Ukrainian Science, Arts and Culture
Ukrainian Science, Arts and Culture
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- Which poet and painter, author of the collection Kobzar, is regarded as the national poet of Ukraine?
- Who won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine in 2004 with the song Wild Dances?
- Which song won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine in 2016?
- Which group won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine in 2022 in Turin?
- What is a vyshyvanka?
- What is a pysanka?
- What is the bandura, the traditional instrument of the Ukrainian kobzars?
- What is the hopak?
- In 2022 UNESCO added the culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking to which list?
- Petrykivka is a Ukrainian tradition recognised by UNESCO in 2013. What is it?
- In 2016 UNESCO inscribed a group of songs from the Dnipropetrovsk region on its list of intangible heritage needing safeguarding. What kind of songs?
- Who arranged the folk tune Shchedryk, the basis of the song known in English as Carol of the Bells?
- Which composer wrote the opera Taras Bulba and set many poems by Shevchenko to music?
- Which engineer, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first mass-produced helicopter in the United States?
- The Antonov An-225 Mriya, built in Kyiv, was known for what?
- Ilya Mechnikov, a scientist from the Kharkiv region, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908 for work on what?
- Which scientist, first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1918, developed the concept of the biosphere?
- Yuriy Kondratyuk, an engineer from Poltava, proposed which idea in the 1910s and 1920s that was later used in the Apollo missions?
- Which avant-garde painter of Kyiv origin created the Black Square in 1915?
- Maria Prymachenko, a folk artist from the Kyiv region, is best known for what?
- Which Ukrainian director made the silent film Earth in 1930?
- Who won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer?
- Which pole vaulter was the first to clear six metres, in 1985?
- Which Ukrainian footballer won the Ballon d'Or in 2004 while playing for AC Milan?
- In which two years did Dynamo Kyiv win the European Cup Winners' Cup?
- The brothers Vitali and Volodymyr Klitschko are known in which sport?
- The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, the Russian group Memorial and an organisation from which country?
- What are varenyky?
- What is Chicken Kyiv?
- What is the Kupala night, celebrated in the summer in Ukraine?
- What is kutia, the dish prepared for Christmas Eve in Ukraine?
- What is a rushnyk in Ukrainian tradition?
- Which Kyiv institute, founded in 1934, is known for research into welding?
- Which author, born in the Poltava region, wrote Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, a work set in a Ukrainian village but written in Russian?
- In 2002 which Ukrainian chess player became the FIDE World Champion at the age of eighteen?
- Which long wooden horn is a symbol of the Hutsuls of the Carpathians?
- Who was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, flying on the space shuttle Columbia in 1997?
- Which Ukrainian soprano, born in the Ternopil region, sang at La Scala and was admired by Puccini?