Vojislav Kostunica beat Slobodan Milosevic in elections in what year?

2000. Milosevic was then arrested.

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Eastern Europe - A Study of the East From The Baltic To The Aegean Seas

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An in-depth look at the Countries of Eastern Europe stretching from the Baltic to the Aegean & Black Seas

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1
Serbian leaders were the first Europeans convicted of what charge since the Nazis in the 1940s?
War-making without a permit
Terrorism
Mass Murder
Crimes against Humanity
2
What is the newest country in Europe?
Kosovo
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
3
What was the Soviet equivalent of the CIA? Vladimir Putin was an officer within it.
Perestroika
Gestapo
KGB
Stasi
4
Vladimir Lenin was the key figure in the creation of which Eastern Europe new state in 1917?
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Soviet Union
5
Which alphabet has more characters?
Cyrillic Alphabet
Latin Alphabet
6
The Adriatic coastal region of the Balkans gives its name to what breed of dog?
Dalmatian
Labrador
Bernese
Samoyed
7
What is the longest and largest river in Poland?
Vistula
Dnieper
Danube
Volga
8
What was the name of the 1st satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union?
Soyuz
Sputnik
Voskhod
Salyut
9
Which country split into SEVEN new countries in the 1990s?
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Yugoslavia
10
Who was the US President who was in office when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991 ?
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
11
The old cities of Buda and Pest were combined in order to form what country's modern capital?
Czech Republic
Hungary
Austria
Ukraine
12
What event allowed Americans and Soviets to go head-to-head in the midst of the Cold War?
Super Bowl
Olympics
Academy Awards
World Series
13
What composer wrote "The Nutcracker," "Swan Lake," and the "1812 Overture"?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
14
What region between Lithuania and Poland is owned by Russia, as a naval base on the Baltic Sea?
Kaliningrad
Caucasus
Kamchatka
Crimea
15
What former Soviet Socialist Republic did Russia invade, first in Crimea in 2014 and in an all-out invasion in 2022..?
Moldova
Romania
Ukraine
Belarus
16
Lech Walesa won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about democracy in what country?
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Bulgaria
17
In what year was the Berlin Wall torn down?
1991
1985
1989
1979
18
What mountain chain is the traditional boundary between the European and Asian parts of Russia?
Carpathian Mountains
Ural Mountains
Sudetes
Alps
19
What major German river then flows through the Balkans on its way to the Black Sea?
Rhine
Elbe
Vistula
Danube
20
Vojislav Kostunica beat Slobodan Milosevic in elections in what year?
1991. Milosevic was then arrested.
1989. Milosevic was then arrested.
2000. Milosevic was then arrested.
2007. Milosevic was then arrested.
21
Which country's dictator was the only one killed in the revolutions of 1989-91?
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Poland
22
The classical music piece, the "1812 Overture," celebrates Russia's defeat of what invader?
Vlad the Impaler
Genghis Khan
Napoleon
Charlemagne
23
What Soviet leader oversaw the collapse of the Communist Bloc and Soviet Union?
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev
24
Which Soviet cosmonaut was the first person in space?
Leonid Brezhnev
Vyacheslav Molotov
Yuri Gagarin
Vaclev Havel
25
What president of Russia desires to rebuild "greater Russia"(essentially the old Soviet Union)?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Dmitri Medvedev
26
The Catholic/Orthodox split generally coincided with the east-west split of what empire?
Roman
Ottoman
Russian
Greek
27
What was the name of the Soviet craft which linked up with Apollo in 1975 in the first example of Space cooperation..?
Sputnik
Mir
Soyuz
Vostok
28
Sofia is the capital of which Eastern European country.
Belarus
Bulgaria
Moldova
Roumania
29
West Slavic languages use what alphabet?
Latin
Cyrillic
Hieroglyphic
Greek
30
What is the name of the peninsula between the Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, and Black Sea?
Caucasus
Balkans
Scandinavia
Baltic States
31
What was the name of the program to rebuild Europe after World War 2?
Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Plan
MacArthur Plan
Stalin Plan
32
What capital of Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy?
Sparta
Athens
Thermopylae
Skopje
33
Great composers including Mozart and Beethoven found a home in what Austrian capital?
Prague
Vienna
Bratislava
Budapest
34
What branch of Christianity is the most common in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Balkans?
Catholicism
Orthodox
Protestantism
35
What ended the friendship between sports stars Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac?
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Berlin Wall
Steroid Use among Eastern European athletes
Yugoslav Civil War
36
The far-northern countries of Sweden, Norway, and Finland make up what sub-region?
Baltic States
Caucasus
Scandinavia
Balkans
37
Which country was not part of Yugoslavia?
Montenegro
Macedonia
Slovakia
Slovenia
38
What was the typical length of economic plans forced on Russia & the Soviet bloc by the Soviet leaders?
1 Year
30 Years
5 Years
10 years
39
What name is given to the series of protests/revolutions against Communist dictators in 1989-90?
Winter of Discontent
Summer of Countries
Autumn of Nations
Spring of Societies
40
What region on the Black Sea did Russia announce they had annexed in 2014?
Crimea
Siberia
Balkans
Kaliningrad
41
The Volga River empties into what body of water--east of the Black Sea?
Baltic Sea
Aegean Sea
Caspian Sea
East Sea
42
Which of these countries is not considered a leading producer of hockey talent?
Sweden
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Russia
43
What major mountain chain of Western Europe also extends into Austria and Slovenia?
Urals
Sudetes
Carpathians
Alps
44
The Velvet Revolution toppled the Communist dictator of what country?
Hungary
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
45
Like much of Northern Europe, what branch of Christianity is the most common in Scandinavia?
Orthodox
Catholicism
Protestantism
46
Which state of former Yugoslavia carried out the worst genocides in Europe since World War 2?
Serbia
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
47
Which crumbling country provided the highest quality competition for the 1992 Dream Team?
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Austria-Hungary
Soviet Union
48
The Soviets brutally crushed a democratic revolt in which country in 1956?
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
49
Because Eastern Europe was poorer than Western Europe in the 20th Century, it gained what name?
"The Third World"
"A World Enclosed"
"The Second World"
"The Enslaved World"
50
The Danube, the Don, and the Dnieper Rivers all flow into what body of water?
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
51
Islam's existence in the Balkans is a legacy of what Empire that ruled the region until WWI?
Byzantine
Mongol
Ottoman
Mughal
52
What German composer who lived mostly in Austria wrote "Ode to Joy," which is the E.U. anthem?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johann Strauss
Ludwig van Beethoven
53
What military alliance intervened in the Yugoslav Civil War to try to stop the genocides?
Warsaw Pact
Arab League
Commonwealth of Independent States
NATO
54
Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria & Hungary have all been major powers in Eastern Europe through past centuries.
False
True
55
Who were the main target of the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s?
Catholics
Orthodox Christians
Muslims
Jews
56
Sergei Korolev, the brains behind the early Soviet space success had his identity hidden behind name of "Chief Designer"
True
False
57
Who was the US President who opened the way for better relations with the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
58
What country split into FOURTEEN countries in the 1990s?
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Soviet Union
59
What Serbian leader of Yugoslavia violently tried to prevent the country from falling apart?
Drazen Petrovic
Slobodan Milosevic
Vladimir Putin
Vojislav Kostunica
60
What river flows through Russia and Ukraine on its way to the Black Sea?
Dnieper
Don
Vistula
Volga
61
What was "Stalin's Grass" or "Stalin's Lawn"?
Agricultural projects ordered by the Soviet dictator
Land mines along the border between Austria and Hungary
Steel spikes to harm people escaping East Berlin
Poor quality food provided to Eastern Europeans in the 1960s
62
By land area, Russia is the world's largest country. What is its capital?
St. Petersburg
Odessa
Moscow
Kiev
63
What body of water separates Scandinavia from the Baltic States?
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
64
In what year did the Soviet Union collapse?
1979
1985
1991
1989
65
"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." What Soviet dictator said this?
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Joseph Stalin
66
What branch of Christianity is the largest in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria?
Protestantism
Orthodox
Catholicism
67
Polish, Czech, Slovak and Serbian are in what language sub-group?
West Slavic
South Slavic
East Slavic
North Slavic
68
Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, and Toni Kukoc were the first big European stars in what sport?
Soccer
Basketball
Baseball
Hockey
69
In 2020-21 why did the name "Sputnik" return to the news headlines...?
The pilot of the first sputnik, Igor Titov, died aged 97
The Russians sent up a new Sputnik craft to celebrate its 65th anniversary
The Russians called their first anti-Covid vaccine by the name "Sputnik"
An old sputnik satellite crashed to earth causing major damage
70
Most languages of Eastern Europe are members of what family of languages?
Slavic
Uralic
Latin/Romance
Germanic
71
What river is known as the "National River of Russia"?
Dnieper
Vistula
Don
Volga
72
What is the longest river in Europe?
Vistula
Danube
Volga
Rhine
73
During the Cold War, what was the name of the secret police force in Communist East Germany?
NKVD
Stasi
KGB
Red Shirts
74
What body of water is east of the Balkans, separating it from the Caucasus?
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
75
What is a primary determining factor for what alphabet is used by South Slavic languages?
Personal Preference
Political Party
Religion
Economic Status
76
Which country was not part of Yugoslavia?
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Romania
77
What body of water is west of the Balkans, separating it from Italy?
Adriatic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
78
Sarajevo was the site of genocide in the 1990s. It is the capital of what modern country?
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
Serbia
79
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are member states of what sub-region?
Scandinavia
Baltic States
Balkans
Caucasus
80
Which country split into TWO new countries in 1993 in what became known as the "Velvet Divorce"...?
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Germany
Soviet Union
81
East Slavic languages use what alphabet?
Greek
Latin
Hieroglyphic
Cyrillic
82
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian are in what sub-group of languages?
North Slavic
South Slavic
East Slavic
West Slavic
83
Who was the 1st female in space?
Yelena Serova
Yelena Kondakova
Valentina Tereshkova
Svetlana Savitskaya
84
Nadia Comaneci was a star athlete who defected to the US in the Cold War.What sport was she in?
Gymnastics
Track and Field
Basketball
Tennis
85
The "Miracle on Ice" was a US hockey victory over the Soviets in which Olympics?
1980
1976
1984
1988
86
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Guard against American invasion
Prevent West Germans from coming to the East
Prevent people from leaving the Soviet zone of control
Decorate the edge of Soviet territory
87
What name did Winston Churchill give to the divide between east and west Europe?
Bamboo Curtain
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Veil of Secrecy
88
The "Eastern Bloc" name came out of what 20th Century event that shaped East European society?
World War I
The Cold War
The Space Race
The Race For Empires
89
Erich Honecker of what country seemed like the only one to not realize Communism was crumbling?
Soviet Union
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
90
Which country is NOT in the Balkans region?
Bulgaria
Germany
Serbia
Greece

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