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50 free Georgia (Country) trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Georgians call their country Sakartvelo, speak a language related to nothing else on Earth, write it in an alphabet of their own, and have been making wine in clay kvevri for about 8,000 years. The land of the Golden Fleece adopted Christianity in 337, had a Golden Age under a woman titled 'king of kings', was swallowed by the Russian Empire in 1801 and by the Red Army in 1921, and declared independence again in April 1991. This quiz covers the place from the Dmanisi hominins to the 2024 protests: Colchis and Iberia, Saint Nino and King Mirian, David the Builder and Tamar, the Treaty of Georgievsk, Stalin and Beria, the 1989 Tbilisi tragedy, the Rose Revolution and the Russo-Georgian War, plus the geography — Shkhara, Kazbek, the Rioni and Mtkvari — and the culture: khinkali and khachapuri, the tamada and the supra, polyphony on the Voyager record, rugby as national sport and Zaza Pachulia in the NBA. Early questions suit anyone who can find the country on a map; later ones ask for dates, peaks, treaties and the first country to say Sakartvelas. Fifty questions, every one sourced.
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Q 01What is the capital and largest city of Georgia?
Tbilisi
More than a third of the country's 3.9 million people live there.
Q 02Georgia lies on the east coast of which sea?
The Black Sea
Russia lies to the north, Turkey and Armenia to the south and Azerbaijan to the south-east.
Q 03What do Georgians call their own country?
Sakartvelo
It means 'land of Kartvelians'; Lithuania adopted 'Sakartvelas' officially in 2020.
Q 04Modern scholars derive the name 'Georgia' from a term in which language?
Persian
The ethnonym Gurj may relate to gurğān, 'land of wolves'; Saint George's popularity helped the name stick in Europe.
Q 05The Georgian language belongs to which family, unrelated to any other?
Kartvelian
Svan, Mingrelian and Laz are its relatives; nothing outside the Caucasus is.
Q 06The Dmanisi hominins found in Georgia are the oldest known in Eurasia — about how old?
1.8 million years
They are a subspecies of Homo erectus.
Q 07Georgia hosts the earliest known sites of what, dating to about 6000 BCE?
Winemaking
Settlements there also show the first use of fibres, more than 34,000 years ago.
Q 08Greek mythology placed the Golden Fleece in which ancient western Georgian kingdom?
Colchis
A wealthy kingdom traded with Greek colonies such as Phasis from the 14th century BC.
Q 09Which king adopted Christianity as the state religion of Iberia in 337?
Mirian III
The conversion followed the missionary work of Saint Nino of Cappadocia.
Q 10Which missionary from Cappadocia is credited with converting Iberia to Christianity?
Saint Nino
The Georgian Orthodox Church also claims apostolic foundation by Saint Andrew.
Q 11Which dynasty rose in the early 9th century and ruled Georgia for a thousand years?
The Bagrationi
Prince Ashot I used infighting among Arab governors to build its power in Tao-Klarjeti.
Q 12In which year was Bagrat III crowned the first King of a unified Georgia?
1010
He had already become King of Abkhazia in 978 and King of the Iberians in 1008.
Q 13Which two rulers' reigns define the Georgian Golden Age?
David IV and Tamar
Tamar was David's great-granddaughter; the age produced the national epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
Q 21Which event of 4–9 April 1989 discredited Soviet rule in Georgia?
Troops crushed a peaceful demonstration
Two years later to the day, on 9 April 1991, Georgia declared independence.
Q 22Which country was the first to recognise Georgia's independence, in August 1991?
Romania
Georgia had been the first non-Baltic Soviet republic to declare independence.
Q 23Which former Soviet foreign minister led Georgia from 1992 until 2003?
Eduard Shevardnadze
He was deposed in 2003 after a disputed parliamentary election.
Q 14At which 1121 battle did David IV crush much larger Turkish armies?
Didgori
He then abolished the Emirate of Tbilisi and made the city his capital.
Q 15What title was Queen Tamar given?
King of kings
Her 29-year reign, the first by a woman, is considered the most successful in Georgian history.
Q 16Which epic poem is considered Georgia's national epic?
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
Shota Rustaveli wrote it in the Golden Age; a 4,960 m peak bears his name.
Q 17Which 1783 treaty made eastern Georgia a Russian protectorate?
Georgievsk
Russia sent no help when Persia sacked the capital in 1795, then annexed the kingdom outright in 1801.
Q 18Which Georgian writer led the national revival movement of the late 19th century?
Ilia Chavchavadze
The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery organised by the Bolsheviks came in the instability that followed.
Q 19On what date in 1918 did Georgia declare independence from Russia?
26 May
The Democratic Republic became an ally of the German Empire and was one of the first in Europe to give women the vote.
Q 20The Red Army entered the Georgian capital and installed Soviet rule on 25 February of which year?
1921
Soviet Russia had recognised Georgian independence in the Treaty of Moscow only a year earlier.
Q 24The peaceful 2003 uprising that ousted Shevardnadze is known as what?
The Rose Revolution
Mikheil Saakashvili, Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burjanadze led it.
Q 25Which French president negotiated the ceasefire that ended the August 2008 war with Russia?
Nicolas Sarkozy
Russia recognised Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent two weeks later, on 26 August.
Q 26Which party's 2012 election win was Georgia's first peaceful electoral transfer of power?
Georgian Dream
Billionaire founder Bidzina Ivanishvili served as its first prime minister.
Q 27Who became Georgia's first woman president in full capacity, in 2018?
Salome Zourabichvili
It was the last direct presidential election; she later refused to recognise her 2024 successor.
Q 28In 2018 Georgia became the first former socialist state to legalise what?
Cannabis
The Constitutional Court ruled consumption was protected by the right to free personality.
Q 29What is the highest mountain in Georgia?
Shkhara
It rises 5,203 m; Kazbek, at 5,047 m, is the only volcanic peak among the giants.
Q 30Which mountains divide Georgia into its eastern and western halves?
The Likhi Range
Historically the west was Colchis and the eastern plateau Iberia.