Q 01/05

Which Hungarian-born actor became the screen's most famous Count Dracula in the 1931 film Dracula?

A) Boris Karloff

B) Christopher Lee

C) Vincent Price

D) Bela Lugosi

Answer · why

D) Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi was born with the surname Blaskó in the town of Lugos and took his stage name from it, and he had already played the Count on Broadway fro...

Q 02/05

Hungarian belongs to which language family, making it unrelated to any neighbouring tongue?

A) Romance

B) Turkic

C) Uralic

D) Slavic

Answer · why

C) Uralic

Uralic is the family of Finnish and Estonian too, but Hungarian's closest relatives are Mansi and Khanty, spoken thousands of kilometres away in weste...

Q 03/05

'Magyar', as in Hungary's own name Magyarország, is thought to come from the name of what?

A) The leading conquering tribe

B) A legendary founding king

C) The word for horse-riders

D) A river in the old homeland

Answer · why

A) The leading conquering tribe

The leading conquering tribe, the Megyer, is the usual explanation: it was one of seven tribes that took the Carpathian Basin in the 890s, and its nam...

Q 04/05

Which river flows through central Hungary, with the whole country in its drainage basin?

A) Tisza

B) Danube

C) Sava

D) Drava

Answer · why

B) Danube

Danube dam plans, a joint project with Czechoslovakia, drew years of protest from Hungarians who feared for the river and their drinking water, and in...

Q 05/05

Which rock star sang a Hungarian folk song to 80,000 fans at a rare Western concert in Budapest in 1986?

A) Freddie Mercury

B) Mick Jagger

C) David Bowie

D) Bruce Springsteen

Answer · why

A) Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury and his band Queen filmed the night as the concert movie Hungarian Rhapsody, at a time when very few Western groups played the Eastern...