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Name that country! I came up with most of these questions while helping the plumber as he worked in our bathroom yesterday - use your time constructively! Below are my usual 21 questions, the answer for each one being a country in Eastern Europe sometime in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are no repeats, but not every country is represented! (Hey - only 21 questions, right?) Good luck -
1. Excluding the former Soviet Union, this country currently has half of Eastern Europe's population, at 40 million.
2. This country's first paved road was built in the 1950s.
3. This country absorbed thousands of people from Thrace and 1.3 million from Anatolia after World War I.
4. This country gets a bad rap, but its capital was once home to one of the most humanistic philosophers of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant.
5. This empire was famous for its bureaucracy, and in fact a writer would one day make a living writing about that bureaucracy (while living at 22 Zlaty/Gold Street). The British Empire ran all of India with fewer bureaucrats than this empire had in one city, Prague, alone. (Bonus point: Who was the writer?)
6. This country has the most phonetic alphabet for its language in all Europe.
7. This country's name means "Black Mountain". (Hint: In its own language it calls itself "Crna Gora", but it is known in the West by the Italian version of its name.)
8. This country was composed of two territories known to Romanians as Bessarabia and Bukovina.
9. Though this country is usually grouped with its southern neighbors, it is linguistically related to its northern neighbor. It also currently has the most successful economy in the former Soviet Union.
10. This country was the only country in World War II to be simultaneously at war with both the Allies, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. This country was also among the most successful at protecting its Jewish population during the war.
11. Hitler forced this country to declare its independence in Spring, 1939.
12. This country, composed of two ethnic groups, provided Lenin's private security guard in the Russian Civil War but later enthusiastically joined with the Nazis to fight against the Soviets in World War II.
13. This country has a multitude of ethnic groups, and was the focus of the 1913 Second Balkan War (though this country didn't exist yet). (Hint: IMRO.)
14. This country was neutral through most of World War II, declaring war against the Nazis only a week before the German surrender.
15. This country's capital was known for centuries by the German version of its name, Laibach.
16. This country had a powerful nationalist movement in the early 1970s, Matica Hrvatska, that provoked a major government repression.
17. This country has a long tradition of religious heresy, stretching back to its Christian days with Bogomilism. It continued that tradition with a new religion, until very recently...
18. This country was the only fully-functional democracy in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
19. Though this country's language was written in the Cyrillic alphabet until the mid-19th century, it is related to modern French and Italian.
20. This country was, along with Czechoslovakia, one of the earliest victims of Nazi Germany when Hitler demanded the port of Klaipeda.
21. Facing the inevitable Soviet invasion in 1944, this country successfully secretly smuggled its 1000-year old crown jewels out of the country to the American forces then in western Austria, and its national treasuries resided at Fort Knox in the U.S. until a thaw in relations prompted U.S. President Jimmy Carter to give them back in 1978.
Good luck folks!
Name that country! I came up with most of these questions while helping the plumber as he worked in our bathroom yesterday - use your time constructively! Below are my usual 21 questions, the answer for each one being a country in Eastern Europe sometime in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are no repeats, but not every country is represented! (Hey - only 21 questions, right?) Good luck -
1. Excluding the former Soviet Union, this country currently has half of Eastern Europe's population, at 40 million.
2. This country's first paved road was built in the 1950s.
3. This country absorbed thousands of people from Thrace and 1.3 million from Anatolia after World War I.
4. This country gets a bad rap, but its capital was once home to one of the most humanistic philosophers of the 18th century, Immanuel Kant.
5. This empire was famous for its bureaucracy, and in fact a writer would one day make a living writing about that bureaucracy (while living at 22 Zlaty/Gold Street). The British Empire ran all of India with fewer bureaucrats than this empire had in one city, Prague, alone. (Bonus point: Who was the writer?)
6. This country has the most phonetic alphabet for its language in all Europe.
7. This country's name means "Black Mountain". (Hint: In its own language it calls itself "Crna Gora", but it is known in the West by the Italian version of its name.)
8. This country was composed of two territories known to Romanians as Bessarabia and Bukovina.
9. Though this country is usually grouped with its southern neighbors, it is linguistically related to its northern neighbor. It also currently has the most successful economy in the former Soviet Union.
10. This country was the only country in World War II to be simultaneously at war with both the Allies, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. This country was also among the most successful at protecting its Jewish population during the war.
11. Hitler forced this country to declare its independence in Spring, 1939.
12. This country, composed of two ethnic groups, provided Lenin's private security guard in the Russian Civil War but later enthusiastically joined with the Nazis to fight against the Soviets in World War II.
13. This country has a multitude of ethnic groups, and was the focus of the 1913 Second Balkan War (though this country didn't exist yet). (Hint: IMRO.)
14. This country was neutral through most of World War II, declaring war against the Nazis only a week before the German surrender.
15. This country's capital was known for centuries by the German version of its name, Laibach.
16. This country had a powerful nationalist movement in the early 1970s, Matica Hrvatska, that provoked a major government repression.
17. This country has a long tradition of religious heresy, stretching back to its Christian days with Bogomilism. It continued that tradition with a new religion, until very recently...
18. This country was the only fully-functional democracy in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s.
19. Though this country's language was written in the Cyrillic alphabet until the mid-19th century, it is related to modern French and Italian.
20. This country was, along with Czechoslovakia, one of the earliest victims of Nazi Germany when Hitler demanded the port of Klaipeda.
21. Facing the inevitable Soviet invasion in 1944, this country successfully secretly smuggled its 1000-year old crown jewels out of the country to the American forces then in western Austria, and its national treasuries resided at Fort Knox in the U.S. until a thaw in relations prompted U.S. President Jimmy Carter to give them back in 1978.
Good luck folks!
