Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Georgia?

A) Tbilisi

B) Yerevan

C) Baku

D) Sukhumi

Answer · why

A) Tbilisi

Tbilisi took over from nearby Mtskheta as the royal capital some 1,500 years ago and has been sacked and rebuilt by a long line of invaders since, amo...

Q 02/05

Georgia lies on the east coast of which sea?

A) The Mediterranean Sea

B) The Sea of Azov

C) The Aegean Sea

D) The Black Sea

Answer · why

D) The Black Sea

The Black Sea sends warm, moist air over western Georgia, giving it a humid subtropical climate where tea and citrus grow, while the wall of the Cauca...

Q 03/05

What do Georgians call their own country?

A) Sakartvelo

B) Gruzia

C) Hayastan

D) Kartlos

Answer · why

A) Sakartvelo

Sakartvelo has even caught on abroad: after Georgian diplomats objected that Gruzija echoed the Russian name for the country, Lithuania made Sakartvel...

Q 04/05

Modern scholars derive the name 'Georgia' from a term in which language?

A) Persian

B) Greek

C) Latin

D) Russian

Answer · why

A) Persian

The ethnonym Gurj may relate to gurğān, 'land of wolves'; Saint George's popularity helped the name stick in Europe.

Q 05/05

The Georgian language belongs to which language family?

A) Indo-European

B) Turkic

C) Semitic

D) Kartvelian

Answer · why

D) Kartvelian

Kartvelian is a tiny family of just Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Laz, with no proven relatives, so Georgian shares no roots with neighbouring Armeni...