Statistics for Russian Literature and Writers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
'War and Peace' author	Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy	96%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel about Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in need of money	Crime and Punishment	85%
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer to win this prize	Nobel Prize for Literature	74%
Author of 'The Government Inspector' (Ревизор - Revizor)	Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol	69%
Count Alexei Vronsky's lover	Anna Karenina	65%
Author of the book above^	Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	64%
Dostoyevsky was sent here for being a member of The Petrashevsky Circle	Siberia	63%
Dmitri Fyodorovich; Ivan Fyodorovich; Alexei Fyodorovich (+ Pavel Fyodorovich)	The Brothers Karamazov	62%
Humbert Humbert's nymphet	Lolita	57%
What trees are in Madame Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya's orchard?	Cherry trees	54%
Maxim Gorky's novel 'The Mother' criticizes what regime?	Tsarist	48%
Who did Tatyana Larina write a letter to?	Eugene Onegin	46%
Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel 'What Is To Be Done?' is written in response to this Ivan Turgenev's novel	Fathers and Sons	44%
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel 'The Master and Margarita' is influenced by what German legend*?	Faust	42%
Name one sister from Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters (Три сeстры - Tri sestry)	Olga, Maria and Irina	33%
Author of a verse play 'Masquerade' and poems 'Demon' and 'Death of the Poet' which is written in reaction to the death of the person above^	Mikhail Lermontov	32%
a traditional Russian oral epic poem or ballad (generally)	Bylina	12%