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