Ukraine: people & places
The “Ukrainian cinema” quiz — Ukraine: people & places. It has 25 questions in five categories: Silent Pioneers, Poetic Cinema, Animated Classics, Modern Breakthroughs, Studios & Stars. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
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.
In 1896, photographer Alfred Fedetskyi held Ukraine's first public film screening in which major eastern city?
In 1893, two years before the Lumière brothers, which Ukrainian inventor built an intermittent mechanism to project moving images?
Which state film organisation…
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Which 1965 visual masterpiece by Sergei Parajanov immortalised Hutsul folklore in the Carpathian Mountains?
At the 1965 Kyiv premiere of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, which dissident poet stood up to protest arrests of Ukrainian artists?
Which charismatic actor starred…
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Which comic Ukrainian animation series created by Volodymyr Dakhno follows the whimsical adventures of three Zaporozhian warriors named Gray, Oko, and Tur?
A strutting, smiling doctor from which Ukrainian animated comedy of the late 1980s became a worldwide viral internet meme set to phonk music?
Which 2023 animated fantasy…
In the gameWhich Kyiv studio, founded…
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Which harrowing 2023 documentary directed by Mstyslav Chernov won Ukraine its very first Academy Award in 2024?
Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's 2014 Cannes prizewinner The Tribe has no spoken dialogue and no subtitles. What language do its characters use?
In Antonio Lukich's comedy…
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In the gameWhich historic production facility on French Boulevard beside the Black Sea is one of the oldest film studios in Ukraine?
Which iconic stone staircase pictured here, above the Black Sea harbour, turns into a massive open-air cinema during the Odesa International Film Festival?
What did Oleksandr Dovzhenko…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.