Slovakia - Exam
  • 1. What is the capital city of Slovakia?
A) Prague
B) Budapest
C) Bratislava
D) Vienna
  • 2. Which mountain range forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland?
A) Alps
B) Himalayas
C) Andes
D) Tatra Mountains
  • 3. Which river runs through Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia?
A) Nile
B) Danube
C) Seine
D) Thames
  • 4. Slovakia gained independence from which country in 1993?
A) Soviet Union
B) Germany
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Austria-Hungary
  • 5. What is the currency used in Slovakia?
A) Forint
B) Koruna
C) Euro
D) Pound Sterling
  • 6. Which mineral spring town in Slovakia is known for its thermal baths and spa resorts?
A) Baden-Baden
B) Zadar
C) Carlsbad
D) Piešťany
  • 7. Which traditional Slovak dish consists of potato dumplings with sheep cheese and bacon?
A) Wiener Schnitzel
B) Goulash
C) Bryndzové halušky
D) Pierogi
  • 8. Which historical castle is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Slovakia?
A) Prague Castle
B) Spiš Castle
C) Neuschwanstein Castle
D) Edinburgh Castle
  • 9. What is the national symbol of Slovakia?
A) Lion
B) Bear
C) Double Cross
D) Eagle
  • 10. What is the official name of Slovakia?
A) Slovakia Central Europe
B) The Slovak Republic
C) Kingdom of Slovakia
D) Republic of Bratislava
  • 11. Which country borders Slovakia to the north?
A) Ukraine
B) Poland
C) Hungary
D) Austria
  • 12. When did the Slavs arrive in present-day Slovakia?
A) 9th century
B) 8th century
C) 7th century
D) 5th and 6th centuries
  • 13. Which empire was established by the Slavs in the 7th century?
A) Principality of Nitra
B) Avar Khaganate
C) Samo's Empire
D) Great Moravia
  • 14. Into which kingdom was Slovakia integrated at the end of the 9th century?
A) Kingdom of Hungary
B) Great Moravia
C) Avar Khaganate
D) Principality of Nitra
  • 15. Who helped Slovakia recover after the Mongol invasion in 1241 and 1242?
A) Kingdom of Austria
B) Principality of Moravia
C) Hungarian king Béla IV
D) Ottoman Empire
  • 16. What was the Slovak Uprising in 1848?
A) Successful independence from Hungary
B) A movement for Slovak national identity
C) Part of the Hungarian wars of independence
D) A military campaign against Austria
  • 17. When was Czechoslovakia proclaimed?
A) 1939
B) 1848
C) 1945
D) 1918
  • 18. What treaty set the borders of Czechoslovakia in 1919?
A) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
B) Treaty of Saint Germain
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Treaty of Trianon
  • 19. What was the first Slovak Republic?
A) Part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
B) An independent democratic state
C) A Soviet-backed communist state
D) A one-party clerical fascist client state under Nazi Germany
  • 20. When did Slovakia become an independent democratic state?
A) January 1, 1993
B) 1945
C) 1989
D) 1918
  • 21. What type of economy does Slovakia have?
A) Command economy
B) Low-income subsistence economy
C) Advanced high-income market economy with a comprehensive social security system
D) Mixed economy without social security
  • 22. What is Slovakia's contribution to the world car manufacturing industry?
A) Largest producer of bicycles
B) Largest exporter of electric cars
C) Largest manufacturer of luxury cars
D) World's largest per-capita car producer
  • 23. Which international organizations is Slovakia a member of?
A) European Union, eurozone, Schengen Area, United Nations, NATO, CERN, OECD, WTO, Council of Europe, Visegrád Group, OSCE
B) NAFTA, Mercosur, CARICOM
C) BRICS, G20, African Union
D) ASEAN, OPEC, Arab League
  • 24. How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites are there in Slovakia?
A) Ten
B) Twelve
C) Eight
D) Five
  • 25. From which older form does 'Slovensko' stem?
A) Windische Lande
B) Sloven/Slovienin
C) Slavus
D) Gravettian
  • 26. Which language term for Slovakia appeared in medieval Latin sources?
A) Slovenčina
B) Windenland
C) Slavus
D) Slovák
  • 27. What is the Czech word that influenced the modern Slovak national name?
A) Slavonia
B) Slovák
C) Slovensko
D) Gravettian
  • 28. When was the present Slovak form 'Slovensko' first attested?
A) 1675
B) 1029
C) 1291
D) 16th century
  • 29. What technique was used to make the oldest surviving human artefacts in Slovakia?
A) Gravettian
B) Acheulean
C) Clactonian
D) Magdalenian
  • 30. Where were the earliest human tools found in Slovakia located?
A) In Bojnice
B) Near Gánovce
C) Near Piešťany
D) Near Nové Mesto nad Váhom
  • 31. What significant Neanderthal discovery was made near a village in northern Slovakia?
A) A female statue
B) Shell necklaces
C) A cranium dated to c. 200,000 BCE
D) Stone tools
  • 32. Which culture's vestiges were primarily found in river valleys and mountainous regions of Slovakia?
A) Clactonian
B) Gravettian
C) Magdalenian
D) Acheulean
  • 33. Which period do the Cypraca thermophile gastropods date back to?
A) Quaternary period
B) Tertiary period
C) Jurassic period
D) Cretaceous period
  • 34. Which culture is known for building strong and complex fortifications after the disappearance of the Čakany and Velatice cultures?
A) Lusatian people
B) Celtic tribes
C) Scytho-Thracian people
D) Kalenderberg culture
  • 35. What type of burial rite was common during the Hallstatt Period?
A) Inhumation
B) Mummification
C) Cremation
D) Sky burial
  • 36. Which culture's remnants, along with Celtic and Dacian influences, gave rise to the Púchov culture?
A) Čakany culture
B) Kalenderberg culture
C) Lusatian origin
D) Velatice culture
  • 37. Which tribe is often connected with the Púchov culture according to Roman sources?
A) Cotini
B) Lusatians
C) Scythians
D) Thracians
  • 38. What type of settlements did the Celts build in modern-day Bratislava and Devín during the La Tène Period?
A) Monumental burial mounds
B) Flat urnfield cemeteries
C) Hill-forts
D) Powerful oppida
  • 39. Which Roman outpost was located near the present-day Slovak-Hungarian border?
A) Laugaricio
B) Gerulata
C) Brigetio
D) Carnuntum
  • 40. What was the name of the settlement with a military fort and civilian vicus in present-day Rusovce?
A) Carnuntum
B) Laugaricio
C) Gerulata
D) Brigetio
  • 41. Who unified the Slavic tribes settled north of the Danube around 830?
A) Svätopluk I
B) Rastislav
C) Mojmír I
D) Árpád
  • 42. Who was the ruler that had the first known Christian church in present-day Slovakia consecrated by 828?
A) Samo
B) Rastislav
C) Pribina
D) Khagan Bayan I
  • 43. Who became Slovakia's first female president in 2019?
A) Peter Pellegrini
B) Iveta Radičová
C) Zuzana Čaputová
D) Andrej Kiska
  • 44. Which conference led to Czechoslovakia coming under Soviet influence?
A) The Treaty of Versailles.
B) The Yalta Conference in February 1945.
C) The Munich Agreement.
D) The Potsdam Conference.
  • 45. Which pact did Slovakia join on November 24, 1940?
A) The Treaty of Versailles
B) The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
C) The Tripartite Pact
D) The Atlantic Charter
  • 46. In which year did the Auxiliary of Legion II defeat the Quadi tribe?
A) 8 BCE
B) 2 CE
C) 6 BCE
D) 179 CE
  • 47. What is the total length of rivers on Slovak territory?
A) 49,774 kilometres (30,928 mi)
B) 60,000 kilometres (37,282 mi)
C) 25,000 kilometres (15,534 mi)
D) 39,000 kilometres (24,251 mi)
  • 48. When did Slovakia officially dissolve from the federation with Czech Republic?
A) 1 January 1993
B) 31 December 1992
C) 17 July 1992
D) 15 April 1993
  • 49. Who became Slovakia's Prime Minister for only six months in 2023?
A) Peter Pellegrini
B) Igor Matovič
C) Eduard Heger
D) Ľudovít Ódor
  • 50. What type of farms surrounded the military fort in Gerulata?
A) Quadi
B) Villa rustica
C) Cananefates
D) Marcomanni
  • 51. Which Byzantine Emperor did Rastislav ask to send teachers who would interpret Christianity in the Slavic vernacular?
A) Leo VI
B) Michael III
C) Justinian I
D) Constantine VII
  • 52. What is the primary geographical feature of Slovakia?
A) Plains
B) Coastlines
C) Mountainous nature
D) Deserts
  • 53. Which river forms a natural border with Hungary?
A) The Morava
B) The Ipeľ
C) The Hron
D) The Ondava
  • 54. What percentage of Slovakia's land surface is covered by forests?
A) 50%
B) 41%
C) 30%
D) 60%
  • 55. What was a significant political development in Slovakia at the end of 2022?
A) Eduard Heger's government collapsed after a lost no-confidence vote.
B) Energy crisis.
C) Adoption of the Euro.
D) Joining NATO.
  • 56. What was a significant event involving Prime Minister Robert Fico in May 2024?
A) Energy crisis.
B) He survived an assassination attempt.
C) Adoption of the Euro.
D) Joining NATO.
  • 57. When did Slovakia become a member of NATO?
A) 1 May 2004
B) 14 December 2000
C) 21 December 2007
D) 29 March 2004
  • 58. Which Roman outpost is located halfway between Vienna and Bratislava?
A) Laugaricio
B) Carnuntum
C) Gerulata
D) Brigetio
  • 59. Who became the first and only Slovak president to be re-elected?
A) Ivan Gašparovič
B) Zuzana Čaputová
C) Andrej Kiska
D) Robert Fico
  • 60. How many Czechoslovak civilians were killed during the 1968 invasion?
A) Approximately 1000 civilians lost their lives.
B) 137 Czechoslovak civilians were killed.
C) Over 500 civilians were killed.
D) No civilians were harmed during the invasion.
  • 61. Which agreement allowed ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland to join Germany in 1938?
A) The Munich Agreement
B) The Treaty of Versailles
C) The Treaty of Trianon
D) The Locarno Treaties
  • 62. Who became Slovakia's Prime Minister after the parliamentary election in 2023?
A) Igor Matovič
B) Robert Fico
C) Peter Pellegrini
D) Eduard Heger
  • 63. What event marked the decline of Avar power after 626?
A) Rise of Samo's empire
B) Arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius
C) Consecration of the first Christian church
D) Gradual decline lasting until 804
  • 64. Who replaced Vladimír Mečiar as Prime Minister after the 1998 parliamentary election?
A) Michal Kováč
B) Rudolf Schuster
C) Mikuláš Dzurinda
D) Vladimír Mečiar
  • 65. What percentage of Slovakia's territory is covered by forests?
A) 30%
B) 44%
C) 60%
D) 40%
  • 66. Who was the first President of the Slovak Republic?
A) Michal Kováč
B) Rudolf Schuster
C) Mikuláš Dzurinda
D) Vladimír Mečiar
  • 67. On what date did Slovakia become a party to the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity?
A) 19 May 1993
B) 25 August 1994
C) 1 January 2000
D) 2 November 1998
  • 68. What is the highest peak in the Low Tatras?
A) Gerlachovský štít
B) Ďumbier at 2,043 metres (6,703 ft)
C) Bystrá
D) Kriváň
  • 69. Which season in Slovakia is characterized by wet weather and wind?
A) Summer
B) Autumn
C) Spring
D) Winter
  • 70. Who became the fourth President of Slovakia in 2014?
A) Ivan Gašparovič
B) Zuzana Čaputová
C) Robert Fico
D) Andrej Kiska
  • 71. Which of the following rivers is the shortest in Slovakia?
A) The Váh
B) The Nitra
C) The Čierna voda
D) The Danube
  • 72. Who set up an independent ecclesiastical province in Great Moravia with Archbishop Methodius as its head?
A) Pope Urban II
B) Pope Leo IX
C) Pope John VIII
D) Pope Gregory VII
  • 73. What was the name of the winter camp near the northernmost line of the Roman hinterlands?
A) Carnuntum
B) Laugaricio
C) Brigetio
D) Gerulata
  • 74. What event marked the end of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia?
A) The Fall of the Berlin Wall
B) The Prague Spring
C) The Velvet Revolution
D) The Warsaw Pact Invasion
  • 75. What was the duration of the Avar Empire in the Carpathian Basin?
A) 250 years
B) 75 years
C) 300 years
D) 100 years
  • 76. What was Slovakia's 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score?
A) 3.0/10
B) 7.5/10
C) 4.34/10
D) 6.0/10
  • 77. What percentage of forest stands in Slovakia are broadleaf trees?
A) 70%
B) 60%
C) 40%
D) 50%
  • 78. Which Roman settlement's remains are found in Stupava?
A) Marcomanni
B) Quadi tribe
C) Cananefates
D) Roman buildings
  • 79. Which season in Slovakia lasts from 21 March to 20 June?
A) Summer
B) Spring
C) Winter
D) Autumn
  • 80. Who was Slovakia's first female Prime Minister?
A) Andrej Kiska
B) Peter Pellegrini
C) Iveta Radičová
D) Zuzana Čaputová
  • 81. What percentage of Czechoslovakia's population did the Czechs constitute during the 1930s?
A) 50%
B) 55%
C) 43%
D) 60%
  • 82. Which auxiliary cavalry unit was stationed at Gerulata?
A) Quadi tribe
B) Marcomanni
C) Legion II
D) Cananefates modelled unit
  • 83. Who was the U.S. Secretary of State that referred to Slovakia as 'a black hole in the heart of Europe'?
A) Colin Powell
B) Madeleine Albright
C) Condoleezza Rice
D) Hillary Clinton
  • 84. On what date did Slovakia declare itself a sovereign state in 1992?
A) 15 April 1993
B) 17 July 1992
C) 31 December 1992
D) 1 January 1993
  • 85. Who was the ruler of the Great Moravian Empire during the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius?
A) Duke Rastislav
B) Pribina
C) Samo
D) King Svätopluk I
  • 86. What was the religious affiliation of most Slovaks in the 17th century before the Counter-Reformation?
A) Catholicism
B) Orthodoxy
C) Lutheranism
D) Judaism
  • 87. What was one of the major issues Slovakia faced in the 1990s?
A) Organized crime
B) Famine
C) Civil war
D) Earthquakes
  • 88. What was the term used to describe Slovakia's period of economic and political challenges in the 1990s?
A) The Silver Era
B) The Velvet Decade
C) The Golden 90s
D) "Wild 90s" (Divoké 90.roky)
  • 89. Who was named the Bishop of Nitra by Pope John VIII?
A) Wiching
B) Rastislav
C) Methodius
D) Cyril
  • 90. Which part of the Tatra Mountains is closest to the Polish border?
A) Belianske Tatras
B) Western Tatras
C) Low Tatras
D) High Tatras
  • 91. What was the name of the Catholic hymnal in Slovak produced by Jesuit Benedikt Szöllősi?
A) Methodian Canticles
B) Glagolitic Hymns
C) Cantus Catholici
D) Slovak Psalter
  • 92. Which lowland area is the largest in Slovakia?
A) Carpathian Lowland
B) Tatra Lowland
C) Danubian Lowland
D) Eastern Slovak Lowland
  • 93. What was the result of the Battle of Pressburg in 907?
A) Both sides withdrew without a clear victor.
B) Bavarians defeated the Magyars.
C) The Magyars routed Bavarian armies.
D) A peace treaty was signed.
  • 94. What was the first Slavic alphabet developed by one of the missionaries?
A) Cyrillic script
B) Latin script
C) Glagolitic script
D) Greek script
  • 95. Which peak is the highest in the Western Tatras?
A) Ďumbier
B) Gerlachovský štít
C) Kriváň
D) Bystrá at 2,248 metres (7,375 ft)
  • 96. Which war led to the establishment of Thököly's kuruc rebels?
A) Thirty Years' War
B) Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664)
C) Hundred Years' War
D) War of Spanish Succession
  • 97. Who became Slovakia's sixth President in 2024?
A) Ivan Gašparovič
B) Andrej Kiska
C) Peter Pellegrini
D) Zuzana Čaputová
  • 98. Who led the revolution that caused the Slavic population to secede from the Avar Empire in 623?
A) Khagan Bayan I
B) Samo, a Frankish merchant
C) Pribina
D) Attila
  • 99. What was the center of Samo's empire in the seventh century?
A) Western Slovakia
B) Southern Slovakia
C) Eastern Slovakia
D) Northern Slovakia
  • 100. What was Czechoslovakia's stance on the Security Council measures during the Korean War?
A) Czechoslovakia abstained from voting on any resolutions.
B) They fully supported all Security Council measures.
C) Czechoslovak communist leaders considered the intervention against North Korean aggression illegal.
D) The country was not involved in discussions about the Korean War.
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