Q 01/05

Bosnia and Herzegovina shares land borders with which three countries?

A) Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia

B) Serbia, Albania and Croatia

C) Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro

D) Croatia, Hungary and Serbia

Answer · why

C) Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro

The Croatian border alone runs 932 km, wrapping around the north and west.

Q 02/05

Bosnia and Herzegovina's coastline on the Adriatic is roughly how long?

A) 60 km

B) 400 km

C) 120 km

D) 20 km

Answer · why

D) 20 km

It consists of the single town of Neum, which splits Croatia's Dubrovnik region from the rest of the country.

Q 03/05

Which is the only town on Bosnia and Herzegovina's short Adriatic coast?

A) Neum

B) Počitelj

C) Stolac

D) Trebinje

Answer · why

A) Neum

It sits 47 km from Dubrovnik and its strip of coast cuts Croatia's southernmost territory off from the rest of Croatia.

Q 04/05

Whose assassination in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 sparked World War I?

A) Kaiser Wilhelm II

B) King Peter I of Serbia

C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand

D) Emperor Franz Joseph

Answer · why

C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie were shot in their open car by a 19-year-old.

Q 05/05

Why was Gavrilo Princip, the 1914 Sarajevo assassin, spared the death penalty?

A) He was too young, at 19

B) Serbia negotiated his release

C) He turned informant on the Black Hand

D) He was declared insane

Answer · why

A) He was too young, at 19

He got 20 years and died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918, having lost an arm to the disease.