The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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