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60 free Czech Republic trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Czech Republic trivia quiz covers Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia from Great Moravia and Good King Wenceslas to the Hussites, the defenestrations, Charles IV's Prague, the Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce. It also gets into what Czechs gave the world: the pilsner, the word robot, the sugar cube, soft contact lenses, Semtex, Škoda, Dvořák and Smetana, Kafka and Kundera, Navratilova and Jágr. The first questions suit anyone who has crossed the Charles Bridge; the last ones test people who know which Olympic treble Zátopek pulled off and how many bones hang in the Sedlec chandelier. Every question is multiple choice with a short explanation after you answer. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01The landlocked Czech Republic borders Germany, Slovakia and which two other countries?
Austria and Poland
Austria and Poland: Austria lies along the southern border and Poland along the north-east, with Germany to the west and north-west and Slovakia to the east.
Q 02By what short name did the Czech foreign ministry recommend the country be called in English?
Czechia
Czechia was registered with the United Nations as the official short name in 2016; the EU, NATO and Google Maps adopted it, while 'Czech Republic' remained in common use.
Q 03The peaceful 1993 split of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia is nicknamed what?
The Velvet Divorce
The Velvet Divorce took effect on 1 January 1993, dissolving the federation by agreement between Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar without a referendum.
Q 04The 1989 events that ended communist rule in the country are known as what?
The Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution began with a student march on 17 November 1989; within six weeks the Communist Party had surrendered its monopoly on power.
Q 05Which playwright and dissident became the first president of the Czech Republic?
Václav Havel
Václav Havel, jailed under the communists for his dissident writing, was Czechoslovakia's last president from 1989 and the Czech Republic's first from 1993; Prague's airport was renamed for him in 2012.
Q 06The Czech Republic holds which world record related to beer?
Highest consumption per person
Highest consumption per person: Czechs drank well over 120 litres of beer each per year through the 2010s and led the world ranking for decades from the early 1990s.
Q 07The world's first pale lager was brewed in 1842 in which Czech city?
Plzeň
Plzeň: the Burghers' Brewery there produced Pilsner Urquell in October 1842, the golden lager copied so widely that 'pils' became a style; Asahi bought the brewery in 2017.
Q 08The Czech brewery Budweiser Budvar has fought a century-long trademark battle with which company?
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch, the American maker of Budweiser, has contested the name since the early 1900s; the Czech beer is therefore sold as Czechvar in the United States and Canada.
Q 09The country is traditionally divided into three historical lands: Bohemia, Moravia and which other?
Czech Silesia
Czech Silesia, the region around Opava in the north-east, is the small southern fringe of historic Silesia, most of which lies across the northern border.
Q 10The word 'robot' was introduced to the world by which Czech writer's 1920 play R.U.R.?
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. premiered in 1921; the word comes from robota, forced labour, and Čapek credited his brother Josef, a painter, with suggesting it.
Q 11The 1618 Defenestration of Prague, in which two royal governors were thrown from a window, sparked which war?
The Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War began with this Bohemian revolt against Habsburg rule; the Protestant rebels' defeat at White Mountain in 1620 followed, and the wider war ran until 1648.
Q 12The victims of the 1618 defenestration survived a fall of roughly how far?
21 metres
21 metres, about 70 feet, from a window of the Bohemian Chancellery in Prague Castle; Catholics credited angels, while Protestants said the men landed on a dung heap.
Q 13Charles University, the first university in Central Europe, was founded in which year?
1348
Q 21Under the Treaty of Versailles, Czechoslovakia got a 99-year lease on docks in which port city?
Hamburg
Hamburg: the 30,000-square-metre Moldauhafen plot on the Elbe was leased to Czechoslovakia for 99 years from 1929 under Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles, running to 2028.
Q 22The Czech Republic joined the European Union in which year?
2004
2004: the Czech Republic joined the EU on 1 May that year in the bloc's largest single enlargement, having entered NATO on 12 March 1999.
Q 23Which Moravian city is home to Palacký University, founded in 1573 as the country's second oldest?
Olomouc
Olomouc, the historic capital of Moravia, gained its university in 1573; the city also has a UNESCO-listed Holy Trinity Column completed in 1754.
1348: Charles IV, King of Bohemia, founded it by charter on 7 April that year; it was the first university in Central Europe, and its oldest college, the Carolinum, dates from 1366.
Q 14Charles Bridge in Prague crosses which river?
Vltava
Vltava, also known as the Moldau, is the country's longest river; the stone bridge begun under Charles IV in 1357 was Prague's only crossing until 1841.
Q 15The mechanical clock and astronomical dial of Prague's Orloj date to which year?
1410
It was built by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and mathematician Jan Šindel, and first recorded on 9 October 1410.
Q 16Per Guinness World Records, the hilltop seat of Czech presidents in Prague is the world's largest what?
Ancient castle
Ancient castle is the Guinness category: Prague Castle, begun around 880, covers almost 70,000 square metres and stretches about 570 metres from end to end.
Q 17The 1968 Prague Spring was crushed by an invasion of forces from which alliance?
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact: on the night of 20–21 August 1968 Soviet-led troops, with Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian units, occupied Czechoslovakia and ended Alexander Dubček's reforms.
Q 18Czechoslovakia added a blue triangle to its flag in 1920 because the white-over-red design matched which country's?
Poland
Poland's flag is the same white-over-red bicolour, so Czechoslovakia added the blue wedge in 1920; the Czech Republic kept that flag after the 1993 split.
Q 19What is the currency of the Czech Republic?
Koruna
Koruna, the Czech crown (CZK), replaced the Czechoslovak koruna in 1993; under its EU accession treaty the country committed to adopting the euro without a fixed date.
Q 20The country's highest peak, Sněžka, rises to about what height?
1,603 m
1,603 m: Sněžka, in the Krkonoše or Giant Mountains on the northern border, has a summit weather station and a chapel of St Lawrence completed in 1681.
Q 24Which composer wrote the 'New World' Symphony while directing a conservatory in New York?
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák directed the National Conservatory in New York from 1892 to 1895, writing the symphony in 1893 and his 'American' quartet that summer in Spillville, Iowa.
Q 25Smetana's symphonic cycle Má vlast has a title meaning what?
My Fatherland
My Fatherland, also rendered My Homeland or My Country, is a set of six symphonic poems written between 1874 and 1879; the first, Vyšehrad, evokes the old castle rock above Prague.
Q 26The author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial was born in Prague in 1883 and wrote in which language?
German
Franz Kafka came from a German-speaking Jewish family in what was then the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Q 27Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, went into exile in which country in 1975?
France
France: Kundera settled in Rennes and then Paris in 1975, lost his Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979, became French in 1981 and regained Czech citizenship in 2019.
Q 28Czech-born Martina Navratilova holds the record for Wimbledon singles titles with how many?
Nine
Nine: she won Wimbledon in 1978 and 1979, six straight from 1982 to 1987, and a ninth in 1990, breaking Helen Wills Moody's record of eight.
Q 29Emil Zátopek is the only person to win which three events at a single Olympics, in Helsinki in 1952?
5,000 m, 10,000 m and marathon
5,000 m, 10,000 m and marathon: Zátopek won all three at Helsinki 1952, entering the marathon at the last minute despite never having run one before.
Q 30Věra Čáslavská was the first gymnast to achieve what across her Olympic career?
Won Olympic gold in every individual event
Won Olympic gold in every individual event: all-around, vault and beam at Tokyo 1964, plus bars and floor at Mexico City 1968, for seven individual golds in all.