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Question	Answer	% Correct
What was the capital of the Russian Empire, named after its first emperor?	St. Petersburg	94%
What branch of Christianity became the state religion of the Russian Empire, being practiced by around 70% of the population?	Orthodox	92%
What Russian colony in the Americas was sold to the United States in 1867?	Alaska	89%
What military leader briefly captured Moscow in 1812, only to find it abandoned?	Napoleon	89%
What country was repeatedly partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795?	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	89%
Who was the last tsar of the Russian Empire, who served from 1894 to 1917?	Nicholas II	88%
What country lost significant amounts of territory to Russia in the Great Northern War, allowing Russia to expand around the Baltic Sea and become a European power?	Sweden	88%
Who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 and was considered an "enlightened despot" for her modernization of Russia and patronage of the arts?	Catherine the Great	87%
What Asian country did Russia fight in a 1904-1905 war, resulting in a string of embarrassing military defeats?	Japan	84%
What was the name of the dynasty that ruled the Russian Empire?	Romanov	83%
What event, during which peaceful protesters were killed by military officers outside the Winter Palace, directly led to the Revolution of 1905?	{Bloody} Sunday	80%
What nation in the Balkans did Russia strongly support during the July Crisis of 1914, leading to the start of World War 1?	Serbia	75%
What conflict did Russia lose to a coalition consisting of France, the United Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire in the 1850s?	Crimean War	73%
What group of people, initially from the steppes of Ukraine, were incorporated into the Russian military as elite soldiers?	Cossacks	70%
What Russian author wrote extensively in the 1860s and 1870s and today is best known for his novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"?	Leo Tolstoy	69%
What group of people, peasants held in involuntary servitude, was freed by Tsar Alexander II in 1861?	Serfs	66%
Which event resulted in the abdication of Nicholas II and the replacement of the Russian Empire with the Russian Provisional Government?	{February} Revolution	57%
What was the name of the last tsar's daughter, whose was rumored to have survived the execution of the Royal Family for decades after her death?	Anastasia	54%
What disease did the tsar's son have that Grigori Rasputin was initially hired to treat?	Hemophilia	43%
What general, at one point a lover of the Empress, set up elaborate villages to impress the Empress and eventually had a famous battleship named in his honor?	Grigory Potemkin	37%
What group of people attempted a coup in 1825 to replace Tsar Nicholas I with his older brother?	Decembrists	30%
What Muslim ethnic group was forcibly removed from their homeland in the Caucuses in the 1860s by the Russian military, in what is now largely considered a genocide?	Circassians	25%
What Russian playwright wrote "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Seagull" in the 1890s and is also known for a literary principle involving a gun?	Anton Chekov	24%
What philosophy became widespread among young Russians in the late 1800s as a reaction against the prevailing social norms of the Russian government and church?	Nihilism	18%

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