Jeopardy! Style Romania Country Quiz

This current capital of Romania has been a national or territorial capital for over 360 years and, by city proper population, is one of the 10 most populous in Europe and the #1 most populous on the Balkan Peninsula

Sometimes cited as the 2nd-largest city in Romania, and the only city other than Bucharest to serve as capital of Romania in modern times, this city is home to the largest Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in the world. a Royal Botanical Gardens and a university with origins dating back to the 1640s that is sometimes ranked the best in Romania by some international authorities

One of the three capitals of the Principality of Transylvania (1570-1867), this city is home to a church completed in the 1440s that was the site of the investitures and elections of several Princes of Transylvania, and is also home to the largest university in Romania with approximately 50,000 students

One of the three capitals of the Principality of Transylvania (1570-1867), this city has a strong German heritage from which the current, ethnically Saxon, President of Romania (for nearly a decade) originates

One of the three capitals of the Principality of Transylvania (1570-1867), this city was where the treaty passing ownership of Transylvania from Hungary to Romania was signed after the end of World War I

This city was the capital of The Principality of Moldavia for over 150 years during the 14th-16th centuries and is the county seat of the county where both of the prior capitals of the Principality of Moldavia are located as well as being the county where the numerous Painted Churches of Moldavia, a UNESCO Heritage site, are located

This city was the capital of The Principality of Wallachia for over 200 years from the 15th to 17th centuries and was the site where Vlad Tepes ("Dracula") ascended the throne in 1456 and had the Chindia Tower built which has stood for about 550 years and remains a symbol of the city

This female gymnast is one of only 3 women ever, and the only Romanian, to win a World Championship or Olympic title on every individual apparatus, and was the last gymnast, male or female, to score a "Perfect 10" at an Olympics or World Championships

This gymnast is the only woman in history to defend successfully her Olympic title on the precarious Balance Beam apparatus

Born in Constanta, this tennis player won 2 Grand Slam championships in 2018 and 2019

Born in 1946 this tennis player won 2 Grand Slam singles championships in 1972 and 1973

This billionaire born in Brasov was a high-level tennis pro (winning a grand slam doubles match, once) during the 1960s and 1970s

This long-ruling dictator and wife, who were both executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989, while once reported reviled, has had a resurgence in popularity among the general populace of Romania in recent years

This Prince briefly united the Principalities of Moldavia, Transylvania, and Wallachia more than 250 years before the formation of the modern nation-state, and is often chosen by Romanians as the greatest Romanian in history

These two words mean "Romanian language" in the Romanian language

This specific set of Hungarian people numbering at least over 500,000, geographically isolated from Hungary within Romania, from among the 41 counties of Romania, constitutes an overwhelming majority in 2 neighboring Transylvanian counties and half the population of another neighboring county, and during the middle ages were the border guards for the Kingdom of Hungary against the Ottomans

This master of the "Pan Flute" musical instrument rescued it from obscurity, greatly expanded its range by 50%, and has sold countless millions of records worldwide

The Edict of this city in the 1560s, (incidentally the birthplace of one particular Romanian gymnast who bested all of her Soviet competitors, at a time when the Soviet gymnastics program was at its strongest, to win the coveted all-around European Championships title in Moscow), influentially handed down by a Hungarian King who changed religious affiliation multiple times, is pointed to by a number of Christians as a very important and unprecedented act of religous tolerance, possibly even being the birth of religious tolerance in Modern Western Civilization (You can type in either the Hungarian or Romanian name for this city)

This small but very scenic and well-preserved city was the birthplace of the individual who is the most famous Romanian worldwide

This Jewish Holocaust survivor and prominent academic specialist in Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity was lethally gunned down defending students at a mass shooting in the USA in 2007

This birth name of the person generally regarded as the most revered Romanian poet, whose relatively short life was within the 2nd half of the 19th century, sounds more Slavic than Latin

This sculptor born in Romania in 1876 is considered one of the most pre-eminent 20th century sculptors and one of the foremost pioneers of Modernism in Art

The coup d'etat by this leader is thought by many Romanian historians to have shortened World War II by as many as 6 months

The movie "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" won 3 awards, including the grand prize, at this world-famous film festival in 2007

Born in Romania in 1907, this polyglot religious scholar and American academic, who wrote extremely voluminously and whose theories about heirophanies have heavily influenced academic religious thought, was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy in the year following the Romanian Revolution

Since its inception in the mid 1960s, this largest company in Romania has produced over 10 million automobiles since the mid 1960s

This owner of a whopping 20 World and European Championship medals, including 5 individual and 2 team European gold medals, is probably the most decorated or successful female gymnast at the European and World level never to win an individual Olympic medal

This gymnast who, due to a very long career, won 4 World Championship gold medals each on Floor and Vault, helped defend the reputation of their country's tragically declining gymnatics program by, incidentally, winning their 4th European Championship Floor Exercise title, on home soil, a whole 16 years after their World Championship debut

This female gymnast who, due to a very long career, owns a whopping 23 Olympic, World Championship, and European Championship medals (11 of them gold), helped defend the reptutation of her country's tragically declining gymnastics program by winning her 5th European Championship Balance Beam title, on home soil, a whole 14 years after her World Championship debut

This currently competing professional bodybuilder from Ramnicu Valcea with at least 3 IFBB Titles as well as a top-5 place finish at "The Olympia" has a respectable 6-million-plus followers on Instagram as of May 2023, making him one of the very most popular fitness influencers on the planet