Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Romania?

A) Cluj-Napoca

B) Timișoara

C) Bucharest

D) Iași

Answer · why

C) Bucharest

It stands on the River Dâmbovița and was nicknamed 'Paris of the East' for its architecture between the wars.

Q 02/05

Romania lies on the northwestern shore of which sea?

A) Black Sea

B) Adriatic Sea

C) Aegean Sea

D) Baltic Sea

Answer · why

A) Black Sea

The Danube empties into it through a delta shared with Ukraine.

Q 03/05

Which of these countries does NOT border Romania?

A) Hungary

B) Serbia

C) Moldova

D) Poland

Answer · why

D) Poland

Its neighbours are Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Moldova, plus the Black Sea coast.

Q 04/05

The name 'Romania' ultimately derives from a Latin word meaning what?

A) River land

B) Roman

C) Eastern land

D) Fortress

Answer · why

B) Roman

The ethnonym român was first written down by Italian humanists travelling the region in the sixteenth century.

Q 05/05

The Romanian language belongs to which family, alongside Italian, French and Spanish?

A) Slavic

B) Romance

C) Turkic

D) Baltic

Answer · why

B) Romance

It evolved from Vulgar Latin and is the official language of both Romania and Moldova, spoken by about 22 million people natively.