City are generally always accepted in their native tongue on this site, ALL answers would be silly. But the rest usually already is translated and accepted. Im sure there is a word for your comment, i honestly cant think of it. (Like saying what is next MOVING pictures! While they allready exist) it sort of takes the power out of your argument.
Yes, the quiz is in the English language, but that doesn't mean that native spellings shouldn't be accepted. All you're doing by arguing this point is setting the bar of entry quite high for Russian speakers that might not know the Anglicized versions of their words, and that's unfair to those who have the knowledge. Saying this is like saying that Mumbai shouldn't be accepted instead of Bombay, nor Bayern for Bavaria. I don't understand why there is such a fervent argument when a solution could so easily be reached.
I think there was a mortar called a Samovar, but wasn't it called that from a WWII funny song about Russians launching their samovars of boiling water at the enemy?
Only found out about the Christmas connection with the ballet relatively recently. I guess other countries have that instead of pantomime. 30/30, surprised myself, even though I have actually visited Russia.
I don't get how this is supposed to be a comeback, changing the all the 'o's in that sentence to 'a's vastly changes the wording of the sentence, whereas changing the 'i' to a 'y' in bolshoi doesn't change the pronunciation and makes perfect sense.
In fact it's pronounced more like "balshoy" in Russian, with an [a] sound, because we don't pronounce unstressed o's clearly, but it's still spelled большой (bolshoy), so the idea is still strange lol
To be fair, he hasn't been President all of the time. At some of the periods he has been Prime Minister (though always actually being the man in power) because Russian law prohibited him from holding the title for all of the period. So you would have to know in which periods he has been President and which he has been Prime Minister and match it to the quiz date
I tried gulas(h) and gaugin. I knew they werent right but it was as close as my might would get me. A miracle i didnt try erebus for elbus ;) then again i was totally blank on that one though on hindsight i do recognise it.
Islandcarver: Literally every time a country tried to do communism, it ended up in horrible attrocities, famines, death and suffering (USSR, China, North Korea, Cambodia, etc.). Yet, people always claim it's not the fault of the system, but rather the people and the system inntheory is good. It's just not.
For a curiosity: The one and only success-finished siege of Moscow was in 1610 by polish troops called Husaria. In Russia time when polish army stayed in Moscow calls Smuta (Time of Troubles)
Thats just simply not true. Napoleon conquered Moscow without any trouble, it was after, when russians pulled the pro gamer move of burning it down, when things went down the drain for him. Mongols also razed Moscow when they had their time there.
That's why i wrote SIEGE. Napoleon didn't siege a city. Russians after battle of Borodino abandoned and burned down Moscow so Napoleon took destroyed city without any fight. With Mongols - I agree with you but the fact is that Poles stayed in Moscow for the longer time - over 2 years (1610-1612)
It's accepted for Leningrad. But it does also work for the St Petersburg hint. The name Petrograd was used from 1914 to 1924. But anyone who knows Petrograd will also know St Petersburg.
The highest mountains on each continent. They are: Denali (North America), Aconcagua (South America), Elbrus (Europe), Everest (Asia), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Vinson (Antarctica) ans either Puncak Jaya or Kosciusko (Oceania) based on whether you’re using Oceania or counting border areas, such as the Indonesian part of New Guinea and Hawaii.
technically speaking, Catherine was a tsarina (or empress). Saying she was a tsar is similar to saying the UK is currently ruled by king elizabeth... XD
Great quiz, but nothing on chess! Russia is literally the most famous country in history for chess performance and domination--for the latter three quarters of the twentieth century. Names like Botvinnik, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov (although the latter technically is from Baku in Azerbaijan).
Also, it would have been nice to see something on Dostoyevsky. Tolstoy wrote two novels that are household words; Dostoyevsky wrote three (and more, if you include Devils and A Raw Youth). There's also other writers like Gogol, Turgenev, and the Russian Shakespeare in terms of his poetry--Pushkin.
I also didn't see anything at all about Lenin, which seems a great shame.
Too bad the deepest and largest (by volume!!!) freshwater lake in the world, Lake Baikal, didn't make it on.
Having said all that, you have made a great quiz here, even a much longer quiz on any country would always miss so much. I write all this as an admirer of your excellent quiz! :-)
The first time I took this quiz, many months ago (if not over a year ago), I got 25/28. This time I got 28/28. I missed AK-47 and "Battle of Stalingrad". Instead I tried "Volgograd", which Jetpunk should have accepted, but nevertheless.
One thing that infuriates me about "things Russian" is how the names of countries are changed and (misappropriated) into English and abused in the vernacular. It's as if "Russian" stands for "Rushin", and "Rushin" is a bad thing (and this speaks to mass misconception of humility as obsequiousness whereas it can also, and instead, be about acting urgently, decisively and forcibly). So it isn't always a bad thing. With so many school shootings and mass shootings and Covid and so much other craziness, the wheels of justice grind AWFULLY slow, and in that case, I would think that "Rushin" would be a VERY good thing. If that's the case, then clone Vladimir Putin a hundred million times and import him into the USA ON THE DOUBLE!!!
"Battle of Volgograd" makes more sense having "Battle of Stalingrad" since that is the only real name of the battle, if this asked "what city this battle happended at that would make sense for a Volgograd type in
This quiz is not about Russia, it is more about the Soviet Union and further history. While I think that a quiz like this needs to have a little bit of history in it, it is too much to make this kind of quiz so much about its history, mainly the Soviet Union. This is a quiz on Russia as a country today.
And please fix the Petrograd-Leningrad thing, Petrograd is a name given by the tsar in WW1 to sound less german, because they were fighting the Germans. Leningrad came only after the revolution and the dissolution of the Tsardom of Russia. Pertrograd has nothing to do with communism.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Ah, it’s American KGB...
wonder how many guys from Russia had the same problem))
Also, it would have been nice to see something on Dostoyevsky. Tolstoy wrote two novels that are household words; Dostoyevsky wrote three (and more, if you include Devils and A Raw Youth). There's also other writers like Gogol, Turgenev, and the Russian Shakespeare in terms of his poetry--Pushkin.
I also didn't see anything at all about Lenin, which seems a great shame.
Too bad the deepest and largest (by volume!!!) freshwater lake in the world, Lake Baikal, didn't make it on.
Having said all that, you have made a great quiz here, even a much longer quiz on any country would always miss so much. I write all this as an admirer of your excellent quiz! :-)
One thing that infuriates me about "things Russian" is how the names of countries are changed and (misappropriated) into English and abused in the vernacular. It's as if "Russian" stands for "Rushin", and "Rushin" is a bad thing (and this speaks to mass misconception of humility as obsequiousness whereas it can also, and instead, be about acting urgently, decisively and forcibly). So it isn't always a bad thing. With so many school shootings and mass shootings and Covid and so much other craziness, the wheels of justice grind AWFULLY slow, and in that case, I would think that "Rushin" would be a VERY good thing. If that's the case, then clone Vladimir Putin a hundred million times and import him into the USA ON THE DOUBLE!!!