50 free Lithuania trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Lithuania was once the largest country in Europe, the last pagan state on the continent, and the first Soviet republic to break away. It speaks the most conservative living Indo-European language, worships basketball, eats dumplings named after airships, has a hill covered in a hundred thousand crosses and a bohemian district that declared itself a republic on April Fools' Day. This Lithuania trivia quiz covers all of it. Forty-seven questions run from geography (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, the Nemunas, Aukštojas Hill, the Curonian Spit, the centre of Europe) through history (Mindaugas and 1253, Gediminas and the Iron Wolf, Grunwald, the Union of Lublin, the partitions, the press ban, 16 February 1918, Smetona, the Soviet and Nazi occupations, the Forest Brothers, Sąjūdis, 11 March 1990, the January Events, NATO and the euro) to culture and sport (the flag and Vytis, Lithuanian and Latvian, Catholicism, Čiurlionis, cepelinai and šaltibarščiai, Užupis, the Hill of Crosses, Sabonis and Žalgiris, Alekna and Meilutytė). Roughly a third are easy, a third medium, and the rest are for people who really know the Baltics. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia and official pages, so the dates, numbers and names are ones you can rely on.
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Q 01What is the capital and largest city of Lithuania?
Vilnius
It is the most populous city in the Baltic states, and its Old Town has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.
Q 02Who united the Lithuanian lands and was crowned the first and only King of Lithuania in 1253?
Mindaugas
He was crowned a Catholic king on 6 July, still celebrated as Statehood Day; after his assassination in 1263 Lithuania returned to paganism.
Q 03By the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania held what distinction?
Largest country in Europe
It grew to about 650,000 km2 by absorbing East Slavic lands after the Mongol invasions weakened Kievan Rus'.
Q 04Which grand duke is credited with founding the capital after dreaming of an iron wolf on a hill?
Gediminas
He ruled from about 1316 to 1341, and his Gediminid dynasty went on to rule Poland, Hungary and Bohemia.
Q 05At which 1410 battle did Polish–Lithuanian forces under Jogaila and Vytautas crush the Teutonic Order?
Grunwald
Lithuanians call it Žalgiris; Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen died on the field.
Q 06Lithuania was officially Christianised in which year, making it the last pagan state in Europe to convert?
1387
Catholicism has been the main religion ever since; rulers' bodies had been cremated until the conversion.
Q 07The 1569 union that created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was signed in which city?
Lublin
Sigismund II Augustus pushed the deal through; Lithuania kept its own laws and seal within the joint state.
Q 08The Great Sejm's constitution of 3 May 1791 was Europe's first and the world's what?
Second
The Commonwealth was wiped from the map four years later in the Third Partition.
Q 09Which power annexed most of Lithuania in the partitions completed in 1795?
Russia
Prussia took the Užnemunė region; the Kościuszko Uprising and a brief recapture of Vilnius in 1794 had failed.
Q 10After the 1863 uprising, Tsarist authorities imposed what measure against the local culture?
A ban on the Lithuanian press
Vilnius University had already been shut in 1832; the ban helped spark the Lithuanian National Revival.
Q 11On what date in 1918 did the Council of Lithuania sign the Act of Independence?
16 February
It restored a democratic republic with Vilnius as capital; women voted for the first time in 1919.
Q 12Which city served as Lithuania's temporary capital between the wars after Poland seized the historic one?
Kaunas
Żeligowski's mutiny in 1920 set up a puppet Central Lithuania that Poland absorbed in 1922.
Q 13The 1923 revolt that united which port region with Lithuania?
Klaipėda
Lithuania was forced to hand the region to Nazi Germany in 1939 under a German ultimatum.
Q 21Lithuania joined NATO and the European Union in which year?
2004
It joined Schengen in 2007 and swapped the litas for the euro on 1 January 2015.
Q 22Lithuania replaced its litas with the euro on 1 January of which year?
2015
The litas had circulated since 1993.
Q 23What are the three colours of Lithuania's flag, top to bottom?
Yellow, green, red
It was adopted on 25 April 1918; the ratio changed from 1:2 to 3:5 in 2004.
Q 24Lithuania's coat of arms, an armoured knight on horseback, is known by what name?
Q 14Who led the authoritarian regime installed by Lithuania's 1926 coup?
Antanas Smetona
In 1934–35 his Lithuania held Europe's first mass trial of Nazis.
Q 15Of roughly 220,000 Jews living in Lithuania in June 1941, how many were killed in the Holocaust?
Almost all
Vilnius had been so important a Jewish centre that Napoleon dubbed it "the Jerusalem of the North" in 1812.
Q 16Lithuanian partisan resistance to Soviet occupation was finally suppressed in which year?
1953
Their chairman Jonas Žemaitis was executed in 1954 and his successor Adolfas Ramanauskas in 1957.
Q 17On 11 March 1990 Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to do what?
Proclaim the restoration of its independence
The Soviets answered with an economic blockade from 20 April 1990.
Q 18How many civilians were killed by Soviet forces in the capital during the January Events of 1991?
14
More than 140 were injured as crowds defended the TV tower and parliament; the Medininkai Massacre that July killed 7 border guards.
Q 19Which movement, founded in the late 1980s, led Lithuania's drive to restore independence?
Sąjūdis
It took part in the 1989 Baltic Way human chain across the three Baltic states.
Q 20Who became Lithuania's first directly elected president after independence, in 1993?
Algirdas Brazauskas
The last Russian troops left the country later that year, on 31 August 1993.
Vytis
In use since the early 15th century, it is among the oldest heraldic symbols in Europe.
Q 25Lithuanian is considered the most conservative living language of which family?
Indo-European
It retains many features of Proto-Indo-European and is closely related to Latvian, though the two are not mutually intelligible.
Q 26The first Lithuanian grammar, Grammatica Litvanica, was published in 1653 in which language?
Latin
Danielius Kleinas wrote it; Jonas Jablonskis later standardised the modern language.
Q 27What is Lithuania's highest point, at 294 m?
Aukštojas Hill
The country is flat and watery, with more than 3,000 lakes, mostly in the northeast.
Q 28Which is Lithuania's main and longest river, whose basin covers 74% of the country?
Nemunas
It carries international shipping and its delta park hosts more than 300 bird species.
Q 29Where did a 1989 calculation by France's national geographic institute place the centre of Europe?
26 km north of Vilnius
Jean-George Affholder fixed it at 54°54′N 25°19′E after re-estimating the continent's boundaries.
Q 30The 98-km Curonian Spit, a UNESCO site of giant dunes, is shared by Lithuania and which country?
Russia
The southern half lies in Kaliningrad Oblast; the resort of Nida sits on the Lithuanian side.