Statistics for Russian History A-Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Territory that Russia sold to the United States in 1867 for just $7.2 million	Alaska	98%
J	Russia nearly lost its entire Pacific fleet in a disastrous war with this country in 1904-05	Japan	91%
H	One of the items on the Soviet flag	Hammer	90%
G	Siberian prison system during the reign of Joseph Stalin	Gulag	89%
B	Communist faction that came to power in 1917	Bolsheviks	88%
I	The first Tsar of Russia	Ivan the Terrible	88%
S	Former name of Volgograd	Stalingrad	87%
N	The last tsar of Russia, executed in 1918	Nicholas II	85%
U	In an event called the Holodomor, Soviet leaders inflicted a terrible famine on this country, killing millions	Ukraine	77%
P	Mendeleev published the first version of this "table" in 1860	{Periodic} Table	76%
O	The second of the two 1917 revolutions	{October} Revolution	73%
Y	The first democratically-elected leader in Russian history	Boris Yeltsin	72%
K	Soviet leader who de-Stalinized the country in the 1950s	Nikita Khrushchev	72%
T	This writer died in 1910 having never won a Nobel Prize, considered to be one of the greatest omissions in its history	Leo Tolstoy	71%
R	Royal house that ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917	Romanov	69%
E	Churchill described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an _____"	Enigma	65%
W	Army that fought against the Communists from 1917-1921	{White} Army	63%
F	The first of the two 1917 revolutions	{February} Revolution	57%
L	Space dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth in 1957	Laika	57%
D	Author who said "If there is no God, everything is permitted"	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	53%
C	Federal subject of Russia that tried to break away in the 1990s	Chechnya	51%
M	Foreign minister who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939	Vyacheslav Molotov	44%
V	Group of northern people who ruled over the Kievan Rus'	Vikings	40%
Z	Most-decorated Soviet general of WWII	Georgy Zhukov	37%
Q	Contemporary term for tsar Alexis (like Alexander the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent etc, in this case Alexis the ...)	Quiet	21%
X	Princess consort of Tver who is counted as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church	{Xenia} of Tarusa	17%