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Russian History A-Z - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 30,905 times
12,255 since last reset
- The average score is 18 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| A | Territory that Russia sold to the United States in 1867 for just $7.2 million | Alaska | 99%
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| J | Russia nearly lost its entire Pacific fleet in a disastrous war with this country in 1904–05 | Japan | 93%
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| G | Siberian prison system during the reign of Joseph Stalin | Gulag | 92%
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| I | The first Tsar of Russia | Ivan the Terrible | 91%
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| B | Communist faction that came to power in 1917 | Bolsheviks | 90%
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| H | One of the items on the Soviet flag | Hammer | 90%
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| S | Former name of Volgograd | Stalingrad | 89%
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| N | The last tsar of Russia, executed in 1918 | Nicholas II | 88%
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| U | In an event called the Holodomor, Soviet leaders inflicted a terrible famine on this country, killing millions | Ukraine | 81%
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| P | "Table" first published by Mendeleev in 1860 | {Periodic} Table | 78%
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| Y | The first democratically-elected leader in Russian history | Boris Yeltsin | 77%
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| T | Writer who died in 1910 having never won a Nobel Prize, considered to be one of the greatest omissions in its history | Leo Tolstoy | 76%
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| K | Soviet leader who de-Stalinized the country in the 1950s | Nikita Khrushchev | 75%
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| R | Royal house that ruled Russia from 1613–1917 | Romanov | 74%
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| O | Term for a businessman who acquired rapid wealth shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union | Oligarch | 73%
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| W | Army that fought against the Communists from 1917–1921 | {White} Army | 69%
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| L | Space dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth in 1957 | Laika | 68%
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| E | Churchill described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an _____" | Enigma | 67%
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| D | Author who said "If there is no God, everything is permitted" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 66%
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| C | Federal subject of Russia that tried to break away in the 1990s | Chechnya | 56%
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| F | The first of the two 1917 revolutions | {February} Revolution | 51%
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| V | Group of northern people who ruled over the Kievan Rus' | Vikings | 51%
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| M | Foreign minister who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov | 49%
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| Z | Most-decorated Soviet general of WWII | Georgy Zhukov | 43%
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| X | Princess consort of Tver who is counted as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church, her name is Greek for "hospitality" | {Xenia} of Tarusa | 25%
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| Q | Alliance of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain against France in 1815 | {Quadruple} Alliance | 22%
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