The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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1. Who was the first Soviet leader ?
Vladimir Lenin
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Joseph Stalin
2. What was the capital of Soviet Union ?
Moscow
Stalingrad
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
Samovar
Solyanka
Gulag
4. What was the name of the collective farms in the Soviet Union ?
Koshka
Kolkhoz
Vatrushka
Sobaka
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
1980
1952
1972
7. What was the name of Saint Petersburg during most of the Soviet Union?
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Petroskoi
Petrograd
8. What was the secret police of Soviet Union called?
CCP
KGB
CIA
DDR
9. Whose mausoleum is in the Red Square ?
Lenin's
Brezhnev's
Gorbachev's
Stalin's
10. What is the most famous thing on display in that mausoleum ?
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx's original, hand-written copy of "Capital"
His preserved body
The crown jewels of the last Tsar of Russia
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
Russia
Ukraine
Afghanistan
13. Who was the longest serving Soviet leader ?
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
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
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Finland
16. Who was the first man in outer space ?
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ivan Pavlov
Nikolai Gogol
Yuri Gagarin
17. What was his capsule called ?
Pirog 1
Sputnik 1
Vostok 1
Mir 1
18. What would they call their Soviet space travellers ?
Cosmonaut
Lunauts
Astronauts
Communaut
19. When did the Soviet Union finally dissolve ?
1991
1981
1996
1986
20. Who was the last Soviet leader ?
Boris Yeltsin
Rudolf Nureyev
Vladimir Nabokov
Mikhail Gorbachev
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