Slovakia Trivia
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50 free Slovakia trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Forty-six questions on Slovakia, the mountainous heart of Central Europe that has been Great Moravia, Upper Hungary, half of Czechoslovakia and, since 1993, a country of its own. Geography covers Bratislava, the only capital bordering two other countries, the High Tatras and Gerlachovsky stit, the Vah and the Danube, nine national parks, UNESCO caves and the spa towns. History runs from Celtic Biatec coins and the Roman camp at Trencin, through Samo, Nitra, Great Moravia and Saints Cyril and Methodius, a thousand years inside the Kingdom of Hungary, Bratislava as Hungary's capital, Czechoslovakia in 1918, Tiso's clerical-fascist state and the deportation of the Jews, the Slovak National Uprising, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce, and the euro, NATO and EU. Culture and sport cover the double cross on the flag, bryndzove halusky and kapustnica, the fujara, Spis Castle and Banska Stiavnica, Andy Warhol's Rusyn roots, the 2002 hockey gold, Peter Sagan's three rainbow jerseys, the 2010 World Cup win over Italy and a car industry that builds more vehicles per person than any nation on Earth. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the country, its cities, history and people, and the sentence that establishes it is quoted under each explanation. Suits a pub quiz, a Central European history class or a Tatra hiking trip.
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Q 01Which other capital city lies only about 50 km up the Danube from Bratislava?
Vienna
Vienna is so close that a fast catamaran, the Twin City Liner, carries passengers down the river from one capital to the other in about 75 minutes.
Q 02Bratislava is the only national capital in the world with what geographic distinction?
Land borders with two other countries
Land borders with two other countries meet at the city's edge: both frontiers run past Bratislava's own suburbs, and some Slovaks live in a village just across one of them and commute in daily.
Q 03What is Slovakia's second-largest city, the main centre of the country's east?
Kosice
Kosice has staged its Peace Marathon since 1924, when a local sports fan inspired by that year's Paris Olympics organised the first race; no marathon in Europe is older.
Q 04What is the highest peak in Slovakia and in the whole Carpathian range?
Gerlachovsky stit
Gerlachovsky stit changed names with the regimes: it became Legionnaires Peak in the 1920s and Stalin Peak in 1949 before its old name, taken from a village at its foot, came back.
Q 05Which emblem stands on three blue hills in Slovakia's coat of arms?
Double cross
A double cross tops hills said to stand for three ranges, the Tatra, Fatra and Matra, although the Matra range itself lies outside today's Slovakia.
Q 06What is the longest river lying wholly within Slovakia?
The Vah
The Vah drops fast from the Tatras, and Slovakia has put it to work: a chain of dams and hydroelectric stations lines the river.
Q 07Which Slovak national park has trails that climb ladders through waterfall gorges?
Slovak Paradise
Slovak Paradise streams have cut a limestone plateau into deep, narrow gorges, so many of its trails run straight up the streambeds on ladders, chains and footbridges.
Q 08Which countess, accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, was shut up for life in Cachtice Castle in western Slovakia?
Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory saw her servants tried and executed for the killings, while she herself was simply confined to her own castle, where she died in her sleep in 1614.
Q 09Which two Byzantine missionary brothers arrived in Great Moravia in 863 and created a Slavic alphabet?
Cyril and Methodius
Cyril and Methodius devised the Glagolitic script; the Cyrillic alphabet that carries Cyril's name was probably worked out later by their pupils in Bulgaria.
Q 10Under which ruler did Great Moravia reach its greatest extent in the late 9th century?
Svatopluk I
Svatopluk I took power in 870 by overthrowing his uncle Rastislav and handing him to the Franks; after his own death in 894 the realm soon fell apart.
Q 11Juraj Janosik, executed in 1713, lives on in Slovak legend as the local version of which English folk hero?
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is the usual comparison because legend has Janosik robbing nobles to give to the poor, though the real robber had little to do with the tales later told about him.
Q 12What were the Celtic silver coins from Bratislava, bearing Slovakia's first known writing, called?
Biatecs
Biatecs are named after the word stamped on most of them in Latin capitals, BIATEC, presumably the Celtic king who had them struck in the 1st century BC.
Q 13Which Roman emperor campaigned against the Quadi in what is now Slovakia?
Marcus Aurelius
Q 21When Slovakia adopted the euro in 2009, which of its neighbours was already using it?
Austria
Austria had the euro from its launch; Czechia, Hungary and Poland joined the EU alongside Slovakia in 2004 but have all kept their own currencies.
Q 22Slovak-born miner Stefan Banic, shaken by a plane crash he had witnessed, patented an early design for which device in 1914?
A parachute
A parachute worn around the body like an umbrella won Banic his US patent in August 1914; he sold the rights to the army, though there is no evidence it was ever used.
Q 23What world record in manufacturing did Slovakia first claim in 2007?
Most cars produced per capita
Marcus Aurelius left a trace of the campaign in his Meditations: one part of the book is headed as written among the Quadi on the Granua, the river now called the Hron in central Slovakia.
Q 14From the 11th century until 1918, the territory of Slovakia was an integral part of which state?
The Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary called the region Upper Hungary and held it for some nine centuries, until the 1920 Treaty of Trianon confirmed the new border drawn after the First World War.
Q 15Why did Pressburg, today's Bratislava, become a royal capital and coronation city in 1536?
Ottoman expansion threatened Buda
Ottoman expansion threatened Buda, which fell in 1541; Pressburg then crowned the kingdom's monarchs for centuries, eleven kings and eight queens in St Martin's Cathedral alone.
Q 16Czechoslovakia's independence was declared on 18 October 1918 by Masaryk, Benes and which Slovak?
Milan Rastislav Stefanik
Milan Rastislav Stefanik was an astronomer who rose to general in the French Army during the war; he died in May 1919 when the plane bringing him home crashed near Bratislava.
Q 17Who was president of the clerical-fascist Slovak Republic that allied with Nazi Germany from 1939?
Jozef Tiso
Jozef Tiso was a Catholic priest; a national uprising rose against his rule and the German army in 1944, and he went to the gallows for treason in 1947 still dressed in his clerical robes.
Q 18Which 1922 vampire film used Orava Castle in northern Slovakia as the count's Transylvanian lair?
Nosferatu
Nosferatu's crew never went to Transylvania: they shot Count Orlok's homeland in northern Slovakia, with Orava Castle as his home and the High Tatras as the wild country around it.
Q 19Which Slovak communist led the 1968 Prague Spring liberalisation crushed by the Warsaw Pact?
Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubcek was expelled from the party and sent to work for the forestry service, then came back after the 1989 revolution as chairman of the federal parliament.
Q 20The peaceful split of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993 is nicknamed what?
The Velvet Divorce
The Velvet Divorce borrowed its name from the bloodless Velvet Revolution of 1989; President Vaclav Havel resigned in 1992 rather than preside over the breakup.
Most cars produced per capita became Slovakia's record without a single home-grown marque: about a million cars a year have rolled out of foreign-owned plants in a country of five million people.
Q 24Which carmaker has run a large car plant in Bratislava since 1991?
Volkswagen
Volkswagen bought into the Bratislava works in 1991, when it was a communist-era factory assembling Skodas, and turned it into the group's centre for big SUVs.
Q 25As of 2025, which energy source generated more than half of Slovakia's electricity?
Nuclear power
Nuclear power comes from just two plants, Bohunice and Mochovce, and its share climbed past 60 percent after a long-delayed third reactor at Mochovce started up in 2023.
Q 26What is Slovakia's national dish?
Bryndzove halusky
Bryndzove halusky, gnocchi-like potato dumplings under soft cheese and fried bacon, are traditionally washed down with zincica, the soured whey left over from making that cheese.
Q 27The soft, salty cheese in Slovakia's national dish is made from the milk of which animal?
Sheep
Sheep's milk cheese of this kind reached the Carpathians with migrating Vlach shepherds, and under its EU label the Slovak version must still be at least half sheep's milk.
Q 28Which Slovak folk instrument, a long overtone flute, is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list?
Fujara
Fujara pipes, as tall as the shepherds who played them alone in the hills, owe their deep mumbling notes and high overtones to that length and to having only three finger holes.
Q 29Slovakia's national anthem 'Nad Tatrou sa blyska' takes its melody from what?
A folk song
A folk song about a girl digging a well supplied the tune in 1844, when students who had walked out of their Pressburg school over a sacked teacher set new, defiant words to it.
Q 30Which hilltop ruin in eastern Slovakia, one of the country's largest castle sites, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Spis Castle
Spis Castle was given up by its owners as too uncomfortable to live in, gutted by fire in 1780 and left to crumble until conservators began shoring up its walls in 1970.