Ukraine History
#WeStandWithUkraine in this trivia game about all things Ukrainian history.
15 questions · Published March 14, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. In 1919, Ukrainian engineer Yuri Kondratyuk created the "lunar orbit rendezvous" to allow ___________ 11 to deliver the first men to the moon.
Fifty years before Apollo 11 would put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, Yuri Kondratyuk created the mathematical proof and concept used for landing and relaunching the lunar module.
- Multiple Choice
2. What was Volodymyr Zelenskyy's profession before becoming president of Ukraine in 2019?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an actor and comedian before running for president of Ukraine. He named his political party, Servant of the People, after a TV show in which he played president of the country.
- Multiple Choice
3. Ukraine is the worlds largest cultivator of ____________, seen as their unofficial national symbol since the 18th century.
Ukraine has always had vast sunflower fields but became the world's largest cultivator of the plant in the 1990s when, as a symbol of peace, they planted new fields over former nuclear missile sites.
- Multiple Choice
4. What composer credited his Ukrainian heritage for his prolific output while living in Kyiv in the mid-1800s?
Pyotr Tchaikovsky was born in a small village in modern day Ukraine and said that Kyiv gave him a peace in his soul that he did not find in Moscow, so much so that he wrote thirty works while living there.
- Multiple Choice
5. What city hosted a historical 1945 post-WWII conference attended by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt?
The Yalta Conference took place at the city's Livadia Palace and is one of the defining moments of 20th century politics; the three world leaders mapped out the path for European recovery following World War II.
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