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

Turkey. Ankara shut that border in 1993 to back Azerbaijan in its war with Armenia, and it was still closed more than 30 years later.

Q 02/05

Around 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

Adopt Christianity as its official religion. Tradition says King Tiridates III kept Gregory the Illuminator in a pit for over a decade, then freed him...

Q 03/05

What is the native name Armenians use for Armenia?

A) Ararat

B) Hayastan

C) Urartu

D) Nairi

Answer · why

B) Hayastan

Hayastan. Armenians call themselves Hay, and tradition traces the name to Hayk, a legendary archer said to have freed his people by killing the Babylo...

Q 04/05

Which Iron Age kingdom around Lake Van, a rival of Assyria, ruled the Armenian highlands before the Armenians?

A) Bactria

B) Mitanni

C) Cilicia

D) Urartu

Answer · why

D) Urartu

Urartu. Its engineers cut a canal that still carries water to Van more than 2,500 years on, and the Armenians succeeded the kingdom in the 6th century...

Q 05/05

Which Armenian city grew from Erebuni, a fortress whose founding in the 8th century BC is recorded on a cuneiform slab?

A) Gyumri

B) Vanadzor

C) Yerevan

D) Dilijan

Answer · why

C) Yerevan

Yerevan. The slab, unearthed in 1950, records a king founding the fortress, and the city counts its age from it: it celebrated its 2,800th birthday in...