1. What do Bulgarians celebrate on 6 May?
A. St George's Feast
B. Liberation
C. Independence
2. Where do you go for spa delights and Roman ruins?
A. Velingrad
B. Hisarya
C. Devin
3. Where is Bulgaria's Railway Museum?
A. Sofia
B. Plovdiv
C. Ruse
4. Which is Bulgaria's longest and deepest cave?
A. Devetashka Cave
B. Kolkina Dupka
C. Devil's Throat
5. Who was the founder of Bulgaria?
What happened in Bulgaria during the Second World War? The events, the major and minor political players and their decisions, the role that bad and good luck played in this country between 1939 and 1945 are often contradictory and hard to explain to outsiders – or to Bulgarians, for that matter. The country started the war being neutral. It became an ardent Nazi ally, but refused to declare war on the USSR. Instead, it declared a "symbolic" war on Britain and the United States. It kept most of the Jews under its jurisdiction from deportation to the death camps.
1. Which ancient people lived in what is now Bulgaria?
A. The Sumerians
B. The Thracians
C. The Hittites
2. How many countries does Bulgaria border with?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
3. Bulgaria's first ruler after 1878 was...
A. King Ferdinand
B. King Boris III
C. Prince Alexander of Battemberg
Voters are being exposed to a plethora of pledges designed to make them feel good – and cast their ballots for whoever talks louder. Significantly, pundits and publicists try to make their speech acts as concrete as possible, knowing the increasingly wary voters are not easily impressed by nice-sounding but meaningless niceties and empty commonplaces.
1. Bulgaria celebrates its liberation from the Ottomans on...
A. 1 March
B. 3 March
C. 8 March
2. Who is Bulgaria's commander-in-chief?
A. The president
B. The prime minister
C. The defence minister
3. Bulgaria has how many UNESCO World Heritage sites?
A. 3
B. 20
C. 9
"Pretty sure that was in Elden Ring" Musk wrote, possibly without knowing that the photographer, Vladislav Terziyski, had heavily manipulated his picture, and possibly without realising that difficult-to-pronounce Belogradchik was a real town in a real country outside George R. R. Martin's computer game.
Perushtitsa, now a small and offbeat town rarely visited by tourists, is known to every Bulgarian as the sight of a massacre in the failed April 1876 Uprising against the Ottomans. Thirty-two-year-old Ruth Koleva is a notorious jazz, soul and R&B singer who recently signed up with Warner Music. She spends most of her time outside Bulgaria where she has excellent career opportunities.
1. What does a traditional Bulgarian Christmas meal include?
A. Lamb
B. Pork
C. Turkey
2. For Alpine scenery you go to...
A. The Dobrudzha
B. The Black Sea coast
C. The Pirin
3. And for enjoying hot mineral springs, you visit...
A. Hisarya
B. Harmanli
Though Dead Souls used to be on the national school curriculum, few latterday Bulgarians, and possibly even fewer English speakers, have actually read it, so here is a short synopsis.
