1. Which mountain is at the Bulgarian border with Turkey?
A. The Stara Planina
B. The Osogovo
C. The Strandzha
2. Who won the 9 June snap elections?
A. GERB
B. CC-DB
C. Vazrazhdane
3. What is the speed limit in towns and villages in Bulgaria?
1. In Bulgaria were found the oldest...
A. Gold objects in the world
B. Chariots in the world
C. Tombs in the world
2. In 2024, how many Bulgarian beaches were Blue Flag-certified?
A. 10
B. 22
C. None
3. Via Pontica bird migratory route passes over...
A. The Black Sea
B. The Danube Plain
C. The Struma Valley
1. Bulgarians use which alphabet?
A. Cyrillic
B. Glagolitic
C. Latin
2. What salad is made with white cheese?
A. Snezhanka
B. Kyopoolu
C. Shopska
3. Which river flows north to south?
A. The Iskar
1. Bulgaria's longest cave is closed for tourists and is called...
A. Devil's Throat
B. Devetaki
C. Duhlata
2. Which town is named after a medieval Bulgarian ruler?
A. Omurtag
B. Sofia
C. Burgas
3. The Bulgarian version of polenta is called...
A. Mamaliga
B. Kachamak
C. Lyutenitsa
1. Bulgaria's national day is on...
A. 1 March
B. 3 March
C. 8 March
2. What is a traditional drink in Bulgaria?
A. Ayran
B. Latte macchiato
C. Apple cider
1. The lowest temperature in Bulgaria, -38.3ºC, has been measured in...
A. Petrich
B. Svilengrad
C. Tran
2. The Iskar Gorge is in which mountain range?
A. The Stara Planina
B. The Sakar
C. The Strandzha
3. The mummers dancing across Bulgaria before Lent are called...
A. Kratuni
B. Kukeri
C. Kokoshki
If you have stayed in Bulgaria for more than a week and have conversed with Bulgarians of a certain age beyond business transactions and polite small talk, you have probably heard them reminisce about something from their youth that you might find charming, mysterious and exciting, but hard to comprehend. It might have been something from the times of Communism, the period between 1944 and 1989, that despite its proximity in time and millions of living witnesses is getting increasingly mythologised.
Rory Miller's book Eyeball It: Village Culinary Adventures is a funny, warm and sometimes poignant exploration of rural Bulgarian life, and its food and people in the 2020s. On the pages of this semi-travelogue, semi-memoir and semi-cookbook you will encounter semi-abandoned villages in the northwest and the southeast. You will walk dusty streets, enter old kitchens that have changed little since the 1980s, and watch how the chicken for the soup is caught, killed and plucked.
Overcrowded, overdeveloped, simply put overwhelming: in summertime, Sozopol is the definition of a place you must avoid if you are looking for some semblance of tranquillity at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Off season, the town is more bearable, but reminders of the tourist industry are everywhere. In the picturesque old quarter, clinging to a narrow rocky peninsula, there is hardly a lane free from signs advertising rooms to let, or restaurants with plastic window frames closed for winter, or hip art galleries.
What happened in Bulgaria during the Second World War? The events, the major and minor political players and their decisions, the role that bad and good luck played in this country between 1939 and 1945 are often contradictory and hard to explain to outsiders – or to Bulgarians, for that matter. The country started the war being neutral. It became an ardent Nazi ally, but refused to declare war on the USSR. Instead, it declared a "symbolic" war on Britain and the United States. It kept most of the Jews under its jurisdiction from deportation to the death camps.