Q 01/05

Armenia is a landlocked country bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and which country to the west?

A) Russia

B) Turkey

C) Syria

D) Iraq

Answer · why

B) Turkey

Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave also touches it to the south.

Q 02/05

In AD 301 Armenia became the first state in the world to do what?

A) Abolish slavery by royal decree

B) Issue paper money to its army

C) Hold elections for its king

D) Adopt Christianity as its official religion

Answer · why

D) Adopt Christianity as its official religion

King Tiridates III was converted by Gregory the Illuminator, partly in defiance of Sasanian Persia.

Q 03/05

What is the native name Armenians use for their country?

A) Ararat

B) Hayastan

C) Urartu

D) Nairi

Answer · why

B) Hayastan

It comes from Hayk, the legendary patriarch said to be a great-great-grandson of Noah.

Q 04/05

Which state, established in 860 BC, is considered the first Armenian state?

A) Bactria

B) Mitanni

C) Cilicia

D) Urartu

Answer · why

D) Urartu

It fell in the 6th century BC and was replaced by the Persian Satrapy of Armenia.

Q 05/05

Yerevan traces its founding to the fortress of Erebuni, built in 782 BC by which Urartian king?

A) Tigranes the Great

B) Argishti I

C) Artaxias I

D) Ashot I

Answer · why

B) Argishti I

A cuneiform inscription found in the city records the date, making Yerevan older than Rome.