Not a big batch here, but I have to start somewhere and the thread that started me off wasn’t very long.
Questions
Which alliterative Scottish novelist wrote the “Lymond Chronicles”, “The House of Niccolo” and books about a portrait painter spy called Johnson Johnson? Her novel “Caprice and Rondo” was partly set in the Genoese city of Caffa, now known as Feodosia.
DOROTHY DUNNETT
The decision to murder Jews in the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev was made by which military governor born in Rottweil? This was the largest single massacre of the holocaust, occurring over two days.
KURT EBERHARD
The Babi Yar massacre was only surpassed in numbers by two others during World War II, including which 1941 massacre that occurred under Romanian control?
ODESSA
Along with Odessa the only World War II massacre to surpass the total numbers of Babi Yar, which ‘Aktion’ occurred in occupied Poland in 1943?
(AKTION) ERNTEFEST
Meaning something like ‘supreme council’, what is the two-word term for the unicameral parliament of Ukraine, meeting in a Kiev building that goes by the same name?
VERKHOVNA RADA
What double-barreled principality that existed from 1199 to 1253 was succeeded by a kingdom of the same name that was absorbed by Poland during the 14th century? Historically it is synonymous with the Kingdom of Ruthenia.
GALICIA-VOLHYNIA
Known by a two-word term, what is the alternative name of the Zaporizhian Host, a Ukrainian state that existed in the 17th and 18th centuries with part of its name being derived from the title of a general in the Zaporizhian Army?
COSSACK HETMANATE
Members including Russia, Switzerland and Estonia, but no longer Finland, which program of NATO with a three-word title did Ukraine join in 1994?
PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
The 2013 Euromaidan mass demonstrations that erupted across Ukraine led to what 2014 revolution, which led to a new government and pro-Russian unrest?
REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY
Sworn in as a member of the Ukrainian parliament in 2021, what did Vasyl Virastyuk win in 2004?
WORLD’S STRONGEST MAN
Which Ukrainian became World’s Strongest Man in 2020, the second from his nation after Vasyl Virustyuk in 2004?
OLEKSII NOVIKOV
Nicknamed ‘The Albatross’ and particularly known for his prowess with the Atlas Stones, which Scot won the World’s Strongest Man in 2021 and 2022, with Oleksii Novikov finishing third in the latter?
TOM STOLTMAN
The title featuring an animal that became a pet after being given away by Kiev Zoo to someone that could afford to look after it, what satirical novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov in set in the mid-1990s?
DEATH AND THE PENGUIN
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