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50 free Slovakia trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Forty-six questions on Slovakia, the mountainous heart of Central Europe that has been Great Moravia, Upper Hungary, half of Czechoslovakia and, since 1993, a country of its own. Geography covers Bratislava, the only capital bordering two other countries, the High Tatras and Gerlachovsky stit, the Vah and the Danube, nine national parks, UNESCO caves and the spa towns. History runs from Celtic Biatec coins and the Roman camp at Trencin, through Samo, Nitra, Great Moravia and Saints Cyril and Methodius, a thousand years inside the Kingdom of Hungary, Bratislava as Hungary's capital, Czechoslovakia in 1918, Tiso's clerical-fascist state and the deportation of the Jews, the Slovak National Uprising, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce, and the euro, NATO and EU. Culture and sport cover the double cross on the flag, bryndzove halusky and kapustnica, the fujara, Spis Castle and Banska Stiavnica, Andy Warhol's Rusyn roots, the 2002 hockey gold, Peter Sagan's three rainbow jerseys, the 2010 World Cup win over Italy and a car industry that builds more vehicles per person than any nation on Earth. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the country, its cities, history and people, and the sentence that establishes it is quoted under each explanation. Suits a pub quiz, a Central European history class or a Tatra hiking trip.
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Q 01Slovakia borders Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and which other country?
The Czech Republic
The two halves of former Czechoslovakia remain close allies and work with Hungary and Poland in the Visegrad Group.
Q 02Bratislava is the only national capital in the world with what geographic distinction?
Land borders with two other countries
It sits where Slovakia, Austria and Hungary meet; Vienna is only about 60 km away.
Q 03What is Slovakia's second-largest city, home to U.S. Steel's eastern plant?
Kosice
The steelworks is eastern Slovakia's biggest employer with 7,500 workers; Bratislava is by far the largest city.
Q 04What is the highest point in Slovakia, at 2,655 metres in the High Tatras?
Gerlachovsky stit
Krivan is the symbolic peak; the Tatras have 29 summits over 2,500 m and are the highest range of the Carpathians.
Q 05The Tatra range appears on Slovakia's coat of arms as one of how many hills?
Three
The double cross above them and the Pan-Slavic white, blue and red make up the flag; the arms are set toward the hoist.
Q 06What is the longest river lying within Slovakia, at 403 km?
The Vah
The Danube is the largest river to pass through but only 172 km of it lies on the Slovak border; the Vah separates the Tatras from the Low Tatras.
Q 07How many national parks does Slovakia have?
Nine
Tatra, Low Tatras, Slovak Paradise, Pieniny and Slovak Karst are among them, covering 6.5 percent of the land.
Q 08How many Slovak caves hold UNESCO World Heritage status?
Five
Dobsina Ice Cave, Domica, Gombasek, Jasovska and the Ochtinska Aragonite Cave; about 30 of the country's hundreds of caves are open to visitors.
Q 09Which two Byzantine missionary brothers arrived in Great Moravia in 863 and created a Slavic alphabet?
Cyril and Methodius
Cyril's Glagolitic and its successor Cyrillic spread to other Slavic lands; Methodius became archbishop of an independent province in 880.
Q 10Under which ruler did Great Moravia reach its greatest extent in the late 9th century?
Svatopluk I
He overthrew his uncle Rastislav in 870 and took the title of king; the empire crumbled after the Magyar victories near Bratislava in 907.
Q 11Slovakia's first known Christian church was consecrated by 828 for which prince of Nitra?
Pribina
Nitra later merged with Moravia into Great Moravia; Samo had ruled a 7th-century Slavic empire centred on western Slovakia.
Q 12What were the Celtic silver coins from Bratislava, bearing Slovakia's first known writing, called?
Biatecs
Their Latin-alphabet inscriptions predate the Romans' Danube outposts at Carnuntum and Brigetio.
Q 13A Roman inscription at Trencin records Legion II wintering at Laugaricio after defeating which Germanic tribe?
The Quadi
It marks the northernmost Roman presence in the region during the Marcomannic Wars.
Q 21Slovakia joined NATO and the European Union in the same year. Which?
2004
Schengen followed in 2007 and the euro in 2009; the OECD had admitted it in 2000.
Q 22Slovakia adopted the euro on 1 January 2009 at what rate to the koruna?
30.126 korunas
It was the 16th member of the eurozone; the economy had grown about 6 percent a year through the 2000s.
Q 23What world record in manufacturing did Slovakia first claim in 2007?
Most cars produced per capita
About 1.08 million cars rolled out in 2023 from four assembly plants; a fifth was under construction in 2024.
Q 14From the 11th century until 1918, the territory of Slovakia was an integral part of which state?
The Kingdom of Hungary
Known as Upper Hungary, it briefly fell to Boleslaus the Brave of Poland around 1001 and 1018.
Q 15Bratislava, then Pressburg, became the capital of Hungary in 1536 for what reason?
Ottoman expansion threatened Buda
Buda fell to the Turks in 1541 and Upper Hungary became a refuge for two-thirds of the Magyar nobility.
Q 16Czechoslovakia's independence was declared on 18 October 1918 by Masaryk, Benes and which Slovak?
Milan Rastislav Stefanik
They proclaimed it in Washington DC; the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 confirmed Slovakia's transfer from Hungary.
Q 17Who was president of the clerical-fascist Slovak Republic that allied with Nazi Germany from 1939?
Jozef Tiso
A Catholic priest, he was executed for collaboration in 1947; his state paid Germany 500 Reichsmarks for every Jew it deported.
Q 18The 1944 Slovak National Uprising was directed against the German invasion and what else?
The Tiso regime
Germans and collaborators destroyed 93 villages in the reprisals; the uprising is commemorated by a national holiday on 29 August.
Q 19Which Slovak communist led the 1968 Prague Spring liberalisation crushed by the Warsaw Pact?
Alexander Dubcek
137 civilians died in the invasion; a year later Czechoslovakia became a federation of Czech and Slovak republics.
Q 20The peaceful split of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993 is nicknamed what?
The Velvet Divorce
Prime ministers Vladimir Meciar and Vaclav Klaus negotiated it in autumn 1992 after 74 years of shared statehood.
Q 24Which carmaker's Bratislava plant builds the Touareg, Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne and Lamborghini Urus?
Volkswagen
Kia builds in Zilina, PSA in Trnava and Jaguar Land Rover in Nitra.
Q 25What share of Slovakia's electricity came from nuclear power in 2020?
54 percent
Plants at Jaslovske Bohunice and Mochovce; the third Mochovce unit in 2023 made the country self-sufficient again.
Q 26What is Slovakia's national dish?
Bryndzove halusky
Potato dumplings with sharp sheep's-milk bryndza cheese; kapustnica is sauerkraut soup and krvavnica a blood sausage.
Q 27Bryndza, the cheese at the heart of Slovak cooking, is made from what milk?
Sheep
Salty and strong-smelling, it also fills bryndzove pirohy dumplings.
Q 28Which Slovak folk instrument, a long overtone flute, is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list?
Fujara
Wooden pitchers called crpaks and decorated valaska hatchets are the other classic souvenirs.
Q 29Slovakia's national anthem 'Nad Tatrou sa blyska' takes its melody from what?
A folk song
The tune of 'Kopala studienku' underlies the anthem; the Vychodna festival is the biggest folklore gathering.
Q 30Which of these fortresses, one of the country's largest ruins, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Spis Castle
Bojnice is a film favourite, Orava hosted the 1922 Nosferatu and Cachtice was home to 'Bloody Lady' Elizabeth Bathory.