Statistics for 100 Questions about Russia

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The average score is 62 of 100

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Capital	Moscow	99%
Colors on their flag	Red	97%
2nd-biggest city	St. Petersburg	97%
Current president	Vladimir Putin	97%
Colors on their flag	White	97%
Colors on their flag	Blue	96%
Its leader 1922-1953	Joseph Stalin	95%
Its first leader	Vladimir Lenin	95%
Very popular alcoholic drink	Vodka	95%
Its abbreviation	U.S.S.R.	93%
Longest river in Europe	Volga	92%
Residence of the President	Kremlin	91%
Vast Eastern region, sparsely populated	Siberia	91%
^ is on which Sea?	{Black} Sea	90%
Peninsula annexed in 2014	Crimea	89%
Its ideology	Communism	88%
The 'terrible' leader	Ivan the Terrible	88%
Form of christianity popular in Eastern Europe	Orthodoxy	88%
^ was member of this security agency	KGB	87%
The two 'great' leaders	{Peter} the Great	85%
Title used for leaders, derived from Caesar	Tsar	85%
Mountainous borders between Europe and Asia	Ural	85%
First satellite in space	Sputnik 1	84%
Its former name	Leningrad	83%
First human in space	Yuri Gagarin	83%
Labor camp system	Gulag	82%
2014 Winter Olympics location	Sochi	82%
This peninsula was part of this country before 2014	Ukraine	82%
Last emperor of Russia	Nicholas II.	81%
^ flows into this Sea	{Caspian} Sea	78%
Other word for ^, meaning "grandmother"	Babushka	77%
The two 'great' leaders	{Catherine} the Great	77%
Mr. .... , tear down this wall!	Mikhail Gorbachev	77%
Russia, officially	Russian Federation	77%
Longest railway line in the world	{Trans-Siberian} Railway	77%
Biggest port on the Pacific	Vladivostok	77%
Former name of Volgograd	Stalingrad	76%
Writer regarded as one of the greatest authors, War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	75%
First president	Boris Yeltsin	74%
Martial art practiced by him	Judo	74%
Socialist state, predecessor of Russia	Soviet Union	74%
The two biggest Russian lakes	Lake Baikal	72%
This revolution was led by the ....	Bolsheviks	71%
Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky	The Nutcracker	68%
Writing system used in Russia	Cyrillic	67%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Ob	67%
Revolution in Russia in 1917	{October} Revolution	67%
Mountainous borders between Europe and Asia	Caucasus	65%
Year of Russia's last independence	1991	64%
Video game with the goal to drop blocks down to make lines	Tetris	64%
First animal to orbit the Earth	Laika	63%
He was the leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev	63%
World-famous church in the capital	Saint Basil's Cathedral	63%
What Russia held in 2018	FIFA World Cup	62%
President 2008-2012	Dmitry Medvedev	59%
Russian novelist, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	59%
Peninsula in the Far East	Kamchatka	59%
Highest mountain of Russia	Elbrus	58%
Lower house of the Federal Assembly	State Duma	58%
Caucasian region which has tried to leave Russia	Chechnya	57%
The country's name in Russian	Rossiya / Россия	56%
Russia's largest island	Sakhalin	56%
Peasant and faith healer	Grigori Rasputin	54%
Famous firearm also known as 'AK-47'	Kalashnikov	54%
Type of administrative division in Russia	Oblast	54%
This separates ^ from the President's residence	Red Square	54%
Typical Russian stringed musical instrument	Balalaika	53%
Jeweled egg	Fabergé	53%
Brand of cars, popular in Eastern Europe	Lada	51%
Largest city north of the Arctic Circle	Murmansk	51%
Museum of art und culture, Winter Palace building	Hermitage	50%
Holiday celebrated on 9 May	Victory Day	49%
Popular sour soup	Borscht	48%
Words often used by ^, publicity and reformation	perestroika	48%
Words often used by ^, publicity and reformation	glasnost	46%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Lena	46%
Form of power where a few people have much power	Oligarchy	46%
Space station that operated 1986-2001	MIR	44%
Best-paid female athlete	Maria Sharapova	43%
Large company focused on production, transport and sale of oil and gas	Gazprom	42%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Yenisey	40%
Set of wooden dolls that can be placed inside another	Matryoshka	37%
The two biggest Russian lakes	Lake Ladoga	36%
City formerly known as Gorky	Nizhny Novgorod	36%
City in Western Russia or 2000 submarine disaster	Kursk	34%
Archipelago claimed by Japan und Russia	Kuril Islands	33%
Term used in Russia for the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945	Great Patriotic War	27%
Ring of cities around Moscow	Golden Ring	24%
Loose federation of tribes, 882-1240	Kievan Rus	24%
Biggest city on the above	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	24%
Industrial city in the very north closed to all non-Russians (except for Belarusians)	Norilsk	23%
Archipelago where the Tsar Bomba was tested	Novaya Zemlya	22%
Famous Russian ice hockey player, currently playing in the U.S. for the Washington Capitals	Alexander Ovechkin	21%
One of the best hockey leagues in the world	KHL	21%
Peninsula which forms the easternmost part of Asia	Chukchi	18%
Upper house of the Federal Assembly	Federation Council	14%
Town with temperature extremes, 35°C in summer, -65°C in winter	Oymyakon	12%
The last island where mammoths lived	Wrangel	12%
Peninsula which forms the northernmost part of Eurasia	Taymyr	10%
Bronze monument which shows 1,000 years of Russian history	Millennium of Russia	8%