Q 01/05

What does the name Yugoslavia literally mean?

A) Land of the Free Slavs

B) Land of the South Slavs

C) Land of the West Slavs

D) Land of the United Slavs

Answer · why

B) Land of the South Slavs

Land of the South Slavs: jug is the local Slavic word for "south". One South Slav people never joined, though, because the Bulgarians kept a state of ...

Q 02/05

Under what name was Yugoslavia founded in 1918?

A) Kingdom of Serbs and Montenegrins

B) The South Slavic Union

C) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

D) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Bosnians

Answer · why

C) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Prince Regent Alexander proclaimed it on 1 December 1918 for his ailing father, King Peter I, uniting Serbia wi...

Q 03/05

Why did King Alexander rename his kingdom Yugoslavia?

A) Treaty terms

B) Common identity

C) Territorial gains

D) Dynastic change

Answer · why

B) Common identity

Common identity: after scrapping the constitution and banning political parties in January 1929, he renamed the country that October to forge a single...

Q 04/05

Which royal dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Yugoslavia?

A) Obrenović

B) Petrović-Njegoš

C) Habsburg

D) Karađorđević

Answer · why

D) Karađorđević

Karađorđević: the dynasty took its name from its founder Karađorđe, "Black George", a livestock trader who led the Serbs' 1804 uprising against Ottoma...

Q 05/05

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was shot dead in 1934 at the start of a state visit to which country?

A) Italy

B) France

C) Bulgaria

D) Hungary

Answer · why

B) France

France: the king was shot as his car moved slowly through the streets soon after he landed, and French foreign minister Louis Barthou, riding with him...