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The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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