| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Sacred mountain in neighboring Turkey where Noah's Ark supposedly landed | Mount Ararat | 97%
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| Capital city of Armenia, lying under the foot of the above mountain | Yerevan | 92%
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| Armenian name for Armenia | Hayastan | 76%
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| Armenia was annexed by this country in 1920 | Soviet Russia | 55%
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| Bronze and Iron Age kingdom in the Armenian highlands | Urartu | 55%
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| Eastern Armenia was taken by this empire in 1828 | Russian Empire | 53%
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| Legendary patriarch considered to be the founder of Armenia | Hayk | 47%
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| Enver Pasha blamed WWI failure on Armenians, leading to this 1915-1923 atrocity | Armenian Genocide | 42%
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| Armenia fought over this territory with its eastern neighbor, Azerbaijan | Nagorno-Karabakh | 39%
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| Under the rule of the above, Armenian converted to this religion | Zoroastrianism | 39%
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| Empire that the above kingdom was constantly at war with | Assyrian Empire | 34%
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| After Byzantine occupation, Armenia was taken over by this empire in 1071 | Seljuk Empire | 34%
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| Armenia reached its greatest under this king but was defeated by Pompey | Tigranes II the Great | 34%
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| The Mongol invasion was followed by control of this empire | Ottoman Empire | 32%
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| Divided since the 4th century, Armenia was later captured by this caliphate | Umayyad Caliphate | 32%
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| Rebellions in Western Armenia was met with this 1894-1896 atrocity | Hamidian Massacres | 26%
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| Scholar in the 4th century who invented the Armenian alphabet | Mesrop Mashtots | 26%
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| Armenia was later controlled by this empire, created by a Macedonian general | Seleucid Empire | 26%
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| This king helped Armenia gain freedom from Roman rule in 190 BC | Artashes I | 24%
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| Armenia was conquered in 585 BC by this Persian Empire | Median Empire | 24%
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| First president of the Republic of Armenia since its independence in 1991 | Levon Ter-Petrosyan | 18%
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| Scholar in the 5th century who wrote History of the Armenians | Movses Khorenatsi | 16%
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| 1988 Earthquake that hit Armenia hard | Spitak Earthquake | 16%
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| Armenia regain its independence under this king in the ninth century | Ashot I | 13%
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| Armenian cathedral, built in 301, credited as the world's oldest | Etchmiadzin Cathedral | 13%
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