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