Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Croatia?

A) Ljubljana

B) Split

C) Rijeka

D) Zagreb

Answer · why

D) Zagreb

Zagreb: it grew from two rival hilltop towns, the clergy's Kaptol and the merchants' Gradec, which feuded for centuries before merging into one city i...

Q 02/05

Croatia's coastline lies on which sea?

A) Adriatic Sea

B) Aegean Sea

C) Ionian Sea

D) Black Sea

Answer · why

A) Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea: Venice, at its northern end, ruled much of Croatia's coast from 1420 until 1797, when Napoleon handed both the city and its shore to Aus...

Q 03/05

Croatia declared independence from which country in 1991?

A) Czechoslovakia

B) Austria-Hungary

C) Yugoslavia

D) The Soviet Union

Answer · why

C) Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia both declared independence on 25 June 1991, and the fighting that followed in Croatia did not end until 1995.

Q 04/05

Which menswear item derives from a garment worn by Croatian soldiers in the 17th century?

A) The necktie

B) The waistcoat

C) The bowler hat

D) The cufflink

Answer · why

A) The necktie

The necktie: French fashion copied the knotted scarves of Croat cavalrymen in the 1600s, and 'cravate', from the French word for a Croat, became the g...

Q 05/05

Which explorer does the Croatian island of Korčula claim as its native son?

A) Christopher Columbus

B) Marco Polo

C) Vasco da Gama

D) Ferdinand Magellan

Answer · why

B) Marco Polo

Marco Polo: Croatia's tourist board bills Korčula as 'the island of Marco Polo', though most historians say the great traveller was born in Venice.