| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What was the capital of the USSR? | Moscow | 99%
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| What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia? | Kiev | 91%
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| Which country did the USSR invade in September 1939? | Poland | 90%
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| The site of the biggest nuclear accident to have ever happened | Chernobyl | 87%
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| Deepest and oldest freshwater lake in the world | Lake {Baikal} | 74%
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| How many countries have arisen from the dissolution of the USSR? | 15 | 73%
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| Island on which the Soviets attempted to place nuclear missiles | Cuba | 69%
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| In what country is the Soviet spaceport located, where they among other things launched Sputnik? | Kazakhstan | 69%
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| The USSR took up one-... of the Earth's land surface | Sixth | 66%
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| Formerly the 4th largest lake in the world, but shrank heavily due to Soviet irrigation projects | {Aral} Sea | 65%
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| Which country was the first to declare independence? | Lithuania | 64%
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| City where the Crimean Conference took place | Yalta | 64%
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| Huge peninsula marking the east border of the Soviet Union | Kamchatka | 59%
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| What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia? | Baku | 54%
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| What were the three biggest cities in the USSR outside of present-day Russia? | Tashkent | 54%
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| The former name of Kaliningrad, taken from Germany after WWII | Königsberg | 52%
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| 50,000 people used to live in this city near the previous answer, now it's a ghost town | Pripyat | 40%
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| River that formed the border between the Soviet Union and China | Amur | 38%
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| What was the name of the highest mountain in the USSR, now located in Tajikistan? | {Communism} Peak | 27%
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| On what peninsula did the Soviets dig the deepest hole in the world? | {Kola} Peninsula | 24%
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| What is the name of this spaceport? | {Baikonur} Cosmodrome | 21%
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| Site of the worst earthquake in Soviet history, claiming over 25.000 lives | Spitak | 2%
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