History
Where was the oldest gold treasure in the world discovered?
Where is Varna?
What is the highest peak on the Balkan Peninsula? (The highest point in the Balkan peninsula)
What is Musala?
What do the colors of the Bulgarian flag represent?
What is peace (white), fertility/hope (green), and valor (courage)/bloodshed (red)?
How much of the world’s rose oil does Bulgaria produce? (About how many percent?)
How much is ~75%?
What is the name of the ancient region Southern Bulgaria is a part of?
What is Thrace?
What are three modern day countries (separate countries today) 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?
What colors are the Sofia metro lines? Name at least two (there are 4 total).
What are blue, green, red, yellow?
What is special (different) about Bulgarian folk music in comparison to Western music? (Hint: it is a special word to describe the music)
What are asymmetric meters?
Team Bulgaria has won many Olympic medals. What are the two top sports that bring home the most medals?
What are weightlifting and wrestling?
Which US city has the largest Bulgarian diaspora? (Diaspora: a community of people who moved to a new country, like America, from the same place, like Bulgaria.)
What is Chicago?
Who is the mythical singer who was born in the Rhodope mountains?
Who is Orpheus?
What two cities in Bulgaria are connected with Romania by bridges?
What is Ruse and Vidin?
What are the only two countries in Europe with more archaeological sites than Bulgaria? (Physical remains, like castles, bridges, or houses, of the people who lived in the area in the past)
What are Italy and Greece?
How much (in lev) was loaned to Bulgaria to complete the yellow brick road in Sofia?
How much is 35 million lev?
What is the only other European country with more natural mineral springs than Bulgaria?
What is Iceland?
What is the legend (story that people tell) about how the Rhodope mountains were born?
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.
The first railway line in Bulgaria connected these two cities. Which city and which city?
What is Varna and Ruse?
What song was sent into space on Voyager I and II in 1977?
What is “Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin” by Valya Balkanska?
What is the name of Hermione Granger’s Bulgarian love interest in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Who is Viktor Krum?
What is the ACTOR's name that plays Hermione Granger’s Bulgarian love interest in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Who is Stanislav Yanevski?
What are some old names for Plovdiv? Name at least two.
What are Kendrissia (Kendros), Eumolpia (Eumolpeida), Philippopolis, Filibe, Trimontium, Flavia, Ulpia, Neocor, Metropol, Pulpudeva, Puldin?
What are some old names for Sofia? Name at least two.
What are Serdonopolis, Serdika, Triaditsa, Sredets?
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?
Which Bulgarian-American actress is famous for her roles in the Vampire Diaries and Degrassi?
Who is Nina Dobrev?
What unique tradition in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria involves barefoot firewalking? (In Bulgarian or Greek)
What is Nestinarstvo (Anastenaria)?