Q 01/05

Zelenskyy is which number president of Ukraine?

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

Answer · why

D) Sixth

Thanks to martial law extending his term, he is its second-longest serving after Leonid Kuchma.

Q 02/05

Before politics, Zelenskyy played a fictional president in which television series?

A) Evening Kvartal Live

B) Svaty (The In-Laws)

C) Servant of the People

D) Love in the Big City

Answer · why

C) Servant of the People

His character was a history teacher whose rant against corruption went viral; the show ran from 2015 until his real election.

Q 03/05

Zelenskyy was born in 1978 in which industrial city?

A) Dnipro

B) Kryvyi Rih

C) Kharkiv

D) Odesa

Answer · why

B) Kryvyi Rih

His comedy troupe Kvartal 95 is named after the neighbourhood where he grew up.

Q 04/05

Zelenskyy's father Oleksandr is a professor of what?

A) Mining engineering

B) International law

C) Musical theatre

D) Cybernetics and computing

Answer · why

D) Cybernetics and computing

He heads the department at the local university of economics and technology; Zelenskyy's mother is a retired engineer.

Q 05/05

Before elementary school, Zelenskyy spent four years in which country, where his father helped build a copper mine?

A) Kazakhstan

B) Poland

C) Bulgaria

D) Mongolia

Answer · why

D) Mongolia

The family lived in Erdenet in the mid-1970s.

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