| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Actor in "Servant of the People" who became Ukraine's sixth president in 2019 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 70%
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| Nuclear power plant that suffered the explosion of a reactor in April 1986 | Chernobyl | 65%
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| Region annexed by Russia in February 2014 as a reprisal for the above | Crimea | 65%
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| Region which sought to secede under Russian support, leading to war | Donbas | 65%
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| Year in which uprisings forced Tsar Nicholas II to adopt constitutional reforms | 1905 | 55%
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| City that served as the capital of the Ukraine SSR from 1922 to 1934 | Kharkiv | 55%
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| Port city home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet that was besieged in 1854 | Sevastopol | 55%
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| Conservative movement that opposed the above, named for another color | White Army | 55%
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| Soviet premier who transferred Crimea to the Ukraine SSR in 1954 | Nikita Khrushchev | 50%
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| Series of protests against electoral fraud in the 2004 presidential election | Orange Revolution | 50%
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| Ukraine's fifth president who believed in "military, language, faith" | Petro Poroshenko | 50%
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| Bolshevik army, founded by Leon Trotsky, named for a color | Red Army | 50%
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| Anarchist communist movement, founded by Makhno, known for this color | Black Army | 45%
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| Ukraine is known as the _____ of Europe for its abundance of black soil | Breadbasket | 45%
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| Ethnic group entirely deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan in May 1944 | Crimean Tatars | 45%
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| Armed peasant groups that fought for autonomy, named for another color | Green Army | 45%
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| 1932-33 man-made famine caused by high food requisitions | Holodomor | 45%
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| Ukraine's fourth president who refused to sign agreement with EU in 2013 | Viktor Yanukovych | 45%
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| Galicia became controlled by this country after the partitions of Poland | Austria | 40%
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| Term for wealthy peasants who were "liquidated as a class" in 1931 | Kulaks | 40%
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| 978-1015 ruler nicknamed "the Great" who converted to Christianity in 988 | Volodymyr I | 40%
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| Protests against the above's pro-Russian policies, suppressed by the above | Euromaidan Protests | 35%
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| Historian who was the first to document the Dnieper River basin | Herodotus | 35%
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| Politician who became the first president of Ukraine in 1991 | Leonid Kravchuk | 35%
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| 2015 series of agreements that ended war in the above region | Minsk Agreements | 35%
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| Pact signed with Nazi Germany in 1939 that gave Ukraine control over Galicia | Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | 35%
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| 2014 "revolution" that ousted the president and returned to the 2004 Constitution | Revolution of Dignity | 35%
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| Politician who became Ukraine's third president in 2005 following the above | Viktor Yushchenko | 35%
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| Decisive 1709 battle marking Sweden's defeat and the hetmanate's end | Battle of Poltava | 30%
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| Navy fleet partitioned in 1997, in which Ukraine received 18% of the vessels | Black Sea Fleet | 30%
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| Georgian editor of "Ukrainska Pravda" who was murdered in 2000 | Georgiy Gongadze | 30%
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| Mongol khanate that captured Kyiv in 1240 | Golden Horde | 30%
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| British cavalry force that charged against Russians at the Battle of Balaclava | Light Brigade | 30%
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| State established by the Union of Lublin in 1569 that controlled Ukraine | Poland-Lithuania | 30%
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| UPA leader who fought against the Soviets and the Nazis during WWII | Stepan Bandera | 30%
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| 1019-1054 ruler nicknamed "the Wise" who patronized literary culture | Yaroslav I | 30%
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| Soviet agricultural policy in which peasants work on state-owned farms | Collectivization | 25%
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| Escaped serfs who acted as border guards for the above | Cossacks | 25%
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| Mongol vassal state, home to Tatars, that later became an Ottoman vassal | Crimean Khanate | 25%
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| Hetman who defected to Sweden and fought against Russia in 1708 | Ivan Mazepa | 25%
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| Polity established by the above group, named for the city it was based in | Kyivan Rus' | 25%
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| 1994 agreement in which Ukraine promised to give up its nuclear arsenal | Budapest Memorandum | 20%
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| Hydroelectric dam completed in 1932 as an example of Soviet industrialization | Dniprohes | 20%
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| Mongol vassal state led by Danylo of Halych and captured by Poland in 1349 | Galicia-Volhynia | 20%
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| Movement founded in 1989 that became Ukraine's first opposition party | Rukh | 20%
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| Inhabitants of the Pontic Steppe who engaged in trade with the Greek | Scythians | 20%
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| Mongol vassal state that declared independence as Muscovy in 1476 | Vladimir-Suzdal | 20%
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| Ravine outside Kyiv where 33,000 Jews were massacred in two days | Babi Yar | 15%
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| Hetman of the above who led a 1648 rebellion from Zaporizhzhia | Bohdan Khmelnytsky | 15%
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| 1937-38 event in which Soviet political dissidents were murdered | Great Purge | 15%
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| Historian and politician who was a proponent of the above event in Ukraine | Mykhailo Hrushevsky | 15%
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| Viking group that settled in Ukraine and conquered the Drevlians in 883 | Varangians | 15%
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| Welsh journalist who revealed the famine and was murdered in China | Gareth Jones | 10%
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| Name one of the two Ukrianian intellectuals who committed suicide in 1933 | Skrypnyk / Khvylovy | 10%
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| 1654 treaty that declared the hetmanate's allegiance to Russia | Treaty of Pereiaslav | 10%
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| Eastern branch of Slavs that inhabited Ukraine during the Byzantine Era | Antes | 5%
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| Council, founded by the above, that declared Ukrainian independence in 1917 | Central Rada | 5%
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| Christian branch that follows Orthodox teachings and recognizes the Pope | Eastern Rite | 5%
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| Policy that advocated for the indigenization of each Soviet republic | Korenizatsiia | 5%
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| Scandal in which Ukraine's second president ordered the abduction of the above | Kuchmagate | 5%
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| Greek city state that founded the Black Sea colony of Olbia | Miletus | 5%
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| Group that supplanted the above, halting trade with the Romans | Sarmatians | 5%
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| 945-972 ruler nicknamed "the Brave" who expanded territory | Sviatoslav I | 5%
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| 1649 treaty that established Ukraine as an independent hetmanate | Treaty of Zboriv | 5%
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| NGO founded in 1976 to monitor human rights in Ukraine (dissolved in 1981) | Ukrainian Helsinki Group | 5%
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| Pro-Bolshevik writer and politician who became leader of the Directory | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | 5%
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| NYT journalist who won a Pulitzer Price for his fake reports of the famine | Walter Duranty | 5%
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| Massive constructivist office building completed in the above city in 1928 | Derzhprom | 0%
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| Literary critic who published "Internationalism or Russification?" in 1965 | Ivan Dziuba | 0%
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| UNA commander and journalist who led Ukraine from 1918 to 1920 | Symon Petliura | 0%
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