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Who is not Russian? - Multiple Choice

Each question lists three Russians - and one who is not. Can you guess the odd one out?
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Last updated: May 22, 2019
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1. Tennis players
Maria Sharapova
Anna Kournikova
Anastasia Myskina
Petra Kvitová
Kvitová is Czech
2. Rulers
Boris III
Peter I
Nicholas II
Ivan IV
Boris III was emperor of Bulgaria
3. Authors
Boris Pasternak
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Franz Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
Kafka was born in present-day Czechia
4. Philosophers
Karl Marx
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Helena Blavatsky
Leo Tolstoy
Marx was German
5. Chess Players
Mikhail Botvinnik
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Boris Spassky
Garry Kasparov
Kasimdzhanov is Uzbekistani
6. 2016 Olympic Gold Medallists
Aliya Mustafina, gymnastics
Beslan Mudranov, judo
Olivia Smoliga, swimming
Ekaterina Makarova, tennis
Smoliga is American
7. Composers
Aram Khachaturian
Alexander Borodin
Sergei Prokofiev
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Khachaturian was Armenian
8. Ballet dancers
Anna Pavlova
Margot Fonteyn
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolf Nureyev
Fonteyn was British
9. Astronauts
Yuri Gagarin
Valentina Tereshkova
Aleksei Leonov
Judith Resnik
Resnik was American
10. Leaders
Saparmurat Niyazov
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Niyazov led Turkmenistan
11. Scientists
Max Planck, Nobel prize winner in theoretical physics
Ivan Pavlov, of Pavlov's dogs fame
Wladimir Köppen, of Köppen climate classification fame
Alexander Prokhorov, inventor of the laser
12. Present-day pop singers
Zemfira
Zedd
Vitas
Avicii
Avicii is Swedish
13. World boxing champions
Alexander Povetkin
Vitali Klitschko
Oleg Maskaev
Kostya Tszyu
Klitschko is Ukrainian
14. Musicians
Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist
Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
Menuhin was a dual British/American citizen, born in USA
15. Playwrights
Nikolai Gogol
Alexander Pushkin
Anton Chekhov
Václav Havel
Havel was Czech, and later became Czechia's first president
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