What is the nickname of the local football club "Dnipro"?
the ships
What was on this site before Katerynoslav was founded on the right bank of the Dnipro?
empty steppe with no settlement
a Turkish trading post
a Cossack settlement
a Polish bastion
In 1918, one unofficial name was proposed for the city, evoking Cossack history, but it never became official. What was it?
Kozakograd
Sicheslav
Kodak
Vilnohrad
Roughly how long is Dnipro's riverside embankment (набережна) - one of the longest continuous embankments in Europe?
60km
15km
23km
56km
The Menorah Center, opened in 2012, is recognised as one of the world's largest of what kind of building?
University campuses
Jewish community centres
Shopping malls
Office centers
Why was hotel Parus abandoned?
The funding stopped
It was dangerous to build it on its soil
Because the Soviet Union fell apart
There was a serious construction mistake
Dnipro has a big collection of Polovtsian stone sculptures from the Middle ages. What are they actually?
pagan idols
portraits of the rulers
tombstones
abstract art
Which of these famous writers is from Dnipro?
Mykola Kulish
Valerian Pidmohylny
Ostap Vyshnya
Mykola Khvylovy
Which of these famous novels is about Dnipro?
ʼНедуга', Є. Плужника
'Невеличка драма', В. Підмогильного
'На той бік', В. Винниченка
ʼБез ґрунтуʼ, В. Домонтовича
What was another use of 'Raketa' vacuum cleaner, which was produced in Dnipro? (except for vacuuming the floor)
paint walls or whitewash ceilings
There are a few bridges across the river in Dnipro, but when was the oldest opened?
1802
1911
1884
1930
There's a slang word in Dnipro, 'lenta'. What does it mean?
the main avenue
a local drink
a lecture at university
the embankment
What is Pivdenmash manufacturer famous for?
spacecraft and rockets
What popular household appliances were produced in Dnipro in the Soviet times?
Dnipro refrigerator, the Raketa vacuum cleaner, and the Orel cassette tape recorder
Dnipro is also famous for a unique profession of lotsmans. What did they do?
Dnipro’s lotsmans were skilled Dnipro River pilots who safely guided trading ships and rafts through the dangerous, rocky Dnipro River rapids in the past.
Dnipro has one of the shortest underground lines in the world. How many stations are there?
3
2
6
4
