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Question	Answer	% Correct
What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?	Afghanistan	100%
What Russian refers to a "grandmother" or "elderly woman"?	Babushka	100%
What is the Slavic name of the beet soup?	Borscht	100%
What mountain range divides Russia from Western Asia?	Caucasus	100%
What nuclear plant melted down in 1986?	Chernobyl	100%
At the world championships of what game did the American Bobby Fischer defeat Boris Spassky?	Chess	100%
What peninsula in Europe did Russia annex in 2014?	Crimea	100%
What former country did the USSR invade in 1968?	Czechoslovakia	100%
What is the Russian version of a villa or a summer home?	Dacha	100%
What is the name of the Russian national parliament?	Duma	100%
With what country does Russia share the Lake Peipus?	Estonia	100%
What author said "If there is no God, everything is permitted"?	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	100%
What name is given to he Siberian prison system during rule of Joseph Stalin?	Gulag	100%
What person ruled the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953?	Joseph Stalin	100%
What is the official residence of the President of Russia?	Kremlin	100%
By what name was Saint Petersburg formerly known?	Leningrad	100%
What is the highest mountain both in Russia and Europe?	Mount Elbrus	100%
On what river is Saint Petersburg located?	Neva	100%
What Soviet leader de-Stalinized the Soviet Union in the 1950s?	Nikita Khrushchev	100%
What is the Russian word for "no"?	Nyet	100%
On what river is Novosibirsk located?	Ob	100%
What term, starting with O, refers to a region of Russia?	Oblast	100%
What was the nationality of people who were executed in the Katyn Massacre?	Polish	100%
What "Mad Monk", who was hard to kill, had considerable influence in Russia?	Rasputin	100%
What is the name of the Soviet army?	{Red} Army	100%
What is the full name of Russia in the English language?	Russian {Federation}	100%
What traditional metal boiler is used for making tea?	Samovar	100%
What is the name of the vast northern and eastern region of Russia?	Siberia	100%
Which Russian city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?	Sochi	100%
What for did Russia get barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics?	State-Sponsoring Doping	100%
What event was hosted in Moscow in 1980?	Summer Olympics	100%
What video game's goal is to drop blocks down to make lines?	Tetris	100%
What Christmas ballet was composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?	The Nutcracker	100%
What is the third-largest ethnic group among Russian residents?	Ukrainian	100%
What city is the headquarters of the Russian Pacific fleet?	Vladivostok	100%
What is the longest river in Europe?	Volga	100%
What military alliance was founded by the Soviet Union and its allies in 1955?	{Warsaw} Pact	100%
What army that fought against the Communists from 1917-1921?	{White} Army	100%
Who was the first person to orbit the Earth?	Yuri Gagarin	100%
What was the native language of Joseph Stalin?	Georgian	89%
Who was the leader of the Russian Revolution?	Vladimir Lenin	88%
In what three countries is Russian an official language? (name any of them)	Belarus \| Kazakhstan \| Kyrgyzstan	86%
What territory did Russia sell to the United States in 1867 for just $7.2 million?	Alaska	83%
What strait separates Russia from North America?	Bering Strait	83%
What is the name of the alphabet in which the Russian language is written?	Cyrillic	83%
What is the Christian denomination of most of the Russians?	Russian Orthodox	83%
What agricultural item appeared on the Soviet flag?	Sickle	83%
What is the most famous cathedral of Moscow?	St. Basil	83%
What event did Russia host for the first time in 2018?	FIFA World Cup	80%
What country did Russia invade in 1939 and is roundly repulsed despite huge numerical superiority?	Finland	80%
What part of Russia, taken from Germany, is not connected to the rest?	Kaliningrad	80%
What is the Soviet equivalent of the CIA?	KGB	80%
What is the world's deepest lake?	Lake Baikal	80%
With what country does Russia share only a 17 km (11 mi) long border?	North Korea	80%
What "table" did Mendeleev publish the first version of in 1860?	{Periodic} Table	80%
What is the former name of Volgograd?	Stalingrad	80%
In what country did Soviet leaders inflict a terrible famine, in an event called the Holodomor, killing millions?	Ukraine	80%
What tsar became the first Grand Duke of Finland after winning the "Finnish War"?	Alexander I	75%
What animal is often used to symbolize Russia?	Bear	75%
What sea lies between Russia and Turkey?	Black Sea	75%
To what country did the famous male ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, defect in 1961?	France	75%
Who was the most-decorated Soviet general of WWII?	Georgy Zhukov	75%
What conqueror invaded Russia and forced it to burn Moscow in 1812?	Napoleon	75%
What was the name of the second of the two 1917 revolutions?	{October} Revolution	75%
What island, Russia's largest, was once claimed by Japan?	Sakhalin	75%
Who described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"?	Winston Churchill	75%
What was the name of the last tsar's youngest daughter?	Anastasia	71%
What inland sea is considered to be the largest lake in the world?	Caspian Sea	71%
What was the first ballet Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed?	Swan Lake	71%
What is the most famous Russian firearm?	AK-47	67%
What Communist faction seized power in 1917 after the Russian Revolution?	Bolsheviks	67%
What is the Russian term for the astronaut?	Cosmonaut	67%
Who was the President of the Russian Federation between 2008-12?	Dmitry Medvedev	67%
On what river is the city of Rostov located?	Don	67%
What animal depicts on the coat of arms of Russia?	Eagle \| Horse	67%
What is the name of the first of the two 1917 revolutions?	{February} Revolution	67%
Russia has 11 time zones. Only one country has more than Russia? Which one is it?	France	67%
What fictional Russian boxer is the rival of Robert Balboa in "Rocky IV"?	Ivan Drago	67%
Who was the first tsar of Russia?	Ivan the Terrible	67%
What is the favourite sport of Putin?	Judo	67%
What space dog became the first animal to orbit Earth in 1957?	Laika	67%
What writer died in 1910 having never won a Nobel Prize - considered to be one of the greatest omissions in its history?	Leo Tolstoy	67%
What is the Russian pronunciation of "Moscow"?	Moskva	67%
What country was partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria?	Poland	67%
What is the currency of Russia?	Ruble	67%
Which palace was the residence of the Russian emperors?	Winter Palace	67%
Which two countries border Russia through Kaliningrad? (name either)	Lithuania \| Poland	63%
What does the name Stalin mean?	Man of {Steel}	63%
What is the name of the national airline of Russia?	Aeroflot	60%
What group of horsemen once protected Russia's borders in the late 19th century?	Cossacks	60%
At what language is Vladimir Putin most fluent after Russian?	German	60%
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union before collapsing?	Mikhail Gorbachev	60%
What group of people conquered Russia in the 1200s?	Mongols	60%
What type of fish is used for making the traditional Russian caviar?	Sturgeon	60%
What city, starting with I, is also one of the places in the "Risk"?	Irkutsk	57%
What notable Soviet diplomat was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940?	Leon Trotsky	57%
What country did Russia defeat in the "Great Northern War"?	Sweden	56%
Who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature?	Alexander Pushkin	50%
What sea does Saint Petersburg overlook?	Baltic Sea	50%
Who has been the first democratically-elected leader in Russian history?	Boris Yeltsin	50%
What term from the Soviet era means "fellow citizen"?	Comrade	50%
Which of the novels of Boris Pasternak was rejected for publication in the USSR, but its manuscript was smuggled to Italy for publication?	Doctor Zhivago	50%
What American whistleblower founded asylum in Russia in 2013?	Edward Snowden	50%
What country did Russia invade in 2008?	Georgia	50%
What tech company was co-founded by Sergey Brin?	Google	50%
What country was jointly invaded by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom in 1941?	Iran	50%
The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the war against what country in 1905?	Japan	50%
What is the easternmost of the three major Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean?	Lena	50%
What photogenic tennis player has won 5 Grand Slam titles?	Maria Sharapova	50%
What prize was Joseph Stalin hilariously nominated for in 1945 and 1948?	Nobel Peace Prize	50%
What country shares the shortest border with Russia in Europe?	Norway	50%
What satellite launched the space race?	Sputnik	50%
What is the longest railway line in the world?	Trans-Siberian Railway	50%
What country's F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M in 2015?	Turkey	50%
What group of northern people ruled over the Kievan Rus'?	Vikings	50%
Who has been the de-facto leader of Russia since 2000?	Vladimir Putin	50%
What is the most popular alcoholic beverage in Russia?	Vodka	50%
What city was named after Yakov Sverdlov during the Soviet era?	Yekaterinburg	50%
What federal subject of Russia tried to break away in the 1990s?	Chechnya	40%
What sport does Alexander Ovechkin play?	Ice Hockey	40%
What peninsula, with 29 active volcanoes, can be found in the far northeast of Russia?	Kamchatka	40%
What was the largest country by area in the Soviet Union after Russia?	Kazakhstan	40%
What are the two largest lakes in Europe? (name either)?	Ladoga \| Onega	40%
What Russian billionaire is the owner of Chelsea FC?	Roman Abramovich	40%
What is the name of the sub-sea that lies between Russia and Crimea?	Sea of Azov	40%
What tsar is known as the "Liberator" for his reforms in the 19th century?	Alexander II	33%
What river makes most of the Russian border with China?	Amur	33%
What is the name of the most famous ballet theater in Moscow?	Bolshoi	33%
What novel focuses on the moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov?	Crime and Punishment	33%
What is the name of the second largest art museum in the world?	Hermitage	33%
What country imports the greatest amount of weaponry from Russia?	India	33%
What region does Russia share with Finland?	Karelia	33%
Which Vladimir Nabokov novels did Stanley Kubrick make a movie out of in 1962?	Lolita	33%
What Russian ballet dancer emigrated to Canada in 1974?	Mikhail Baryshnikov	33%
What was the innermost ruling committee of the Soviet Union?	{Polit}buro	33%
What plaza is located near the Kremlin?	Red Square	33%
Moscow is sometimes known to be the "third" of what city?	Rome	33%
What sea does Vladivostok overlook?	Sea of Japan	33%
What group of people were liberated in 1861?	Serfs	33%
What term refers to the vast, Eurasian grasslands of Russia?	Steppe	33%
What language, besides Russian, is commonly spoken in the city of Kazan?	Tatar	33%
What does "Moscow Does Not Believe in" in Vladimir Menshov's 1979 romantic film?	Tears	33%
What friendly nickname did Stalin acquire during WWII?	{Uncle} Joe	33%
What animal went extinct on Russia's Wrangel Island around 2000 BC?	Woolly Mammoth	33%
What Prussian princess became Tsar of Russia after overthrowing his husband in 1762?	Catherine the Great	29%
What city briefly became famous in 2013 for a meteor explosion?	Chelyabinsk	25%
What international organisation linked all Communists in the world?	Comintern	25%
What city, starting with K, is often considered to be the "third capital of Russia"?	Kazan	25%
What brand of Russian car was introduced in 1963?	Lada	25%
Who is often considered to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport?	Lev Yashin	25%
What city was formerly known as Gorky?	Nizhny Novgorod	25%
What Russian city shares its name with a hairstyle?	Perm	25%
What was Andrei Kirilenko's sport?	Basketball	20%
What was the most famous model of tank that was deployed during WWII?	T-34	20%
What foreign minister cynically signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939?	Vyacheslav Molotov	20%
What Arctic sea lies between Russia and Svalbard?	Barents Sea	17%
What series of jewelled eggs were manufactured between 1885-1917?	{Fabergé} Egg	17%
What did the Soviet montage theory in film industry create?	Film Editing	17%
What chess player ranked as the all-time highest rated chess player until 2014?	Garry Kasparov	17%
What Russian city is the most populous north of the Arctic Circle?	Murmansk	17%
What was the main occupation of Yul Brynner?	Acting	0%
What playwright was known for his short stories, including "The Lady with the Dog"?	Anton Chekhov	0%
What was the final novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky?	Brothers Karamazov	0%
What Muslim-majority federal subject was the site of a war in 1999?	Dagestan	0%
What Pittsburgh Penguin is nicknamed "Geno"?	Evgeni Malkin	0%
What is an "Ushanka"?	Fur cap	0%
What country revolted against the Soviet Union in 1956?	Hungary	0%
Who composed "The Firebird", "Petrushka" and "The Rite of Spring"?	Igor Stravinsky	0%
What Russian physiologist made dogs salivate with a bell?	Ivan Pavlov	0%
What was the first country to secede from the Soviet Union?	Lithuania	0%
What is the English term for someone from Moscow?	Muscovite	0%
What last tsar of Russia was executed in 1918?	Nicholas II	0%
What is the most populous city in the Asian part of Russia?	Novosibirsk	0%
What "great" tsar moved the capital to Saint Petersburg?	Peter the Great	0%
What term is used for the anti-Jewish riots and killings in the early 20th century?	Pogrom	0%
What was the official state newspaper of the Soviet Union?	Prava	0%
What Jennifer Lawrence movie is based on a 2013 novel set in Moscow?	Red Sparrow	0%
What royal house ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917?	Romanov	0%
What is the most populous three-letter city in Russia?	Ufa	0%
What does "USSR" officially stand for?	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	0%
What mountain range divides the European and Asian parts of Russia?	Urals	0%
What is the name of the war that was fought against Finland during WWII?	Winter War	0%