American Takes an Eastern Europe Quiz.. (USA Doesn't Teach This)

[@orce]

Apart from what’s portrayed in American movies, countries in Eastern Europe, especially in recent years, are very beautiful and extremely safe to visit. The people are warm and welcoming, and English is often taught at school as a second language starting from kindergarten. This means younger generations are likely to speak or understand English, making it easier for foreigners to communicate and enjoy a hassle-free stay.

[@FlyXan]

Question 12: Francesco Illy (Illy Ferenc) was born in Temesvár (Timisoara in Romanian), which is now in Romania but he was an ethnic Hungarian on his father's side and German on his mother's, and the town belonged to the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of WWI. He was conscripted and fought on the Italian front and decided to stay in Trieste, where he got married and founded Illycafé.

[@metalbear1]

and whats more, after nearly 100 years the company is still owned by the Illy family!

[@tobasilinia]

the town belonged and will always belong to ROMANIA !!! As well as all of Transilvania / Ardeal !!! We are fed up of hungarians that claim territory over which they have no business of claiming and for which we fought and died for for over 1000 years since they anchored themselves in OUR neck of the woods !!

[@Csakbetksszmok]

but Rumanians say Jesus was also Rumanian Orthodox so I'm not surprised : )

[@vubevube]

Your Warszawa pronunciation is spot on!!!

[@PAINNN666]

Варшава

[@V0r4xiz]

Can confirm, it's on the dot. I would love to hear him try to learn some more capitals and their native pronunciations.

[@ChristopherJewels]

@@V0r4xiz Wroclaw is not a capital but took me a while to pronounce it correctly. Wien, Lisboa, Roma, Praga etc are a piece of cake compared to that.

[@mporvichova]

There are actually several different kinds of bagpipes. In Czech republic we also have our own version in the folk music (especially in Strakonice and Chodsko regions).

[@barkasz6066]

Yes and Hungary alone has like 5 regional varieties of bagpipe. Bagpipes are pan-European.

[@torstenwehnert8549]

Yea, but are they popular?

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Fascinating! Yes the difficulty here is that their spelling, changing borders and main origins are much harder to interpret! Easy starters, thanks to the Ukraine special operation news! I loved this quiz and your use of logic, the choices and visual clues - an excellent redo! In Tasmania, we had many former Eastern European neighbours and visitors! 🙋

[@TheXshot]

You should be able to try Barszcz (red beetroot soup) quite easily, since it's a very common Polish dish as well.

[@RYVRP3352]

I'm from Slovenia, we call it Boršč and I believe that soup is russian and I like that soup.

[@SilverionX]

@@RYVRP3352 The idea Borscht was Russian is so common Ukraine actually petitioned UNESCO to have it declared a national heritage dish or something like that since it is indeed Ukrainian.

[@0plp0]

@@RYVRP3352 Borscht comes from what is now Ukraine, but many countries in "Eastern Europe" have their own versions of this soup. In Poland itself there are several varieties of this soup made from different products.

[@f_bravo85]

Comgrats, you have your own Mercedes-Penz.

[@jattikuukunen]

that would be the plural

[@lydia5232]

As a European, I can say that your knowledge is much better than the average American. You think well and draw logical conclusions, which I really like.

[@susanbrown1983]

I got 18 right! 😊 I am an Aussie, 🇦🇺 I've lived in the States for 38 yrs and before that Europe for 13 yrs. I do a lot of these types of quizzes!

[@barkasz6066]

Lol these quizzes are hilariously wrong. Grouping Hungary, Czechia and Poland in Eastern Europe…. Well OK I guess, that is your typical Cold War sensibility. The European part of Russia + Belarus and Ukraine cover as large an area as all the way from Portugal to the German border. If you want to use a simple East-West geographical separator, Eastern Europe starts in the middle of Germany Rest of the questions: To show how Eastern European we are: we don’t even have borscht. I never had it, I have no idea what that is other than a soup. Based on the name I would have said “black pepper” because bors in Hungarian means black pepper. 😂 We do have bagpipes however. But then again literally everyone has bagpipes from Portugal to Korea. You could literally walk from Lisbon to Seoul to check how regional varieties change. Illy Ferenc was Hungarian. (Family name comes first in Hungarian) Thrace is literally on the Balkans, ymmw if you count the Balkans as Eastern Europe or its own thing. Prague is more to the West than Vienna. Never heard of the national library of Belarus.

[@cheman579]

Well if you google national library of Belarus you'll see it exists. Which means the quiz isn't wrong with that one, you're just salty you didn't know the answer lad how you gonna say the quiz is wrong cos you've never heard of the library 🤣🤣

[@V0r4xiz]

If Russia is Eastern Europe, then so is Estonia - and it has no red in its flag, either. Also, good job! You're becoming an expert on Europe! Pog

[@JandyCZ]

Czech here, I play bagpipes and it's truly not very known, but a good portion of countries (even west) has their name for the instrument and also unique-ish appearance (mostly heads and the bag itself, or they differ in sound), some of the countries even have more than one variation. In Czechia, there are ,,České dudy" and ,,Moravské gajdy" for example, where dudy are usually made of goat fur, are wooden and the head should be detailed goat head with horns and stuff while gajdy are more barebones, without much aesthetic.

[@begui2613]

This is so fascinating. I'm from the north west of Spain (Galicia) and here bagpipes are a traditional instrument, but it's not part of traditional music in the rest of the country (a lot of people actually hate them😂😂). Maybe that's why we only have one type and one word: gaita We have Celtic ancestry so I guess our bagpipes are more similar to the Scottish ones.

[@barkasz6066]

Bagpipes are a very simple and straightforward instrument if you think about it. There is hardly a country on Earth that doesn’t have one. Everyone south of the Arctic circle practically has one.

[@barkasz6066]

@@begui2613in Hungary we have like 5 regional varieties of bagpipes. The most common are called goat pipe and goat flute essentially. They are a fundamental instrument in like half of Hungarian folk music. I think it’d be harder to find a culture that has no bagpipes than ones that do.

[@begui2613]

@@barkasz6066 maybe I'm just uncultured, but I believe bagpipes are not really a thing in America or East Asia. I always thought they were more a European instrument 😅

[@bencze465]

I would have never guessed that question, i just think of scottish automatically, im hungarian and should have known of 'duda' but its like i heard of it and seen it on a picture once. funny

[@andreavoros-marky4203]

You and your family is an honorary European. 😄 You did great on the quiz. Good job! 🎉

[@michal_kalich]

he mentioned once having some czech ancestry and think irish as well

[@Pawel__M]

A great video, as usual. But remember, countries like Poland, Czechia, Hungary or Austria are CENTRAL Europe. If someone calls us EASTERN Europeans, we will think they are either ignorant or arrogant. Or both. :)

[@killkiss_son]

When you say eastern Europe and western Europe you're talking about the geopolitical side of the word, not the geographic only side of the word. Poland etc have the eastern European culture while France, Germany etc have a western European culture.

[@fffff2521]

According to UN those countries are eastern European.

[@katerinadlouha2196]

@@fffff2521 According to wiki its Central. And we who live here hate it when you call us eastern. Just google "central Europe".

[@tribin82]

@@fffff2521 i don't care what the UN says tbh, if the people concider themselves central its central.

[@werfault4076]

Or, how about we stick to using "North", "South", "West" and "East" when referring to/naming geographical stuff?

[@Bigginhillbilly]

There is a (Hungarian) komondor dog featured on the cover of Beck's Odelay album, worth a look! Nice video, cheers and happy new year!

[@basscharenborg6441]

this was a fun learning experience, thank you!

[@SquishyOfCinder]

Malta is literally near the southern point of southern europe

[@tribin82]

tbh when it comes to that part of europe even people from europe wouldnt necessarily know these answers. i got 5 or six wrong myself being from NL and i imagine many getting a lot more of em wrong so props for the good answers

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Everything from the Eastern German borders to Zakarpattia region of Ukraine is Central Europe. Eastern Europe starts from Carpathian mountains onwards

[@teddy98100]

The carpathian mountains are way more western then Ukraine.

[@simonvykoukal7668]

Praha stověžatá mentioned🔥🇨🇿

[@garbage2882]

In Poland we also have Barszcz (the soup made out of beetroot), but it's the Barszcz Czerwony (czerwony = red), we also have white which is also known as Żurek, completely different, but still a great soup.

[@yadiracamacho499]

There's bagpipes in several countries in Europe, not just Scotland. I grew up being tormented by the Galician "gaitas" XD

[@morbvsclz]

Big question is always what is considered Eastern Europe... I feel like should finally get away from defining it just by the historic influence spheres of the cold war era (= everything former Warsaw Pact is Eastern Europe). To me as German, I feel like Poland and Czechia for example are Central Europe, just like us. Otherwise Germany, Austria and Switzerland would be the only "Central European" Nations. Does not make much sense to me. I'd add Slovakia and Hungary as well. And geographically as well as historic (Early 20th century and before), it also makes a lot more sense that way imho.

[@freebozkurt9277]

actually only Bavaria and Baden-Wüttenber are in Central Europe and eg. Rhein Gebiet or Schleswig are definitely NOT Central European. On the same account Hungary, Slovenia and Transylvania and most of Croatia is also Central Europe (Dalmatia is not). I add North Italy too (approx to Milan but Torino not).

[@barkasz6066]

Central Europe is a grographical, cultural and historical area. The only part of Germany that might be considered Central European is Bavaria. Otherwise it’s Austria, Czechia, most of Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Veneto area of Italy, Croatia, Hungary, the former parts of Hungary like Transylvania in Romania and Voivodina in Serbia.

[@freebozkurt9277]

@@barkasz6066 More or less agree and this is also what I wrote. But I might count in Heidelberg etc. too.

[@thomasnox1141]

Eastern Germany should be Eastern Europe if we apply the some logic

[@freebozkurt9277]

@@thomasnox1141 Not really, especially the Baltic sea side with Hansa cities are Northern Europe. Up to Dresden and Leipzig might be considered Central Europe.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Kinda using the cold war definition of eastern Europe

[@fixipszikon6670]

That is Eastern Bloc, not Eastern Europe.

[@thomasnox1141]

@@fixipszikon6670the same.

[@Justforvisit]

If you want a truly deep and shocking insight to the USA's involvement in the afairs of eastern europe and the middle east, I highly recommend you "Volker Pispers - History of USA and Terrorism", it's available on KZbin as a 5-parter in german language but with very good subtitles.

[@walkir2662]

Question 6... Yeah, I distinctly remember being annoyed as a 5th grader that we had to buy a new atlas because they invalidated that and we couldn't just use last years *lol*

[@Pawel__M]

I hope the atlas I own will be valid next year, with Greenland still being a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, not the US, and Alaska being a part of the US, not Russia. xD

[@ChR0nos_7734]

Some facts: Canada is 2nd largest country by area Simona Halep jumped 500 places on WTA ranking after he had breast redaction surgery (from 34DD to 34C). She also looks like Kim Wexler (Rhea Seahorn) from Better Caul Saul Your pronunciation of Chisinau is almost perfect Francesco Illy was born in present day Romania, but was Hungarian. He founded Illycaffè S.p.A. in Italy where HQ is (in Trieste). He served at almost every front of the First World War including Battle of Isonzo and was awarded Austro-Hungarian Silver and Iron Cross of Merit, and in 1917 he was awarded the Bronze Bravery Medal, Karl Troop Cross and reached the rank of Sergeant. Seine flows through Paris, Thames flows through London.

[@tamaslukacs3173]

10 In the bagpipe ( hungarian duda) theme, search for the Bordó Sárkány band song's Legenda 17 A story about the Komondor dog. This is a large white-haired dog. When it lies down, it looks like a rug made of rags. It is peaceful, very alert, but if it senses an attack, it strongly protects its territory. While walking down the street with my friend, we discovered that there was a white rug in front of the front door of a house in a fenced yard. He remarked that he would never put a white rug in front of the door. I told him that it was a dog. He didn't believe it, so I asked him to shake the gate on the fence. The Komondor was there in an instant and barked loudly. He jumped backwards with a familiar white face...I won’t write down what he said.

[@jemimahgertrude590]

I love Komondors! They are by far my favourite breed of dog

[@ts05pro]

good vid as usual

[@ChristopherJewels]

16/21 here. Lived in Moldova for 2 months, Romania for 8 months, Bulgaria for 3 months.

[@yaonyaon9460]

We have bagpipes in Bulgaria too. I thought they were the national musical instrument of my country but it seems it was the kaval instead, lol. By the way, it seems we even have two types of bagpipes one that makes a higher-pitched clear sound and one that sounds lower and softer.

[@Mr1yla-v7x]

For car guys: We have Formula1 GP in Hungary every year since 1986 around 1st of August. The venue is fully re-buit this year.

[@dvgolf9915]

YOU DID REALLY REALLY GOOD!

[@KatarzynaAugusin]

Try Krakus red barszcz (dark blue box) a soft pure drink. Warm it up and goes well with everything: potatoes, steak, bread, noodles.

[@henrikkramli484]

Question 12 was incorrect; Ferenc Illy is a Hungarian man, maybe a Romanian citizen (I don't know that).

[@barkasz6066]

He was literally born in the Kingdom of Hungary and emigrated to Italy straight after WW1. He was never a Romanian citizen and never lived in Romania. To my knowledge his descendents no longer speak Hungarian.

[@Csakbetksszmok]

dude, Rumanians say Jesus was also Rumanian Orthodox so I'm not surprised : )

[@CiaraNíShúilleabháin1990]

I'm quite pleased that I, as an Irish person, got all of these right. Although, I am very interested in Slavic culture and history, so I wasn't too surprised.

[@fablb9006]

Bagpipes are very old traditional instruments that exist in all Europe, middle east and north Africa. It actually originate from the middle east thousands of yeast ago

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

Your story about buying most of your groceries from shops owned by people of Eastern European decent made me think of the movie 'An American Pickle' 😄 As a west-european, born and raised, I didn't do a whole lot better than you... only a few better because of having better geography lessons, I guess. Steffi Graff wiped away my feet. My dad, whose mother was born in what used to be DDR (East Germany) was one of the few west-european people who could easily roam behind the iron curtain, has told me stories about how he and my Dutch uncle (trucker) had a few trips into what used to be the Warsaw Pact (guess my uncle liked to have a co-pilot who was able to speak German fluently with an eastern dialect). When they were transporting western luxury goods, a couple of boxes were "lost" every time they crossed a border control... but that was already in the budget of the western companies... so the actual customers always got what they ordered 😄 I was only 8 when the iron curtain fell, so I didn't get to visit eastern Europe while it was still under soviet control, but I do remember going to Czechia and Poland before they became members of the EU, and I do remember the time when speaking German was more accepted than trying to get the border guards to speak English... since then, English has been accepted as the lingua franca in Europe, but it was an interesting time in the late 80's and early 90's... the French refused to speak anything but French... the Dutch and the Danes could figure out to communicate by using common English or German loan words. And Germany was still dubbing American movies, rather than subtitles. And this mess explains why I can basically watch German TV without noticing that it's not in Danish or English... and I only need subtitles now and then. I use German too rarely to be able to put a sentence together... but I understand it perfectly well.

[@ViktorFulop]

Wow, I live in Budapest but my grandfather born in South Bend, Indiana.

[@corjp]

Yo Ian... I am Dutch and I scored just like you. Not so bad, as when I went to school the solcalled "Iron curtain" was still in place so we never were taught much about the Eastern Europe as it was concidered as Russion territory.

[@horiamartis6657]

Very well done, sir ! I'm subscribing right now

[@butenbremer1965]

I, as a born and raised Western European (West Germany) during the Cold War had five questions answered incorrectly. Just like you, I haven't been to Eastern Europe myself before and most likely never will. There is simply no reason to feel bad about having missed eight!

[@ivanivanovic5586]

Eastern Europe is a charged term, many mistakenly use it, especially for west and south slavic countries(first are in central europe, second are in south-eastern. Of south slavs, only croatia vehemently insists it's part of central europe instead and shows itself in geography classes and maps as such). Interestingly enough, in balkans, we use "gaida" (or "gajde") to call the scottish style of bagpipe(which are always "dressed" in cloth), while the one we use is call "diple"(which are not "dressed", hence distinct color). Interesting quiz, correctly guessed a few things even without ever hearing of some(the movie in question 1 and the illy coffee brand).

[@saad-t7k]

You were good!

[@danvernier198]

At least this one wasn't riddled with errors like the west European quiz.

[@johnalmighty2052]

Your knowledge of Europe is exceptional. And by the way: Poland is located in Central Europe.

[@michalviktorin6758]

How could your asnwer to question 3 be wrong? Malta is close to Sicili. It is not eastern Europe.

[@TheDKcitizen]

I was wondering about that too.

[@icoborg]

the question was "not part of eastern europe"

[@michalviktorin6758]

@@icoborg And your point is? You make no sense.

[@godunclenick]

Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland are CENTRAL EUROPE!!!

[@fixipszikon6670]

so is Hungary.

[@godunclenick]

@@fixipszikon6670 fixed it

[@stevemcgowen]

Prague and CR are Central Europe...

[@fixipszikon6670]

so is Poland, Slovakia and Hungary FYI.

[@U030]

2:40 Ah yes. Mercedes-Benz’s sister company, Mercedes-Penz. (Of course as y’all know founded by mercedes’ father in collaboration with Karl Penz)

[@joknaepkens]

Congrats. Maybe there is still hope for America. The US could use (a lot!) more people like you. 👍

[@jacefromanotherworld]

8:08 actually we have two just Czech that was the first and the newest is Czechia. But most of us still goes by Czech

[@saad-t7k]

I wonder why they choose Czechia over Czesko. Czechia is not natural.

[@jacefromanotherworld]

@saad-t7k czesko would br hard to pronounce for most expect for polish 😂😂. But they could just leave Czech. But i think it was change to be easier for eng people to pronounce. Although now we sound similar to Chechnya🤣😅

[@stevemcgowen]

@@saad-t7k It's for non Czechs who can't pronounce Czech.

[@Pawel__M]

@@jacefromanotherworld "Czech" is an only an adjective, and rhe problem was that the English language didn't have the corresponding noun. As if there were no English term for "France", just "the French Republic".

[@jacefromanotherworld]

@@Pawel__M cool didn't know that (i mean the eng noun thing)

[@Zych.Grzegorz]

Balkans next?

[@verbatimdk]

can you feel a deference in the quality of the food you buy in the eastern EU store compared to the US stores.. regarding how is was processed etc?

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

You love Eastern/Central Europe because of Skoda, Trabant, and beer, my friend!! 😅

[@thorin1045]

often? the french and the british was often in state of war, these pairing barely existed at the same time.

[@JacobBax]

But that was not the question, France and England are not eastern countries.

[@barkasz6066]

@@JacobBaxRussia and Ukraine had one war basically, starting in 2014. That’s not “often”. There were no previous political entities before 1991 that could be identified as “Ukraine” and “Russia” to wage a war against one another.

[@thorin1045]

@@JacobBax i understand that you failed to understand the question in the quiz, just like failed to understand my post. often means multiple and/or regular. one war is not that, prior to that either one or both country did not existed, so they had no chance to be in war.

[@morthiumcz1204]

​@@JacobBax None of the options were answer to the quiestion in quistion :D

[@ruslan_riazantsev]

@@barkasz6066 You are so confident, yet so wrong: if you're interested to know more about the topic you can search for the "Ukrainian War of Independence" article in Wiki, so we have at least two wars between russia and Ukraine (or at least really close to the modern understanding of those countries), yet it doesn't mean those people didn't fight earlier, even though the names of the countries were different.

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

In northern Greece we have a gaida but not so much in the south...

[@SH-zg8zs]

I don't think there is anything to teach, it's just general knowledge, same with your clip from four days ago (European Knowledge Quiz). None of this was a topic in our school; it's something we just learn over time; it's general knowledge that we acquire when we go through life with our eyes and ears open and also open minded.

[@NenadTrajkovic]

11:59 It's true, Chicago is the largest Serbian city outside of Serbia...the second is New York Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates today, according to the old Julian calendar. Christ is born!

[@blechtic]

I almost missed the first question. I had trouble parsing it, because I couldn't believe it was that stupid.

[@Csakbetksszmok]

I failed only twice, but Illy Ferenc was never Rumanian : D but Rumanians say Jesus was also Rumanian Orthodox so I'm not surprised : ) greetings from Vienna, I hope we meet here once ; )

[@frixz5489]

11:58 I wonder where is this grocery store located.

[@psycho_bear]

Chechoromania))) This quiz was definitely made by Americans.

[@barkasz6066]

+1 to “Eastern Europe is not real” by Kraut

[@Lupi33z]

bagpipes was the only one I got wrong

[@blomsterfreak]

now we need a scandinavian quiz :D

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Danube usually pronounced in a lot of English speaking European countries as dan yoo

[@kmartyCZ]

"a lot of English speaking European countries".... eeee... so the only one country? 🙂

[@bencze465]

Prague question was weird, I would have sworn from the picture those buildings looked muslim or at least very slavic like eastern eastern... Sofia maybe... Prague really? wow.

[@janpf0624]

Igen. Így hívtuk/hívják, hogy: "stověžatá" - "száztornyú".

[@059metafrast]

Estonia does not have red on its flag. Or Estonia not counted as Eastern Eur? 😀

[@ChristopherJewels]

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are considered as the sub region of the Baltics.

[@m.m.6670]

None of the Baltics are in the quiz, I assume it's because we're classed as Northern Europe by the UN.

[@059metafrast]

@@ChristopherJewels And so? Some are considered as the subregion of the Balkans 😀

[@ChristopherJewels]

@@059metafrast The Balkans are a different region to the Baltics & ARE in eastern Europe.

[@sandrap.3399]

You rock!

[@DziAuKeR]

Check Dakar Rally and Lithuanians there, thnx dud

[@bagavondo2477]

i am into geography to extend...then malta...funny!

[@fixipszikon6670]

+1 question: Which listed Eastern European country in the questions actually is or was not an Eastern European country, but actually a Central European country? Select one. A: Hungary B: Poland C: Czechoslovakia D: Slovakia E: Czech Republic F: all of the above And the correct answer is: F - all of the above. Explanation: the map

[@robbypolter6689]

There is a small error in the quiz, the beetroot soup (borscht) cannot originally be attributed to Ukraine alone. She is also at home in Russia and Belarus.

[@ChristopherJewels]

Also Poland

[@DarkSailor7]

Borsch (original) comes from Ukraine, BUT each country makes it different. One puts specific meat while other puts more vegetables etc. (Not talking about Cold Soup )

[@ViktorFulop]

And Slovakia.

[@stevemcgowen]

Ruzzia just appropriates from everyone else. They didn't invent vodka or dumplings, either.

[@alfaomega129]

There are a lot of coments saing that some countries are not eastern europe :) if you want to know why we don't like it then type in yt: "Eastern Europe is not real" and the Kraut will explain it perfectly.

[@Ben-de6xe]

do balkans next

[@Diecastclassicist]

Good job, I did about the same.

[@EasyGameEh]

7:09 martin is the least russian name of these four. the quiz is pretty silly overall, imo

[@KatarzynaAugusin]

Weird questions some

[@JacobBax]

Question 13 (often in a state of war) was strange, Ukraine and Russia are at was now, but in the past it wasn't that often.

[@kittz0r]

1: :) 2: :) 3: :) 4: :) 5: :) 6: :) 7: :) 8: :) 9: :) 10: :( 11: :) 12: :( 13: :) 14: :) 15: :) 16: :) 17: :) 18: :) 19: :) 20: :) 21: :) not too bad but also not that hard even with most of it not being taught in school (Germany, 95-2006 ).

[@andyt8216]

How on earth can Malta be in Eastern Europe?

[@Csakbetksszmok]

is it?

[@LearnwithPipo]

So in this quiz you have only 3 country from Eastern Europe, all others are not part of Eastern Europe ;)

[@prjw73]

Hey, not bad at all considering that this was a quiz about a European region that is not on your radar.

[@Yandarval]

18/21. Not bad for a Brit.

[@Terji]

im northern european and i got 6 wrong

[@CatzHoek]

I heard you mispronounce Danube a couple of times recently. It's is pronounced more like Dan-yoube with the "you" sound. It's already the english name for it.

[@marceelino]

Do the American quiz now :)

[@Lupi33z]

well you should find Eastern Europe fascinating given it seems to be where most of the federal government money is going lately

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Got 17/21

[@invisiblelathatatlan]

CENTRAL EUROPE: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland

[@barkasz6066]

Switzerland and Germany are Western Europe

[@mdrlz]

faulty quiz

[@LednacekZ]

True or false: Many of the countries mentioned in the quiz are not Eastern Europe.

[@helenastevic1975]

eeu quiz but zero yugoslavian countries, lol

[@michaelgrabner8977]

Actually - geographically - Eastern Europe is just solely Russia, Belarus und Middle + Eastern Ukraine..... and that´s it = therefore an "Eastern Europe Quiz" in order to be accurate + legit can only solely ask questions about those 3 countries, not more and not less while Western Ukraine is - geographically - in Central Europe. Also the North West of Romania, and the North of Serbia is in geographical Central Europe while the rest of those 2 countries is - geographically in - "South-East Europe" - as like as Greece, Bulgaria, Moldavia and the Balkan States Albania, Bosnia, Monte Negro, North Macedonia The - political - classification to refer to countries as like Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania as "Eastern Europe" is since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 totally obsolet for now 36 years = almost 4 decades = and therefore is that - political classification from the past - in 2025 totally wrong. Even more so due to the fact that those mentioned countries are all members of the EU which is as a whole - politically - part of "the political Western World"

[@zlukabober8366]

Kyiv

[@cnikkor]

The flag one is interesting, because in 1871 when the German states got united under 1 Flag by Bismarck the choice for the new flag became Prussia (Black + White) and the most common color among all the other states in the union (called "German Empire") which was also red. So the flag became from top to bottom: Black White Red, as it turns out, red is a very popular color for flags

[@domiiinik4320]

The whole quiz is wrong, because it recognizes certain countries as Eastern European when they are not

[@bananenmusli2769]

They didn't say what their definition of Eastern Europe is. For example the last question with the flag was weird because Estonia doesn't have red and could be considered Eastern Europe.

[@MarkAZ001]

No it is correct, provided you draw the line with the Warsaw Pact and NATO areas.

[@agneag]

Shut up what wrong with you guys being historically identified as eastern european just LET GO!!!

[@agneag]

Btw i am lithuanian and proundly Eastern European

[@saad-t7k]

WE Czechs belong to the eastern Europe according to OSN. Sad, embarrassing, but true.

[@AzenHawke1995]

you should check eastern europe cuisine, since in my opinion it's better than western europe cuisine

[@fixipszikon6670]

Nah. Pizza and pasta rulez.

[@AzenHawke1995]

@fixipszikon6670 they do rule but some other foods are just hitting better

[@petrissmalga1993]

Please my friend react Bruce Wilson Scania content in USA. 😅

[@gyorgydocsa8683]

Nr. 12 is wrong, Illy Ferenc was born in Temesvár (now Timisoara, Romania), but he was hungarian, so actually there were no correct answer :)

[@Csakbetksszmok]

but you know, Rumanians say Jesus was also Rumanian Orthodox so I'm not surprised : )

[@Csakbetksszmok]

and they have better CIA connections