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Kyivan Rus quiz — History

The “Kyivan Rus” quiz — History. It has 25 questions in five categories: Rulers Who Shaped Rus, A Walk Through Kyiv, Rivers and Riches, Words and Laws, Europe and After. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

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Buzzo quiz: Kyivan Rus

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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.

Rulers Who Shaped Rus

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    Which prince made Christianity the official faith of Rus’ in the late tenth century?

  2. 200

    Which Kyiv ruler helped turn the customs of Rus’ into a written law code?

  3. 300

    Which princess replaced dangerous…

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  4. 400

    Which campaigning prince hoped…

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  5. 500

    Which prince wrote an…

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A Walk Through Kyiv

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which pictured Kyiv cathedral still holds an exceptional set of 11th-century mosaics and frescoes?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What was the pictured fortified entrance to medieval Kyiv, with a church above its passage, called?

  3. 300

    Which pictured Kyiv monastery…

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  4. 400

    Which lower-city neighbourhood was…

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  5. 500

    What is the name…

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Rivers and Riches

  1. 100

    Which river carried merchants past Kyiv towards the Black Sea?

  2. 200

    What did the people of Rus’ call the Scandinavian traders and warriors arriving by river?

  3. 300

    Which empire, ruled from…

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  4. 400

    What is the word…

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  5. 500

    What name linked a…

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Words and Laws

  1. 100

    Which alphabet appears in most surviving manuscripts from Rus’ and still writes Ukrainian today?

  2. 200

    What was the Rus’ law collection that set money fines for offences called?

  3. 300

    Which chronicle opens by…

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  4. 400

    What late-12th-century epic tells…

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  5. 500

    Who wrote the “Sermon…

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Europe and After

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which invading people captured Kyiv in 1240?

  2. 200

    Which princess from Kyiv married Henry I and became queen of France?

  3. 300

    After the Battle of…

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  4. 400

    Which western Rus’ state…

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  5. 500

    Which Rus’ ruler accepted…

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