Q 01/05

Which castle is marketed to tourists as 'Dracula's Castle', although it was never Vlad's home?

A) Peleș Castle

B) Bran Castle

C) Bánffy Castle

D) Sturdza Castle

Answer · why

B) Bran Castle

Bran Castle owes the billing to its looks, all towers and turrets on a rock above a mountain pass. Its real ties to Vlad are thin, and historians say ...

Q 02/05

Fiction's Dracula is a count, but what rank did Vlad hold?

A) Tsar

B) King

C) Prince

D) Baron

Answer · why

C) Prince

Prince is the usual English for voivode, the title Vlad held over Wallachia. He won and lost that throne three times between 1448 and 1476.

Q 03/05

By which nickname, meaning 'the Impaler', is Vlad III best known in his homeland?

A) Țepeș

B) Basarab

C) Voievod

D) Negru

Answer · why

A) Țepeș

Țepeș was never a name he used himself. An Ottoman chronicler called him the Impaler Lord around 1500, a generation after his death.

Q 04/05

Vlad's father earned the nickname 'Dracul' by joining which knightly order in 1431?

A) The Order of the Garter

B) The Order of the Golden Fleece

C) The Order of Saint George

D) The Order of the Dragon

Answer · why

D) The Order of the Dragon

The Order of the Dragon gave him the byname, since Dracul then meant 'the Dragon'. His son's famous name Dracula simply means 'son of Dracul'.

Q 05/05

Sigismund of Hungary, whose knightly order gave Vlad's father his name, later won which greater title?

A) Holy Roman Emperor

B) Byzantine Emperor

C) Tsar of All Russia

D) King of France

Answer · why

A) Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor was the crown Sigismund went on to win. He had founded the order to defend Christian Europe against the Ottoman advance, and Vlad's...