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The Cossack era quiz — History

The “The Cossack era” quiz — History. It has 25 questions in five categories: Frontier Map, Camp Life, Birth of a State, Sea and Battle, Culture and Memory. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: The Cossack era

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Frontier Map

  1. 100

    The Ukrainian Cossacks built their strongholds along which great river?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Zaporozhian Cossacks took their name from living 'beyond' which natural obstacles on the Dnipro, shown here?

  3. 300

    Which island near Zaporizhzhia…

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  4. 400

    What was the vast…

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  5. 500

    Which prince built a…

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Camp Life

  1. 100

    What did the Zaporozhian Cossacks call their fortified headquarters on the lower Dnipro?

  2. 200

    The word 'Cossack' comes from a Turkic term for someone who answered to no lord. How is it usually translated?

  3. 300

    What was the assembly…

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  4. 400

    What name did Cossacks…

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  5. 500

    What title belonged to…

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Birth of a State

  1. 100

    Who led the 1648 uprising that gave rise to a Ukrainian Cossack state?

  2. 200

    What is the usual English name for the Cossack state founded in 1648?

  3. 300

    Cavalry from which khanate…

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  4. 400

    Which town in today's…

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  5. 500

    What 1649 agreement placed…

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Sea and Battle

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What was this light Cossack warboat, used for sea raids, called?

  2. 200

    Which sea did Cossack boats cross to raid Ottoman coastal towns?

  3. 300

    At which pictured fortress…

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  4. 400

    Which hetman led Cossacks…

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  5. 500

    These fortress walls stand…

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Culture and Memory

  1. 100

    Which lively Ukrainian dance began among the Zaporozhian Cossacks?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is the many-stringed Ukrainian instrument held by this musician?

  3. 300

    What were the travelling…

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  4. 400

    Which folk-art hero typically…

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  5. 500

    Which anonymous Cossack chronicle…

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