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100

Where was the oldest gold treasure in the world discovered?

Where is Varna?

100

What is the highest peak on the Balkan peninsula?

What is Musala?

100

What do the colors of the Bulgarian flag represent?

What is peace (white), fertility/hope (green), and valor/bloodshed (red)?

100

How much of the world’s rose oil does Bulgaria produce?

How much is ~75%?

100

What ancient region is Southern Bulgaria part of?

What is Thrace?

200

What are three modern day countries that were once part of the First Bulgarian Empire?

What are Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine?

200

What colors are the Sofia metro lines?

What are blue, green, red, yellow?

200

What is distinctive about Bulgarian folk music in comparison to Western music?

What are asymmetric meters?

200

What two sports has Bulgaria won most of their Olympic gold medals in?

What are weightlifting and wrestling?

200

What US city has the largest Bulgarian diaspora?

What is Chicago?

300

What mythical singer was said to be born in the Rhodope mountains?

Who is Orpheus?

300

What two cities share a bridge with Romania?

What is Ruse and Vidin?

300

What are the only two countries in Europe with more archaelogical sites than Bulgaria?

What are Italy and Greece?

300

How much (in lev) was loaned to Bulgaria to complete the yellow brick road in Sofia?

How much is 35 million lev?

300

What is the only other European country with more natural mineral springs than Bulgaria?

What is Iceland?

400

What is the legend behind the formation of the Rhodope mountains?

What is: Rhodope married Haemus, king of Thrace, and became queen. She and Haemus had a good marriage that led to them becoming arrogant and insolent against the gods. Eventually they started referring to themselves as Zeus and Hera, the names of the highest of the gods. As punishment the gods turned them both into icy peaks; Haemus became the Haemus Mons (the modern Balkan Mountains, after which the peninsula is named), while Rhodope became the Rhodopes.

400

The first railway line in Bulgaria connected these two cities. 

What is Varna and Ruse?

400

What song was sent into space on Voyager I and II in 1977?

What is “Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin” by Valya Balkanska?

400

Who is Hermione Granger’s Bulgarian love interest in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

Who is Viktor Krum?

400

Who is the actor that plays Hermione Granger’s Bulgarian love interest in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

Who is Stanislav Yanevski?

500

What are at least two former names of Plovdiv?

What are Kendrissia (Kendros), Eumolpia (Eumolpeida), Philippopolis, Filibe, Trimontium, Flavia, Ulpia, Neocor, Metropol, Pulpudeva, Puldin?

500

What are at least two of Sofia’s former names?

What are Serdonopolis, Serdika, Triaditsa, Sredets?

500

What is one cultural or natural UNESCO site located in Bulgaria?

What are: Boyana Church, Madara Rider, Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak, Rock Hewn Churches of Ivanovo, Rila Monastery, Ancient City of Nessebar, Srebarna Nature Reserve, Pirin National Park, Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari, Beech forests?

500

Which Bulgarian-American actress is famous for her roles in the Vampire Diaries and Degrassi?

Who is Nina Dobrev?

500

What unique tradition in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria involves barefoot firewalking?

What is Nestinarstvo (Anastenaria)?

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