Statistics for Geography of the Soviet Union

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What was the capital of the USSR?	Moscow	100%
What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia?	Kiev	93%
Which country did the USSR invade in September 1939?	Poland	91%
The site of the biggest nuclear accident to have ever happened	Chernobyl	88%
How many countries have arisen from the dissolution of the USSR?	15	76%
Deepest and oldest freshwater lake in the world	Lake {Baikal}	76%
In what country is the Soviet spaceport located, where they among other things launched Sputnik?	Kazakhstan	71%
Island on which the Soviets attempted to place nuclear missiles	Cuba	68%
The USSR took up one-... of the Earth's land surface	Sixth	68%
Which country was the first to declare independence?	Lithuania	67%
Formerly the 4th largest lake in the world, but shrank heavily due to Soviet irrigation projects	{Aral} Sea	66%
City where the Crimean Conference took place	Yalta	66%
Huge peninsula marking the east border of the Soviet Union	Kamchatka	61%
What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia?	Baku	56%
What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia?	Tashkent	56%
The former name of Kaliningrad, taken from Germany after WWII	Königsberg	52%
River that formed the border between the Soviet Union and China	Amur	41%
50.000 people used to live in this city near the previous answer, now it's a ghost town	Pripyat	41%
What was the name of the highest mountain in the USSR, now located in Tajikistan?	{Communism} Peak	27%
On what peninsula did the Soviets dig the deepest hole in the world?	{Kola} Peninsula	27%
What is the name of this spaceport?	{Baikonur} Cosmodrome	22%
Site of the worst earthquake in Soviet history, claiming over 25.000 lives	Spitak	3%