Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Hungary?

A) Debrecen

B) Pécs

C) Szeged

D) Budapest

Answer · why

D) Budapest

The city was created when Buda and Óbuda on the west bank were united with Pest on the east.

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

It is distantly related to Finnish and Estonian and is the largest Uralic language by number of speakers.

Q 03/05

The Hungarian name for the country, Magyarország, takes "Magyar" from the name of what?

A) The leading tribe of the seven conquering tribes

B) A legendary founding king

C) The word for horse-riders

D) The river of the original homeland

Answer · why

A) The leading tribe of the seven conquering tribes

The "H" in the English name most likely comes from historical associations with the Huns.

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

The traditional regions are defined by it: Transdanubia lies beyond it to the west, and the Great Plain stretches east.

Q 05/05

What is the highest point in Hungary, at 1,014 m?

A) Kékes

B) Dobogó-kő

C) Galya-tető

D) Írott-kő

Answer · why

A) Kékes

It lies in the Carpathian foothills near the Slovak border; the whole country is dominated by lowland plains.