Q 01/05

Moldova is bordered by Ukraine and which other country?

A) Bulgaria

B) Romania

C) Hungary

D) Belarus

Answer · why

B) Romania

Romania is Moldova's only neighbour besides Ukraine, and it governed most of today's Moldova between the world wars until a Soviet ultimatum in June 1...

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Moldova?

A) Tiraspol

B) Chisinau

C) Balti

D) Comrat

Answer · why

B) Chisinau

Chisinau was so badly damaged in the Second World War that much of today's city centre dates from the Soviet rebuilding that followed.

Q 03/05

The unrecognised breakaway state along Moldova's eastern edge is called what?

A) Gagauzia

B) Transnistria

C) Bessarabia

D) Bukovina

Answer · why

B) Transnistria

Transnistria calls itself the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, yet no United Nations member recognises it, even though about 1,500 Russian troops we...

Q 04/05

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

A) Bender

B) Tiraspol

C) Ribnita

D) Balti

Answer · why

B) Tiraspol

Tiraspol grew up beside a fortress the Russian army built in 1792 to guard its new frontier, and until 1940 it was the capital of a Soviet Moldavian r...

Q 05/05

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

A) Turkic

B) Slavic

C) Romance

D) Finno-Ugric

Answer · why

A) Turkic

Unusually for Turkic speakers, the Gagauz are mostly Orthodox Christians, and they live mainly in southern Moldova.