History
The oldest gold treasure in the world was discovered in this city.
Where is Varna?
This is the highest peak on the Balkan peninsula.
What is Musala?
The colors of the Bulgarian flag represent these three values.
What is peace (white), fertility/hope (green), and valor/bloodshed (red)?
This Bulgarian-Canadian actress is famous for her roles in the Vampire Diaries and Degrassi.
Who is Nina Dobrev?
Southern Bulgaria is part of this ancient region.
What is Thrace?
Name 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?
These four colors make up the Sofia metro line.
What are blue, green, red, yellow?
Name TWO cultural or natural UNESCO sites 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?
This rich Bulgarian dessert was invented by a chef at a Ruse hotel in 1885.
What is Garash Cake?
This US city has the largest Bulgarian diaspora in North America.
What is Chicago?
This mythical singer was said to be born in the Rhodope mountains.
Who is Orpheus?
These two Bulgarian cities have bridges to Romania.
What are Ruse and Vidin?
These two countries in Europe are the only ones with more archaelogical sites than Bulgaria.
What are Italy and Greece?
Bulgaria has won most of their Olympic gold medals in these two sports.
What are weightlifting and wrestling?
This unique tradition in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria involves barefoot firewalking.
What is Nestinarstvo (Anastenaria)?
Bulgaria became a full member of the European Union in this year.
2007
The first railway line in Bulgaria connected these two cities.
What is Varna and Ruse?
This song was sent into space on Voyager I and II in 1977.
What is “Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin” by Valya Balkanska?
This character is Hermione Granger’s Bulgarian love interest in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Who is Viktor Krum?
Ruse had this former name during the Ottoman period.
What is Ruschuk (Rusçuk)?
This ancient legend explains 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.
Name at least TWO of Sofia's former names.
What are Serdonopolis, Serdika, Triaditsa, Sredets?
This feature of Bulgarian folk music makes it different from most Western music.
What are asymmetric meters?
This Burgas-born actress was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Borat 2).
Who is Maria Bakalova?
This is the only other European country with more natural mineral springs than Bulgaria.
What is Iceland?