Belarus: Geography, Culture, and Society Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute, Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices.

Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising.

only five people have been decorated Hero of Belarus, the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus.

the 17th century Biaroza monastery in Biaroza, Belarus, has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town.

the first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian.

romanization of Belarusian, the transliteration of Belarusian-language text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet, is distinct from writing in Łacinka, the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus.

Kapyl, a town in modern Belarus, was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574.

Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941.

Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript.

Anatoly Malofeyev was a first secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union era and Belarusian parliament speaker.

Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship.

Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus.

Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale.

Belarus: Geography, Culture, and Society Quiz

1 How many square miles is Belarus in area?

2 What is the native name for Belarus?

3 Which is the largest city in Belarus?

4 What are people from Belarus known as?

5 What is the national anthem of Belarus?

6 The currency of Belarus is the ________ (BYR).

7 Groups such as the ________ (OSCE) declared the election "un-free" because of the opposition parties' poor results and media bias in favor of the government.

8 Belarus has historically leaned to different religions, mostly Orthodox, ________ (mostly in western regions), different denominations of Protestantism (especially during the time of union with Protestant Sweden).

9 The population density of Belarus: How many people are there per square kilometre?

10 Belarus has increased cooperation with ________, strengthened by the visit of President Lukashenko to China in October 2005.

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