Q 01/05

Kyiv straddles both banks of which river?

A) Dniester

B) Dnieper

C) Don

D) Southern Bug

Answer · why

B) Dnieper

The Dnieper. It carried the great medieval trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, and that traffic is what turned an early Slavic settlem...

Q 02/05

Which giant cargo plane, built in Kyiv and the heaviest aircraft ever flown, was destroyed in the 2022 invasion?

A) An-124 Ruslan

B) An-225 Mriya

C) An-22 Antei

D) Il-76 Candid

Answer · why

B) An-225 Mriya

An-225 Mriya, whose name means 'dream'. Built in the 1980s to carry the Soviet space shuttle on its back, the only one ever finished was wrecked in it...

Q 03/05

Kyiv's monument to its four legendary founders shows them standing in what?

A) A chariot

B) A boat

C) A watchtower

D) A sleigh

Answer · why

B) A boat

A boat. The sister stands at the bow with her arms spread and her three brothers, Kyi among them, behind her; put up for the city's 1,500th anniversar...

Q 04/05

What was the name of the sister of Kyiv's three legendary founding brothers?

A) Olha

B) Lesya

C) Berehynia

D) Lybid

Answer · why

D) Lybid

Lybid. A small river that runs through Kyiv still carries her name, its valley long since built over by the growing city.

Q 05/05

Which people captured Kyiv in the mid-9th century, ending Khazar tribute?

A) Mongols

B) Pechenegs

C) Magyars

D) Varangians

Answer · why

D) Varangians

The Varangians. By the chronicle's account a second band of them came down from Novgorod in 882, killed the rulers Askold and Dir, and made Kyiv the c...