Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Romania?

A) Constanța

B) Craiova

C) Bucharest

D) Iași

Answer · why

C) Bucharest

Bucharest. Its name first appears in a 1459 document signed by Vlad the Impaler, who built a fortress there.

Q 02/05

Romania's only coastline lies on which sea?

A) Black Sea

B) Adriatic Sea

C) Aegean Sea

D) Baltic Sea

Answer · why

A) Black Sea

Black Sea. Ancient Greeks planted trading colonies along this coast, and one of them, Tomis, grew into today's port city of Constanța.

Q 03/05

Which country lies across the Danube's Iron Gates gorge from southwestern Romania?

A) Bulgaria

B) Serbia

C) Hungary

D) Croatia

Answer · why

B) Serbia

Serbia. Romania and what was then Yugoslavia dammed the gorge together in 1972, sharing the power equally and drowning the inhabited island of Ada Kal...

Q 04/05

Which Roman poet was banished by Emperor Augustus to Tomis, now the Romanian city of Constanța?

A) Ovid

B) Virgil

C) Horace

D) Catullus

Answer · why

A) Ovid

Ovid. He blamed 'a poem and a mistake' without ever saying what the mistake was, and died in exile there about a decade later.

Q 05/05

The Romanian language descends mainly from which ancient language?

A) Greek

B) Old Slavonic

C) Latin

D) Dacian

Answer · why

C) Latin

Latin. Historians still debate where the language took shape after Rome left Dacia in the 270s, but it grew up cut off from its sister tongues among S...