Q 01/05

Belgrade sits at the confluence of the Danube and which other river?

A) The Tisza

B) The Sava

C) The Morava

D) The Drina

Answer · why

B) The Sava

The Celtic Scordisci built their capital Singidunum there; the city holds nearly a fifth of Serbia's population and is four times the size of the seco...

Q 02/05

How many countries border Serbia, not counting the disputed frontier with Albania through Kosovo?

A) Four

B) Seven

C) Five

D) Nine

Answer · why

B) Seven

Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and one more to the southwest; the country is landlocked.

Q 03/05

Which dynasty ruled Serbia from 1166 to 1371 and raised it to a kingdom in 1217 and an empire in 1346?

A) The Obrenovic

B) The Nemanjic

C) The Karadjordjevic

D) The Petrovic-Njegos

Answer · why

B) The Nemanjic

Stefan Dusan was the emperor; Stefan Nemanja, the founder, retired to build a monastery.

Q 04/05

The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 pitted Prince Lazar's army against which invading power?

A) The Byzantine Empire

B) The Ottoman Empire

C) The Kingdom of Hungary

D) The Mongols

Answer · why

B) The Ottoman Empire

Both Lazar and Sultan Murad I died; the battle became the central myth of Serbian identity.

Q 05/05

Who led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottomans in 1804?

A) Milos Obrenovic

B) Karadjordje Petrovic

C) Vuk Karadzic

D) Nikola Pasic

Answer · why

B) Karadjordje Petrovic

Serbia was free for almost a decade before the Ottomans returned; Milos Obrenovic's second uprising in 1815 won autonomy by compromise.