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Famous Ukrainians quiz — Ukraine: people & places

The “Famous Ukrainians” quiz — Ukraine: people & places. It has 25 questions in five categories: On the Page, Music and Voice, Art in View, Ideas and Inventions, Sporting Greats. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Famous Ukrainians

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.

On the Page

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which poet, pictured here, published the collection Kobzar?

  2. 200

    Which writer brought the forest spirit Mavka to the stage in The Forest Song?

  3. 300

    The novella Zakhar Berkut…

    In the game
  4. 400

    In Marusia Churai, a…

    In the game
  5. 500

    The film Shadows of…

    In the game

Music and Voice

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Carol of the Bells began as the Ukrainian Shchedryk. Which composer, pictured here, made its famous choral setting?

  2. 200

    Chervona Ruta sounds like a folk song, but one songwriter wrote both its tune and words. Who was he?

  3. 300

    The play Natalka Poltavka…

    In the game
  4. 400

    After a rough Milan…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which New York-born singer…

    In the game

Art in View

  1. 100

    Whose brightly colored imaginary beasts made her a celebrated Ukrainian folk artist?

  2. 200

    Flowers Behind the Wicker Fence is a lush floral painting by which self-taught Ukrainian artist?

  3. 300

    Which Kyiv painter made…

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  4. 400

    Which Kyiv-born sculptor used…

    In the game
  5. 500

    The 1918 Ukrainian 100-karbovanets…

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Ideas and Inventions

  1. 100

    Which Kyiv-born engineer built pioneering helicopters after emigrating to the United States?

  2. 200

    Which Ukrainian flew aboard NASA's shuttle Columbia in 1997?

  3. 300

    The bridge over Kyiv's…

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  4. 400

    Who won a 2022…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which Ukrainian computer scientist…

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Sporting Greats

  1. 100

    Which Ukrainian striker won the 2004 Ballon d'Or while playing for AC Milan?

  2. 200

    Before his professional world titles, which Ukrainian boxer won Olympic heavyweight gold in London in 2012?

  3. 300

    Who was the first…

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  4. 400

    At Paris 2024, which…

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  5. 500

    Which Ukrainian swimmer won…

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