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%
|
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Desktop Site