Ukraine: people & places
The “Poltava and Chernihiv lands” quiz — Ukraine: people & places. It has 25 questions in five categories: Land and Water, Streets and Stone, Hetmans and Princes, Books and Film, Taste and Craft. 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.
Follow the river from Chernihiv towards its meeting with the Dnipro near Kyiv. Which river are you on?
Poltava looks down on the valley of which river?
A short trip from…
In the gameWhere in Chernihiv region…
In the gameMyrhorod, a spa town…
In the game
What is the semicircular colonnade pictured on Poltava's Ivan Hill, built in 1909 for the 200th anniversary of the battle, called?
At what historic promenade in Chernihiv do visitors pass a row of old fortress cannons?
Eight streets radiate like…
In the gameThe monk who founded…
In the gameBegun under Prince Mstyslav…
In the gameThe heritage reserve called 'Hetman Capital' occupies which town in today's Chernihiv region?
Which pictured hetman was the Ukrainian ally of Charles XII in the Great Northern War?
Kyivan Rus' princes met…
In the gameFor which last hetman…
In the gameIn the village of…
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Which pictured Poltava-born playwright created Natalka Poltavka, a landmark of Ukrainian theatre?
Virgil's wandering Trojans become boisterous Ukrainian Cossacks in which late-eighteenth-century poem?
Which writer, with his…
In the gameWhich pictured writer, author…
In the gameWhich filmmaker born in…
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What are the boiled pieces of dough pictured here, a signature dish of Poltava, called?
Which vegetable does Nizhyn famously pickle and even honour with a monument?
A visitor seeking Ukraine's…
In the gameWhich village near Myrhorod…
In the gameWhich Poltava-region town is…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.