Ukraine: people & places
The “Ukrainian inventors and firsts” quiz — Ukraine: people & places. It has 25 questions in five categories: Flight and Orbit, Medical Firsts, Built by Ingenuity, Code Goes Global, Ideas in Science. 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.
The Antonov An-225 was nicknamed Mriya in Ukrainian. What does that word mean in English?
Which Kyiv-born designer built the VS-300, a prototype of the modern helicopter, after moving to the United States?
Which NASA shuttle carried…
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In the gameWhich Poltava-born engineer described…
In the gameThe Kyiv clinic founded by surgeon Mykola Amosov specializes in operations on which organ?
A vaccine pioneer born in Odesa developed a plague vaccine in India. Which disease had he already targeted in Paris?
In 1933, surgeon Yurii…
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Before electric lighting, a Lviv pharmacy developed a lamp that burned fuel refined from crude oil. What was the fuel?
Kyiv's 1953 bridge honoring welding engineer Yevhen Paton crosses which major river?
In 1880, Poltava-born Fedir…
In the gameWhich inventor born in…
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In the gameJan Koum, who was born in Ukraine, co-founded which messaging app used in group chats around the world?
Three Ukrainian founders launched a writing assistant in 2009. What is it called?
Which online payments company…
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In the gameWhich Ukrainian computer scientist…
In the gameWhich word, championed by the first president of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences, means Earth's life-filled zone?
A glass tube made by physicist Ivan Puluj produced images of bones using what radiation?
Physicist George Gamow, born…
In the gameWhich Kyiv-born mathematician won…
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