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Russian History Trivia - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 132 times
- The average score is 33 of 45
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Name any of the 3 main countries Russia fought against in the Crimean War | United Kingdom | France | Ottoman Empire | 97%
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| In 2014, Russia annexed this region from Ukraine | Crimea | 94%
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| "Mad Monk" and friend of the tsar's family who was very hard to kill | Grigori Rasputin | 92%
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| In 1867, Russia sold this "icebox" territory to the U.S. | Alaska | 91%
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| Country the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with in 1939; it would soon be broken | Germany | 91%
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| Dynasty which ruled from 1613-1917 | Romanov | 91%
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| Final tsar of Russia who was overthrown in the above and executed | Nicolas II | 90%
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| The 2 tsars with the name "Great" | Peter the Great | 90%
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| Country of 1962 missile crisis | Cuba | 89%
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| The 1st tsar of Russia, not "Great" per say | Ivan the Terrible | 89%
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| In 1905, Russia lost a war to this country, stunning the world | Japan | 88%
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| Former name of Volgograd; its 1943 battle marked a turning point in WW2 | Stalingrad | 86%
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| The last time Moscow was captured by a foreign power was under this conqueror in 1812 | Napoleon | 84%
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| The Winter War, within WW2, was fought with this country | Finland | 83%
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| These conquerors invaded Russia in 1237; the Khan of the Golden Horde would rule until 1480 | Mongols | 83%
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| 1986 nuclear disaster | Chernobyl | 81%
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| Former name of St. Petersburg | Leningrad | 81%
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| Catherine the Great | 80%
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| Final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 80%
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| Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964 | Nikita Khrushchev | 80%
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| Satellite launched in 1957 | Sputnik 1 | 80%
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| Leo Tolstoy's most famous novel | War and Peace | 80%
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| Tsar assassinated in 1881 from a bomb attack; he had abolished serfdom 20 years earlier | Alexander II | 79%
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| Vladimir Putin was of this intelligence branch | KGB | 78%
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| Country which the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, ending a period of Cold War détente | Afghanistan | 76%
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| George Orwell allegorical novella about the Soviet Union | Animal Farm | 74%
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| 1st president of post-Soviet Russia | Boris Yeltsin | 74%
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| Complete the Ronald Reagan quote: "...tear down this ____" | Wall | 72%
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky's most famous novel | Crime and Punishment | 70%
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| Leon Trotsky was assassinated while living in exile in this country | Mexico | 69%
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| 1st man in space in 1961 | Yuri Gagarin | 69%
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| Nickname of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 | October Revolution | 64%
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| Soviet forces crushed a pro-democracy uprising in this country in 1956 | Hungary | 63%
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| A liberalization "Spring" named for this city in 1968 caused the Soviet Union and their Warsaw Pact allies to invade Czechoslovakia | Prague | 62%
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| Country which Lenin was living in prior to the Bolshevik Revolution | Switzerland | 62%
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| Railroad network developed in 1891 | Trans-Siberian | 61%
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| Leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982 | Leonid Brezhnev | 59%
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| The Soviet withdrawal from the above country would allow this group to eventually take control for the first time in 1996 | Taliban | 58%
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| Due to the above, the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics; the Soviet Union would respond by boycotting the 1984 Olympics in this city | Los Angeles | 56%
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| Stalin's 1937 campaign to eliminate opposition; hundreds of thousands were killed | Great Purge/Great Terror | 49%
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| Breakaway republic which Russia invaded on 2 separate occasions | Chechnya | 48%
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| Most powerful bomb ever tested, over a thousand times more powerful than those used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Tsar Bomba | 43%
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| Name either of the 2 leaders who ruled briefly during the period from 1982-1985 | Yuri Andropov | Konstantin Chernenko | 40%
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| Russian opposition leader who died in prison in 2024 | Alexei Navalny | 28%
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| Mercenary group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin until his death | Wagner Group | 26%
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