Ukraine Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz questions about the country of Ukraine

Ukraine Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

Where is the country of Ukraine located?
A: In Eastern Europe.

It is the second largest country in Europe after what country?
A: Russia.

Ukraine shares borders with what countries?
A: Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.
 
How big in area is Ukraine?
A: 230,000 sq mi.

What is the population?
A: About 40 million.

What is the nation's capital?
A: Kyiv (previously Kiev).

When did Ukraine become independent from Russia?
A: 1991.

The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since when?
A: 32,000 BC.

When was the Ukrainian People's Republic formed?
A: In 1917.

This short-lived state was forcibly reconstituted into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in what year?
A: In 1922.

From 1932 to 1933, what did the Holodomor do?
A: Killed millions of Ukrainians.

In 1939, Western Ukraine was annexed from Poland by whom?
A: The USSR.

Ukraine regained its independence in what year?
A: In 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union.

Since its independence, Ukraine has been governed as a what?
A: A unitary republic under a semi-presidential system.

In 2013, mass protests and demonstrations known as the “what” erupted?
A: Euromaidan.

It escalated into the Revolution of Dignity that led to the establishment of what?
A: A new government.

Ukraine is considered the likely location of the first domestication of what animal?
A: The horse.

Who inhabited Ukraine during the Iron Age?
A: Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians.

Between 700 BC and 200 BC it was part of what kingdom.
A: The Scythian Kingdom.

From the 6th century BC, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine colonies were established on the north-eastern shore of what?
A: The Black Sea.

The 13th-century Mongol invasion in 1240 destroyed what city?
A: Kyiv.

In the years 1764-1781, who incorporated much of Central Ukraine into the Russian Empire?
A: Catherine the Great.

After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 1783, the newly acquired lands, now called Novorossiya were opened up to settlement by whom?
A: Russians.

The tsarist autocracy established a policy of Russification, suppressing the use of the what?
A: The Ukrainian language and curtailing the Ukrainian national identity.

The western part of present-day Ukraine was subsequently split between Russia and whom?
A: Austria after the fall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

Following the Peace of Riga signed on 18 March 1921, Poland took control of modern-day western Ukraine while Soviets took control of what?
A: Eastern and central Ukraine.

The 19th century saw the rise of what?
A: Ukrainian nationalism.

Ukrainians entered World War I on the side of both the Central Powers, under Austria, and what?
A: The Triple Entente, under Russia.

Around 3.5 million Ukrainians fought with whom?
A: The Imperial Russian Army.

How many Ukrainians fought for the Austro-Hungarian Army?
A: 250,000.

During the Russian Revolution and War of Independence, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed on what date?
A: 23 June 1917.