Lithuanian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

250 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

All 250 questions

  1. Which place completes this sentence about Kaunas? Between 1920 and 1939, when ______ was seized and became part of Poland, Kaunas served as the temporary capital of Lithuania.
  2. Which place completes this sentence about Jonava? A total of 2,108 people were executed by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian Self-Defence Units. 200 remaining Jews were kept prisoners at the…
  3. Which place completes the sentence? Between 1795 and 1802 it was included in the ______ Governorate.
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Kernavė? After World War II, the excavation works were restarted by ______ University in 1979, and then again by the Lithuanian Institute of History between 1…
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Rumšiškės? In 1385 Teutonic knights by returning from siege of ______ were attacked by Lithuanians who prevented their crossing of the river Nemunas.
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Trakai Island Castle? The ______ History Museum was established after the reconstruction.
  7. Which place completes this sentence about Trakai Island Castle? The expansion of the castle in the early 15th century marked the third phase of ______'s development.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Hill of Crosses? In May 2013, ______ District Municipality adopted rules regarding the placement of crosses.
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Kaunas Castle? The precise construction date of the first ______ Castle is unknown.
  10. Which place completes this sentence about Kaunas Castle? In any event, Kęstutis soon regained and rebuilt ______ Castle, but it remained a point of contention between Lithuanians and Teutonic Knights…
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Kaunas Fortress? In response to this vulnerability, defensive structures, including a brick castle in ______, were in place at various points on the Nemunas R…
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Palanga Amber Museum? Amber workshops appeared in ______ during the 17th century; guilds devoted to the material functioned in Brügge, Lübeck, Danzig, and Kön…
  13. Which place completes this sentence about Palanga Amber Museum? By the end of the 18th century ______ was the center of the Russian Empire's amber industry.
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Palanga Amber Museum? In the years preceding World War I about 2,000 kilograms of raw amber were processed in ______ annually.
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Curonian Spit? According to folk etymology for the name of ______ Municipality, there was a giantess girl named Neringa, who formed the Curonian Spit and help…
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Galvė? Approximately 361 hectares in size, it has 21 islands, with one of them housing ______ Island Castle.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Juodkrantė? A part of ______ municipality, Juodkrantė is the second largest settlement on Lithuania's part of the spit.
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Aukštaitija? The largest city located entirely within this region, ______, is considered to be the capital, though not in a political sense.
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Dzūkija? Traditionally, ______ is regarded as the capital of the region and largest city.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Dzūkija? Dzūkija was part of the Duchy of ______ and later Trakai Voivodeship from the 14th to late 18th century.
  21. Which place completes this sentence about Dzūkija? The same image was used for the coat of arms of ______ County, officially adopted in 2004.
  22. Which place completes this sentence about Suvalkija? The largest city located entirely within the region is ______, which is considered to be the capital, though not in a strict political sense.
  23. Which place completes this sentence about Lithuania Minor? The largest, oldest and historically most important cities are ______, Sovetsk and Chernyakhovsk.
  24. Complete the sentence about Kernavė with the correct year: In ______ Kernavė Archaeological Site was included into UNESCO World Heritage list.
  25. Complete the sentence about Šilutė with the correct year: A famous fish market was opened in Šilutė almost 500 years ago, when Georg Tallat purchased the inn together with the land and fishing rights…
  26. Complete the sentence about Šilutė with the correct year: From ______, a Lithuanian newspaper was issued in the settlement.
  27. Complete the sentence about Šilutė with the correct year: Following World War I, the town became part of Lithuania when it acquired the Klaipėda Region in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Šilutė with the correct year: The town was annexed by Nazi Germany in ______ when it reacquired the Memel Territory.
  29. Complete the sentence about Radviliškis with the correct year: In ______, King John III Sobieski granted the right of holding a market to it.
  30. Complete the sentence about Kretinga with the correct year: In ______, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz built the first wooden church in Kretinga and established a Benedictine monastery, which became a great suc…
  31. Complete the sentence about Kretinga with the correct year: In ______, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz announced that he would establish a new settlement next to the old village and would grant the new borough…
  32. Complete the sentence about Kretinga with the correct year: In ______, the Sapieha family gained control of the city; they changed its coat of arms to represent Saint Casimir.
  33. Complete the sentence about Kretinga with the correct year: In ______, the town came under the jurisdiction of the Massalski family.
  34. Complete the sentence about Kretinga with the correct year: Ignacy Jakub Massalski opened a university preparatory school in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Gargždai with the correct year: In the Teutonic Order partition act of ______, the town was mentioned as Garisda.
  36. Complete the sentence about Gargždai with the correct year: On 8 January ______, King Sigismund III Vasa granted Gargždai the privilege of trade and markets.
  37. Complete the sentence about Gargždai with the correct year: In ______, city rights and coat of arms were granted for Gargždai.
  38. Complete the sentence about Visaginas with the correct year: In ______, the city's coat of arms was confirmed by a decree of the President of Lithuania.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ignalina with the correct year: Even though there is archeological evidence that people lived in Ignalina area in the Stone Age, Ignalina was mentioned only in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Varėna with the correct year: In ______, the Germans operated the Dulag 112 prisoner-of-war camp in the town, before its relocation to Mołodeczno.
  41. Complete the sentence about Varėna with the correct year: On September 9, ______, all the Jews of the town of Varėna were collected in the local synagogue.
  42. Complete the sentence about Zarasai with the correct year: In ______, the town was renamed Novoalexandrovsk in honor of Tsar Nicholas I's son Alexander.
  43. Complete the sentence about Zarasai with the correct year: The current Lithuanian name Zarasai was adopted only in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Zarasai with the correct year: Zarasai manor was mentioned in written sources at the end of the 15th century and in ______ Zarasai was recorded as a small town.
  45. Complete the sentence about Zarasai with the correct year: In ______, Zarasai was marked on a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with the place-name written in Polish as Jeziorosa.
  46. Complete the sentence about Rokiškis with the correct year: Rokiškis was included in the Vilna Governorate, until ______ when the Zarasai County was transferred to the newly established Kovno Governor…
  47. Complete the sentence about Rokiškis with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the Imperial German army occupied the city.
  48. Complete the sentence about Rokiškis with the correct year: After the Soviet re-occupation of Lithuania in ______, the Lithuanian partisans fought with the Soviet Army in Rokiškis area.
  49. Complete the sentence about Biržai with the correct year: The Radziwiłłs lost their wealth and influence, and Biržai was sold to the Tyszkiewicz family to cover debts in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Pakruojis with the correct year: For a long time it was thought that the town was founded in ______, when the town and Pakruojis manor were mentioned in land ownership reco…
  51. Complete the sentence about Pakruojis with the correct year: On July 10, ______ the first church of Pakruojis had inaugural service in it new building.
  52. Complete the sentence about Pakruojis with the correct year: In ______ the oldest wooden synagogue of Pakruojis in Lithuania was built.
  53. Complete the sentence about Pakruojis with the correct year: In July and August, ______, German soldiers with the help of local white armbanders massacred a total of 400 Jews from Pakruojis district i…
  54. Complete the sentence about Raseiniai with the correct year: Raseiniai is one of the oldest communities in Lithuania – the name of the settlement was mentioned for the first time in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Raseiniai with the correct year: From ______ Raseiniai served as the permanent location of the county parliament.
  56. Complete the sentence about Tauragė with the correct year: First mentioned in ______, the town has been a center of Lutheranism in Lithuania.
  57. Complete the sentence about Tauragė with the correct year: In ______, as with almost all of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the town became part of the Russian Empire in the Third Partition.
  58. Complete the sentence about Tauragė with the correct year: Tsar Alexander I of Russia, signed an armistice with Napoleon I in Tauragė on 21 June ______, that was soon to be followed with the Treaties…
  59. Complete the sentence about Jurbarkas with the correct year: The town became an important road junction after a bridge was built over the Nemunas in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Jurbarkas with the correct year: The castle of Georgenburg was destroyed by the Grand Duke Vytautas in ______ and was never rebuilt.
  61. Complete the sentence about Jurbarkas with the correct year: In ______ Jurbarkas had about 600 inhabitants, small shops and inns, market place was present.
  62. Complete the sentence about Jurbarkas with the correct year: In ______ famous chronicler Maciej Stryjkowski became a church provost in Jurbarkas.
  63. Complete the sentence about Jurbarkas with the correct year: King Sigismund III Vasa granted Jurbarkas its Magdeburg rights in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Šakiai with the correct year: In ______, Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski approved the settlement of Jews.
  65. Complete the sentence about Šakiai with the correct year: In ______, it was granted Magdeburg rights by King Stanisław II August Poniatowski thanks to efforts of Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski.
  66. Complete the sentence about Šakiai with the correct year: The town was captured by insurgents of the January Uprising in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Vilkaviškis with the correct year: Until ______, the city had a large Jewish community, which was killed by the German military and their local collaborators.
  68. Complete the sentence about Vilkaviškis with the correct year: The city was granted city rights in ______ by the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, John II Casimir Vasa.
  69. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The coat of arms was granted by King Augustus II the Strong in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Vilkaviškis with the correct year: During the Kościuszko Uprising, in ______, it was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents and Prussian troops.
  71. Complete the sentence about Vilkaviškis with the correct year: In ______, the city was incorporated into the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw.
  72. Complete the sentence about Ukmergė with the correct year: The region began to adopt Christianity, along with the rest of Lithuania, in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Širvintos with the correct year: In ______, Širvintos was under the ownership of Mikalojus Kiška II, the Elder of Ukmergė.
  74. Complete the sentence about Širvintos with the correct year: In ______, in addition to the Catholic church, there was a synagogue.
  75. Complete the sentence about Širvintos with the correct year: Furthermore, in ______, three companies of the Russian Imperial Army were stationed in Širvintos.
  76. Complete the sentence about Kaišiadorys with the correct year: The city expanded when a railroad connecting Vilnius with Liepāja was built in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Kaišiadorys with the correct year: During the First World War, the town was occupied by the Germans in ______, and it became the capital of an administrative unit for the f…
  78. Complete the sentence about Kaišiadorys with the correct year: In ______ the first train departed from Kaišiadorys to Radviliškis.
  79. Complete the sentence about Pasvalys with the correct year: In ______, the Treaty of Pasvalys was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the Livonian War.
  80. Complete the sentence about Pasvalys with the correct year: After ______ Soviet mass deportations started again – the main target were farmers and their families.
  81. Complete the sentence about Pasvalys with the correct year: Since ______ partisans of Pasvalys district fought against Soviet occupants.
  82. Complete the sentence about Šilalė with the correct year: In July ______, 135 Jewish men from Šilalė were shot on a site in the Jewish cemetery.
  83. Complete the sentence about Šilalė with the correct year: In September ______, the Jewish women and children of Šilalė were shot in the Tūbinės forest.
  84. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______ Chełmno municipal rights were granted to Skuodas thanks to Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz who owned the city.
  85. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______, the town passed as a trousseau to the Sapieha family.
  86. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______, the municipal rights were changed to Magdeburg rights by Władysław IV Vasa.
  87. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______ Skuodas lost city rights and became just a border city with a customs.
  88. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______ present masonry Evangelical Lutheran Church was built.
  89. Complete the sentence about Skuodas with the correct year: In ______ the current Catholic Church was built using masonry of stone and bricks.
  90. Complete the sentence about Akmenė with the correct year: In ______ a privilege was granted by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old to build a town, named Dabikinė near te Dabikinė River.
  91. Complete the sentence about Akmenė with the correct year: In ______ Grand Duchess of Lithuania Anna Jagiellon founded a wooden church.
  92. Complete the sentence about Akmenė with the correct year: The city was devastated and burned down in ______ during the Swedish occupation after a nearby battle.
  93. Complete the sentence about Akmenė with the correct year: In ______ Akmenė city rights were reconfirmed and a coat of arms was granted.
  94. Complete the sentence about Akmenė with the correct year: The first mass migration of Jews followed the notorious May Laws of ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Joniškis with the correct year: The bishop of Vilnius, John of the Lithuanian Dukes baptized the locals and established a new parish on 23 February ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Joniškis with the correct year: In late ______, 148 Jewish men were shot near Joniškis in the nearby forest.
  97. Complete the sentence about Kelmė with the correct year: Kelmė was first mentioned in ______, the year that Kelmė's first church was built.
  98. Complete the sentence about Kelmė with the correct year: Most of the Jews in Kelmė rural district were murdered during a mass execution on 29 July ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Kelmė with the correct year: On 2 October ______, some Kelmė and Vaiguva Jews were murdered in Žagarė.
  100. Complete the sentence about Rietavas with the correct year: The town is famous for building the first power station to produce electricity in Lithuania in ______.

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