Hello my dear friends, how are you? I decided to create this quiz for you so I can see if you know anything about my country and to give you some information about my beautiful country. Please, read each question and try to answer all questions first and then, read the feedback and the results :) I hope you’re going to like it..
1. Where is Serbia? (I refer which continent)
a. Europe
b. Asia
c. America
2. Is Croatian official language?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
3. Who is the man who reformed Serbian? (I refer: Serbian spelling)
a. Desanka Maksimović
b. Sveti Sava
c. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
4. What is the capital city?
Description: If we translate the name of the city, that would be "white city".
a. Jagodina
b. Beograd (Belgrade)
c. Novi Sad
5. Is Novak Đoković from Croatia?
Description: He is the best tennis player
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
6. Have Serbia ever won on the Eurosong?
Description: Eurosong is the longest running annual TV song competition, held primarily, amoung the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956
a. No
b. Yes
c. Maybe
7. Who is the person that got the Nobel's prize?
a. Milan Rakić
b. Bora Stanković
c. Ivo Andrić
8. Do people from Serbia use only Latin letters?
a. no
b. yes
c. maybe
9. Where is the monastery "Sopoćani"?
Description:
The translation of that city would be "new market" because "pazariti" is an ancient verb that in nowadays is almost never used and it means "to buy. In nowadays we use the verb "kupovati"
a. in Belgrade
b. in Valjevo
c. in Novi Pazar
10. What is the first Serbian TV series?
Description: This series is about the family Golubović (mother, father, son, son's wife and their 5 children) and it shows us how do they manage with their problems that they have.
a. Bela lađa (white ship)
b. Srećni ljudi (happy people)
c. Bolji život (better life)
FEEDBACK:
1. Serbia is located on the Balkan peninsula. It's near: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Italy
2. The official language is Serbian. However, every Serb speaks: Croatian, Montenegrin, Bosnian as well, because many years ago we spoke Serbo-Croatian language.
3. Sveti Sava was the first Serbian educator. Desanka Maksimović is our famous writer,so the correct answer is Vuk Stefanović Karadžić who did these reforms and that's how he made writing in Serbian much easier.
4. There are about 7 million people. It's the biggest city here in Serbia and it's a true metropolis. For people from other cities it's good because it offers so many opportunities for studying or maybe for work. For tourists, it's good because we have so many touristic places, monuments, parks, ... so you can never be bored.
5. Novak Đoković is from Belgrade, but he lives in Monaco. He started to play tennis when he was only 7 years old and he already knew he is going to be the best tennis player. He is married to Jelena Ristić-Đoković and he has a son called Stefan.
6. The winner was Marija Šerifović. She won in 2007 with the song "Molitva".
7. He got that prize in 1961 with the novel "Na drini ćuprija - the bridge on Drina". This novel was published in 1945 (for the first time)
8. In Serbia people use Cyrillic (that is the first letter) and Latin letters (people started to use them later). In the Serbian language there are 30 letters.
9. "Sopoćani" - an endowment of King of Serbia Stefan Uroš I that was built in the second half of the 13th century, near the source of the Raška river in the region of Ras, the centre of the Serbian medieval state. It is a designated World Heritage Site, added in 1979 with Stari Ras.
10. This series has been presented for three years (from 1993 to 1996) and it contains 70 episodes. The protagonists are: Bata Živojinović, Radmila Savićević, Tanja Bošković
RESULTS:
10 %- 35 % - You don't know too much.
35% - 50% - You know some things. I think you read or you heard something about Serbia. You should get more information about Serbia.
51% - 70% - Very good, but try to talk a bit more with Serbs, so you can get to know something more about the Serbian culture and habits.
71% - 100% - Excellent. Are your parents from Serbia? Have you ever lived in Serbia? You're so amazing!
