Q 01/05

The name Transylvania comes from medieval Latin and means what?

A) Under the mountains

B) Land of the wolves

C) Between the rivers

D) Beyond the forest

Answer · why

D) Beyond the forest

The earliest reference is a 1078 Hungarian document calling it 'ultra silvam'.

Q 02/05

The German name for Transylvania, Siebenbürgen, refers to what?

A) Seven mountain passes

B) Seven Saxon fortified towns

C) Seven great rivers

D) Seven ruling princes

Answer · why

B) Seven Saxon fortified towns

The Latin equivalent was Septem Castra; the seven red towers still appear on the region's coat of arms.

Q 03/05

What is the Hungarian name for Transylvania, from which the Romanian 'Ardeal' derives?

A) Kárpátalja

B) Bánság

C) Felvidék

D) Erdély

Answer · why

D) Erdély

It was first recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Hungarorum as Erdeuleu, from a Hungarian phrase with the same meaning.

Q 04/05

Which mountain range forms Transylvania's natural border to the east and south?

A) The Tatras

B) The Balkans

C) The Alps

D) The Carpathians

Answer · why

D) The Carpathians

The Apuseni Mountains close it off to the west.

Q 05/05

The mountains ringing Transylvania hold Europe's largest populations of which large animal?

A) European bison

B) Brown bears

C) Elk (moose)

D) Reindeer

Answer · why

B) Brown bears

The range also has the continent's biggest concentrations of wolves, chamois and lynx.