian Empire promised protection in the Treaty of Georgievsk but sent no help when an Iranian army sacked the capital in 1795, then deposed the royal line and annexed the country in 1801.
Q 17Which Georgian writer led the national revival movement of the late 19th century?
Ilia Chavchavadze
Ilia Chavchavadze, still called the father of the nation, was shot dead in a roadside ambush in 1907 and later canonised by the Georgian Orthodox Church as Saint Ilia the Righteous.
Q 18When Georgia declared independence on 26 May 1918, it placed itself under the protection of which wartime power?
Germany
Germany's protection lasted only months: once it lost the First World War, British troops moved in instead and stayed until 1920.
Q 19Which army captured the Georgian capital in February 1921, ending the country's independence?
The Red Army
The Red Army invaded less than a year after Soviet Russia had recognised Georgia's independence by treaty, and only weeks after the Allies had granted the young republic full recognition.
Q 20Which event of 4–9 April 1989 discredited Soviet rule in Georgia?
Troops crushed a peaceful demonstration
Troops crushed a peaceful demonstration in the early hours of 9 April 1989, and most of the dead were women; Georgia chose the second anniversary of that day to declare its independence.
The Rose Revolution was named for the red roses protesters carried as they burst into parliament; the president was cut off in mid-speech and hurried away by his bodyguards.
Q 24Which French president negotiated the ceasefire that ended the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia?
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy stepped in because France held the European Union's rotating presidency that summer, and he carried the peace plan from Moscow to the Georgian capital in person.
Q 25Which party's 2012 election win was Georgia's first peaceful electoral transfer of power?
Georgian Dream
Georgian Dream was the creation of the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who was stripped of his Georgian citizenship within days of announcing it and was prime minister a year later.
Q 26Who won Georgia's 2018 presidential election, becoming the first woman elected to the office?
Salome Zourabichvili
Salome Zourabichvili was born in Paris to Georgian refugees and was posted to the country as France's ambassador in 2003, then gave up the post to become Georgia's foreign minister.
Q 27In 2018 a court ruling made Georgia the first former Soviet republic to legalise what?
Cannabis
Cannabis use stopped being an offence when the Constitutional Court struck down the penalties for it, reasoning that users harm only themselves; growing and selling the drug remain crimes.
Q 28Greek myth says Zeus chained which Titan to a mountain in the Caucasus, the range along Georgia's northern border?
Prometheus
Prometheus was pinned to the rock so that an eagle could eat his liver, which grew back every night for the bird to eat again, until Heracles killed the eagle and set him free.
Q 29Which of Georgia's neighbours is the only one that belongs to NATO?
Turkey
Turkey joined NATO in 1952. Georgia was itself promised eventual membership at the alliance's Bucharest summit in 2008, a pledge repeated at summits since and still unfulfilled.
Q 30The Mtkvari, the river that runs through Georgia's capital, crosses Azerbaijan and empties into which sea?
The Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is really the world's largest inland body of water, so the river that flows past Georgia's capital, the Kura on most maps, never reaches an ocean.