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Super Surprise Mystery...
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 85%?

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 Bulgarian won most of their Olympic gold medals in?

What are weightlifting and wrestling?

300

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

Who is Orpheus?

300

This city is the birthplace of the iconic Garash Cake, first created in 1885.

What is RUSE?!!!!!

300

What are any three 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?

300

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

How much is 35 million lev?

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?

500

What are at least three 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 a Bulgarian tradition from UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage?

What is: Bistritsa Babi, Nestinarstvo, Chiprovtski carpetmaking, Surva fest (Kukeri), Visoko multipart singing, bagpipes/bagpipe playing, Martenitsa?

500

What religion did Bulgarian immigrant Victor Houteff found, eventually contributing to the 1993 Waco Siege?

Who are the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists? ("Branch Davidians")