| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Dictator who killed millions but won WWII | Joseph Stalin | 97%
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| De-facto leader since 2000 | Vladimir Putin | 97%
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| First communist leader | V.I. Lenin | 96%
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| Peninsula seized in 2014 | Crimea | 90%
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| Siberian prison system during the reign of the above | Gulag | 86%
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| Satellite that launched the space race | Sputnik | 85%
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| Country invaded in 1979 | Afghanistan | 84%
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| Pact between the USSR and its allies in 1955 | {Warsaw} Pact | 82%
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| Conqueror who invaded Russia in 1812 | Napoleon | 79%
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| "Great" female empress | Catherine the Great | 77%
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| Communist faction that seized power in 1917 | Bolshevik | 73%
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| Author of "War & Peace" | Leo Tolstoy | 73%
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| Country invaded in 2008 | Georgia | 69%
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| Group that conquered Russia in the 1200's | Mongols | 68%
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| Tsar who moved the capital | Peter the Great | 68%
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| First democratically-elected President | Boris Yeltsin | 64%
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| First tsar | Ivan the Terrible | 64%
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| Last tsarist dynasty | Romanov | 61%
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| Ancient fortified area of Moscow | Kremlin | 56%
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| Group that was liberated in 1861 | Serfs | 28%
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