Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Georgia?

A) Tbilisi

B) Batumi

C) Kutaisi

D) Rustavi

Answer · why

A) Tbilisi

More than a third of the country's 3.9 million people live there.

Q 02/05

Georgia lies on the east coast of which sea?

A) The Caspian Sea

B) The Sea of Azov

C) The Aegean Sea

D) The Black Sea

Answer · why

D) The Black Sea

Russia lies to the north, Turkey and Armenia to the south and Azerbaijan to the south-east.

Q 03/05

What do Georgians call their own country?

A) Sakartvelo

B) Gruzia

C) Kartlos

D) Iberia

Answer · why

A) Sakartvelo

It means 'land of Kartvelians'; Lithuania adopted 'Sakartvelas' officially in 2020.

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 family, unrelated to any other?

A) Indo-European

B) Turkic

C) Semitic

D) Kartvelian

Answer · why

D) Kartvelian

Svan, Mingrelian and Laz are its relatives; nothing outside the Caucasus is.