Q 01/05

Moldova is bordered by Ukraine and which other country?

A) Bulgaria

B) Romania

C) Hungary

D) Belarus

Answer · why

B) Romania

The Prut river forms the western border; more than three-quarters of Moldovans speak Romanian.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Moldova?

A) Tiraspol

B) Chisinau

C) Balti

D) Comrat

Answer · why

B) Chisinau

Founded as a monastery village in 1436, it sits on the Bic river and holds about a third of the country's people in its metro area.

Q 03/05

The unrecognised breakaway state on Moldova's eastern edge, beyond the Dniester river, is called what?

A) Gagauzia

B) Transnistria

C) Bessarabia

D) Bukovina

Answer · why

B) Transnistria

Its own name for itself is the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic; about 1,500 Russian soldiers remain there.

Q 04/05

Which city is the capital of the breakaway east-bank region and Moldova's second-largest?

A) Bender

B) Tiraspol

C) Ribnita

D) Balti

Answer · why

B) Tiraspol

It is also home to the football club that once beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

Q 05/05

Moldova's autonomous region of Gagauzia is home to a people whose mother tongue belongs to which family?

A) Slavic

B) Turkic

C) Romance

D) Finno-Ugric

Answer · why

B) Turkic

Unusually for Turkic speakers the Gagauz are mostly Orthodox Christians; their capital is Comrat, briefly a self-declared republic for six days in 190...