Question: What religion was Armenian paganism influenced by?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: When did Armenia make Christianity its official religion?
Answer: AD 301

Question: Why did Armenia make Christianity its official religion?
Answer: in defiance of the Sassanids

Question: Who invented the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Mesrop Mashtots

Question: When did Armenia become a sovereign kingdom?
Answer: 885 AD

Question: Under which ruler did Armenia become a sovereign kingdom?
Answer: Ashot I

Question: What dynasty was Ashot I part of?
Answer: the Bagratid Dynasty

Question: Who invaded Armenia in 1064?
Answer: Seljuk Turks

Question: What Turkic federations ruled Armenia?
Answer: the Ak Koyunlu and the Kara Koyunlu

Question: When did the Russo-Persian War begin?
Answer: 1826

Question: When did the Russo-Persian War end?
Answer: 1828

Question: What treaty ended the Russo-Persian War?
Answer: Treaty of Turkmenchay

Question: When was the Peace of Amasya?
Answer: mid 16th century

Question: When did parts of Armenia under Iranian control become part of Russia?
Answer: In the late 1820s

Question: Who says they didn't kill Armenians as genocide, just because they were 'in the way of the war'?
Answer: Governments of Republic of Turkey

Question: What has happened when other countries condemned Armenian genocide?
Answer: diplomatic conflict

Question: Who ruled Turkey when the Armenian genocide happened?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire

Question: What was Armenia's status from 1918 to 1920?
Answer: independent republic

Question: When did communists take over Armenia?
Answer: late 1920

Question: Who invaded Armenia in 1920?
Answer: the Red Army

Question: What part of the USSR did Armenia join?
Answer: the Transcaucasian SFSR

Question: When did Armenia leave the USSR?
Answer: 1991

Question: How long have Armenians lived in the highlands?
Answer: over four thousand years

Question: Who founded the first Armenian nation?
Answer: Hayk

Question: Who did Hayk defeat?
Answer: Bel of Babylon

Question: What does Hayastantsis mean?
Answer: those that are from Armenia

Question: How many native Armenians are in Armenia today?
Answer: 3.5 million

Question: What is the Armenian Quarter?
Answer: one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem

Question: How many people live in the Armenian monastery in or near Italy?
Answer: 35

Question: When was the Italian Armenian monastery founded?
Answer: 1717

Question: What religion is the Italian Armenian monastery?
Answer: Catholic

Question: Where is the Italian Armenian monastery?
Answer: on an island near Venice

Question: What are Parskahay?
Answer: Armenians who originate from Iran

Question: What are Lipananahay?
Answer: Armenians from Lebanon

Question: What dialect do most Diaspora Armenians speak?
Answer: Western

Question: How similar is Western Armenian to Eastern Armenian dialect?
Answer: considerable differences with Eastern Armenian, but speakers of either of the two variations can usually understand each other

Question: What type of Armenian is spoken by Armenians in Iran and Russia?
Answer: Eastern

Question: When did Armenia's church become independent?
Answer: 451 AD

Question: What is Armenia's church called?
Answer: Armenian Apostolic Church

Question: What type of Catholicism is Armenia's church part of?
Answer: Oriental Orthodox

Question: Where was the Armenian Catholicosate located at first?
Answer: Echmiadzin

Question: Where did the Armenian Catholicosate move to?
Answer: Cilicia

Question: What religion is dominant in the countries surrounding Armenia?
Answer: Muslim

Question: What are Hamshenis?
Answer: ethnic Armenian Muslims

Question: Who became Catholicos in Etchmiadzin in 1441?
Answer: Kirakos Virapetsi

Question: Who remained Catholicos of Cilicia?
Answer: Krikor Moussapegiants

Question: How do the two Catholicosates compare?
Answer: equal rights and privileges

Question: Which Armenian church recognizes the Pope?
Answer: Armenian Catholic Church

Question: What broke away from the Armenian Apostolic Church?
Answer: Armenian Evangelical Church

Question: Which Armenian church is the most popular in Armenia?
Answer: Armenian Apostolic Church

Question: What broke away from the Armenian Evangelical Church?
Answer: Armenian Brotherhood Church

Question: Who came up with the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Mesrop Mashtots

Question: When did Armenian writing begin?
Answer: 400 AD

Question: Who was the 'father of Armenian history'?
Answer: Moses of Chorene

Question: Who wrote 'The History of Armenia'?
Answer: Moses of Chorene

Question: Which European movement were the Revivalist authors similar to?
Answer: Romanticists

Question: When were early Armenian Christian churches built?
Answer: between the 4th and 7th century

Question: In which century did Armenia become Christian?
Answer: 4th

Question: What radiating style are some Armenian churches built with?
Answer: Hrip'simé

Question: When were Armenian churches built with center cupola cones?
Answer: fifth century

Question: When were Armenian churches built with niched buttresses?
Answer: seventh century

Question: Who invaded Armenia in the 11th century?
Answer: Seljuk

Question: What Armenian monasteries were built in the 11th century?
Answer: Haghpat and Haritchavank

Question: When was there an Armenian architecture revival?
Answer: From the 9th to 11th century

Question: What dynasty ruled Armenia in the 10th century?
Answer: Bagratid Dynasty

Question: What was ornately carved in the 9th-11th centuries?
Answer: Armenian Khachkars

Question: When did Armenia begin winning Olympic medals?
Answer: 1952

Question: Where were the 1952 Olympics held?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: Which Armenian football team was the most successful?
Answer: Yerevan's FC Ararat

Question: Who won Armenia's first Olympic medal?
Answer: Hrant Shahinyan

Question: What pro team has FC Ararat beaten?
Answer: FC Bayern Munich

Question: What kind of music does Sayat Nova play?
Answer: Armenian folk music

Question: What instruments are used in Armenian folk music?
Answer: the duduk, the dhol, the zurna and the kanun

Question: What kind of Armenian religious music is prevalent?
Answer: the Armenian chant

Question: What did Mashtots do besides composing religious chants?
Answer: inventor of the Armenian alphabet

Question: What was Aram Khatchaturian's career?
Answer: classical music composer

Question: What type of music is Richard Hagopian famous for?
Answer: the traditional "kef" style

Question: What instruments does 'kef' use?
Answer: Armenian and Middle Eastern folk instruments (often electrified/amplified) and some western instruments

Question: What type of music does Sirusho perform?
Answer: pop music combined with Armenian folk music

Question: What nationality is Charles Aznavour?
Answer: French-Armenian

Question: What US heavy metal band is comprised of Armenians?
Answer: System of a Down

Question: What job do many Armenian women traditionally do?
Answer: Carpet-weaving

Question: When is the earliest known Armenian carpet from?
Answer: early 13th century

Question: Where is the earliest known Armenian carpet from?
Answer: the village of Banants (near Gandzak)

Question: What is 'gorg'?
Answer: the Armenian word for carpet

Question: Where is the earliest known use of 'gorg'?
Answer: in a 1242–1243 Armenian inscription on the wall of the Kaptavan Church in Artsakh

Question: What is Hakobyan's career?
Answer: Art historian

Question: What creatures are often depicted on Armenian carpets?
Answer: dragons and eagles

Question: What are artsvagorgs?
Answer: eagle-carpets

Question: What are vishapagorgs?
Answer: dragon-carpets

Question: What are otsagorgs?
Answer: serpent-carpets

Question: What is khorovats?
Answer: an Armenian-styled barbecue

Question: What is lavash?
Answer: Armenian flat bread

Question: What is paklava?
Answer: a popular dessert made from filo dough