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The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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1. Who was the first Soviet leader ?
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Yuri Andropov
2. What was the capital of Soviet Union ?
Stalingrad
Moscow
Novgorod
Leningrad
3. What was the name of the forced labour camps (or more accurately the government agency which was in charge of them) in the Soviet Union?
Golubtsy
Solyanka
Samovar
Gulag
4. What was the name of the collective farms in the Soviet Union ?
Vatrushka
Kolkhoz
Sobaka
Koshka
5. What was the national anthem of the Soviet Union ?
"The Socialism"
"The Nationale"
"The Communism"
"The Internationale"
6. Soviet Union hosted the Summer Olympics in.... ?
1952
1980
1960
1972
7. What was the name of Saint Petersburg during most of the Soviet Union?
Petrograd
Petroskoi
Stalingrad
Leningrad
8. What was the secret police of Soviet Union called?
CCP
CIA
DDR
KGB
9. Whose mausoleum is in the Red Square ?
Lenin's
Brezhnev's
Stalin's
Gorbachev's
10. What is the most famous thing on display in that mausoleum ?
His preserved body
The crown jewels of the last Tsar of Russia
Karl Marx's original, hand-written copy of "Capital"
The Communist Manifesto
11. What was the currency of the Soviet Union ?
Soviet dollar
Soviet dinar
Soviet ruble
Soviet złoty
12. In which modern day country is Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster / accident ?
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Russia
Afghanistan
13. Who was the longest serving Soviet leader ?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
14. How long was that longest serving Soviet leader in power ?
19 years
41 years
29 years
35 years
15. Soviet Union was at war from December 1979 to February 1989 with... ?
Afghanistan
Finland
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
16. Who was the first man in outer space ?
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nikolai Gogol
Yuri Gagarin
Ivan Pavlov
17. What was his capsule called ?
Mir 1
Vostok 1
Sputnik 1
Pirog 1
18. What would they call their Soviet space travellers ?
Communaut
Astronauts
Lunauts
Cosmonaut
19. When did the Soviet Union finally dissolve ?
1981
1986
1996
1991
20. Who was the last Soviet leader ?
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Nabokov
Rudolf Nureyev
Mikhail Gorbachev
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