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Russia Country Quiz

Can you name these facts about the country of Russia?
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First submittedApril 17, 2013
Times taken104,186
Average score66.7%
Rating4.84
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Question
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Capital city
Moscow
Capital prior to 1918
St. Petersburg
Communist name of that city
Leningrad
Current President
Vladimir Putin
Soviet equivalent of the CIA
KGB
Mountain ranges dividing
Europe and Asia
Urals
Caucasus
Name for Soviet prison camps
Gulags
Sea bordering Sochi
Black Sea
War and Peace author
Leo Tolstoy
"Great" tsars
Peter
Catherine II
"Terrible" tsar
Ivan IV
Highest mountain
Mount Elbrus
He failed to conquer
Russia in 1812
Napoleon
Question
Answer
Items on the Soviet flag
Hammer
Sickle
Star
Fish used for traditional caviar
Sturgeon
Largest Russian city on the Pacific
Vladivostok
Metal boiler for making tea
Samovar
Official residence of the President
Moscow Kremlin
Most famous ballet theater
Bolshoi Theatre
First satellite to orbit Earth
Sputnik
First person to orbit Earth
Yuri Gagarin
Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
Vast Eastern region of Russia
Siberia
Most famous Russian firearm
AK-47
"Turning point" battle in WWII
Battle of Stalingrad
Longest river in European Russia
Volga
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101 Recent Comments
PacoGee
+2
Level 44
Jan 19, 2015
I just want to say I like Russia and couldn't spell the dang Cacucus mountains right.. lol
ddddan
+3
Level 82
Nov 9, 2015
I bet you can spell Caucasian ;)
Sifhraven
+7
Level 73
Aug 26, 2019
Couscous? ;)
Sifhraven
+3
Level 73
Aug 26, 2019
Or cactus :p
MammothSammoth15
+1
Level 31
Jul 4, 2015
Missed Mt. Elbrus and The Nutcraker......I am ashamed.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Nov 10, 2015
I only missed Elbrus. I can never remember each country's highest mountain.
QuizWol
+1
Level 65
Aug 18, 2019
I missed it because I spelled it wrong.
Wistful
+4
Level 72
Jan 30, 2023
The only reason I know it is because it's considered the tallest peak in Europe.
Gyrenaica
+2
Level 35
Nov 9, 2015
21/30 never studied much of Russia.
LarryLovage
+2
Level 55
Nov 9, 2015
Only found out about the Christmas connection with the ballet relatively recently. I guess other countries have that instead of pantomime. 30/30, surprised myself, even though I have actually visited Russia.
Stanke
+1
Level 29
Jul 29, 2016
You should accept Balshoy.
yuzhuk
+12
Level 58
Feb 16, 2017
Yau shauld accept Balshay.
wiifly
+4
Level 61
Aug 22, 2020
I don't get how this is supposed to be a comeback, changing the all the 'o's in that sentence to 'a's vastly changes the wording of the sentence, whereas changing the 'i' to a 'y' in bolshoi doesn't change the pronunciation and makes perfect sense.
Ajno239
+2
Level 23
Feb 23, 2023
In fact it's pronounced more like "balshoy" in Russian, with an [a] sound, because we don't pronounce unstressed o's clearly, but it's still spelled большой (bolshoy), so the idea is still strange lol
hellodrew
+3
Level 66
Jan 27, 2017
only missed Samovar, had no idea for it but now i know!
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Oct 11, 2017
Same. But I'll forget in a few minutes
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Jan 2, 2019
A year later and I now can remember all of these answers.
FHIUHEOEIHOE
+2
Level 47
Dec 30, 2021
kalbahamut, stop letting me down
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Nov 11, 2022
did you miss my follow-up comment? Or are you disappointed that it took me a year to finally remember it?
eibi
+12
Level 80
Aug 30, 2017
The capital until 1918 was Petrograd, not St Petersburg - since 1914 anyway.
DarthCaedus66
+1
Level 12
Oct 11, 2017
Excuse me,but you forgot AN ACTUALLY AMAZING SOVIET/COLD WAR ERA MOVIE CLUE
mrnafe
+2
Level 84
Jun 12, 2018
Is it Rocky IV?
IXON009
+3
Level 38
Jun 3, 2018
Imagine that 5% that missed Putin.
Rallefus
+1
Level 57
Apr 10, 2021
To be fair, he hasn't been President all of the time. At some of the periods he has been Prime Minister (though always actually being the man in power) because Russian law prohibited him from holding the title for all of the period. So you would have to know in which periods he has been President and which he has been Prime Minister and match it to the quiz date
FHIUHEOEIHOE
+3
Level 47
Dec 30, 2021
Imagine that <1% missed Moscow.
Dabossishere
+1
Level 44
Jun 12, 2018
Samovar that's my only miss, I didn't know.
ShnevorSomeone
+7
Level 61
Jun 13, 2018
please accept "avtomat kalashnikova 1947" because that is the official name
Osiris
+1
Level 65
Jun 13, 2018
Weisenheimer.
Deathslayer
+1
Level 40
Jan 20, 2025
damn. thanks for giving me a new word!
FolgoreCZ
+7
Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
Do you feel better about yourself now?
Soren765
+1
Level 38
May 6, 2022
No one wants to say all that
Gassu
+5
Level 70
Oct 18, 2018
We can argue about the whole is-Cyprus-Asian-or-European debate, but we can't deny the fact that this country has the best national anthem
kalbahamut
+12
Level 81
Jan 2, 2019
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.

All other countries are run by little girls.

Sifhraven
+3
Level 73
Aug 26, 2019
I looked it up, honestly i see nothing special about it. I really like the uzbekistan one though :)
shinboy
+5
Level 75
Apr 17, 2019
Listened to Kalinka and Katyusha while playing this quiz. Not a mistake.
theperiodictable
+2
Level 46
Jun 5, 2019
yeah the proleteriat
theperiodictable
+1
Level 46
Jun 5, 2019
russia is the place where it's at
Sifhraven
+3
Level 73
Aug 26, 2019
I tried gulas(h) and gaugin. I knew they werent right but it was as close as my might would get me. A miracle i didnt try erebus for elbus ;) then again i was totally blank on that one though on hindsight i do recognise it.
zakatan
+5
Level 65
Aug 28, 2019
it didn't accept Vladiwoodstock :(
Kalleanon
+3
Level 66
Jan 30, 2020
It took me forever to get Catherine, mostly because she was a tsarina, not a tsar. (Technically she was an empress, but that's nitpicking.)
JohnK
+1
Level 69
Aug 16, 2020
Same.
stubart409
+2
Level 68
May 5, 2020
Got them all except for Mt Elbrus. Tried Kursk first as battle for turning point in WW2.
cadeu
+1
Level 47
Jun 2, 2020
apparently this quiz is a bit communist
cadeu
+1
Level 47
Jun 2, 2020
i got all the communist questions correct...the rest wrong
Islandcarver
+1
Level 81
Jul 10, 2020
I'd say communism, like capitalism, is a good ideology in principle, but when practiced by humans it turns horrible.
FolgoreCZ
+3
Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
Islandcarver: Literally every time a country tried to do communism, it ended up in horrible attrocities, famines, death and suffering (USSR, China, North Korea, Cambodia, etc.). Yet, people always claim it's not the fault of the system, but rather the people and the system inntheory is good. It's just not.
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 91
Jul 10, 2020
Russia was a bit communist for a time...
lieoua
+8
Level 34
Jul 4, 2020
I be like okay that’s all easy but wtf is CIA???

Ah, it’s American KGB...

wonder how many guys from Russia had the same problem))

WoodyJohnson
+4
Level 63
Jul 10, 2020
For a curiosity: The one and only success-finished siege of Moscow was in 1610 by polish troops called Husaria. In Russia time when polish army stayed in Moscow calls Smuta (Time of Troubles)
FolgoreCZ
+1
Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
Thats just simply not true. Napoleon conquered Moscow without any trouble, it was after, when russians pulled the pro gamer move of burning it down, when things went down the drain for him. Mongols also razed Moscow when they had their time there.
WoodyJohnson
+3
Level 63
Jul 10, 2020
That's why i wrote SIEGE. Napoleon didn't siege a city. Russians after battle of Borodino abandoned and burned down Moscow so Napoleon took destroyed city without any fight. With Mongols - I agree with you but the fact is that Poles stayed in Moscow for the longer time - over 2 years (1610-1612)
TheRatmeister
+1
Level 91
Jul 10, 2020
Please accept Petrograd for St Petersburg as that was the name at the time.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Jul 10, 2020
Who said it wasn't accepted?
PeregrineFalcon
+2
Level 77
Jul 10, 2020
It's accepted for Leningrad. But it does also work for the St Petersburg hint. The name Petrograd was used from 1914 to 1924. But anyone who knows Petrograd will also know St Petersburg.
kaderschaufel
+1
Level 72
Jul 10, 2020
Can't believe so many people missed Elbrus. It's one of the seven summits!
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Jul 10, 2020
What seven summits?
morcaca
+2
Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
The highest mountains on each continent. They are: Denali (North America), Aconcagua (South America), Elbrus (Europe), Everest (Asia), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Vinson (Antarctica) ans either Puncak Jaya or Kosciusko (Oceania) based on whether you’re using Oceania or counting border areas, such as the Indonesian part of New Guinea and Hawaii.
stylus
+1
Level 78
Jun 19, 2021
by that logic it’s two of the seven summits! definitely worth a visit then ;)
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Jul 4, 2021
Oh I see
mattBk
+1
Level 73
Jul 10, 2020
I read ballet dancer and kept trying every variation on Baryshnikov
Shamooski19
+1
Level 68
Aug 5, 2020
Honestly! how are u supposed to spell Vladivastock! no? Vladivatsok! no? well ummmmmmmm Vlidivastok? Vlidivostok? Vladivostock!
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 74
Sep 30, 2020
It's spelt as it's pronounced: Vla-di-vos-tok
johnappleseed
+2
Level 48
Nov 7, 2020
you should accept petrograd as a type-in for st. petersburg not for leningrad.
jeebee
+5
Level 67
Nov 12, 2020
technically speaking, Catherine was a tsarina (or empress). Saying she was a tsar is similar to saying the UK is currently ruled by king elizabeth... XD
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Jul 16, 2023
RIP.
parkave
+1
Level 57
Jan 6, 2021
Surprised so few got ak-47
hannahgeographyy
+2
Level 60
Jan 25, 2021
i only got kgb bc of the office lol
DENCRO
+2
Level 52
Jan 26, 2021
I wouldn't boast too much about your dayjob here. I think you're supposed to remain anonymous.
PLSiHaveRayGun
+2
Level 21
Feb 11, 2021
welcome to the gulag
tazaja
+1
Level 58
Mar 22, 2021
can you accept "stalingrad" for "battle of stalingrad"
xXViolaXx
+1
Level 67
Sep 28, 2021
There's a fantastic movie starring Jude Law and Ed Harris called "Enemy at the Gates"
FNWY4life
+1
Level 71
May 3, 2021
Petrograd is accepted for Leningrad.
NathanB001
+4
Level 33
Jun 29, 2021
Great quiz, but nothing on chess! Russia is literally the most famous country in history for chess performance and domination--for the latter three quarters of the twentieth century. Names like Botvinnik, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov (although the latter technically is from Baku in Azerbaijan).

Also, it would have been nice to see something on Dostoyevsky. Tolstoy wrote two novels that are household words; Dostoyevsky wrote three (and more, if you include Devils and A Raw Youth). There's also other writers like Gogol, Turgenev, and the Russian Shakespeare in terms of his poetry--Pushkin.

I also didn't see anything at all about Lenin, which seems a great shame.

Too bad the deepest and largest (by volume!!!) freshwater lake in the world, Lake Baikal, didn't make it on.

Having said all that, you have made a great quiz here, even a much longer quiz on any country would always miss so much. I write all this as an admirer of your excellent quiz! :-)

Koult45
+4
Level 53
Jul 4, 2021
Should accept 'Petrograd' for question "Capital prior to 1918", because that's what the name was at the time of revolution.
Inferno46
+1
Level 54
May 2, 2022
Yeah, for some reason it only accepts Petrograd for Leningrad.
Jelsiwifish
+1
Level 22
Sep 6, 2021
vladivostok is so fricking hard to spell. so is yuri gagarin keep forgetting
RJG
+1
Level 63
Feb 10, 2023
I spelt it easy. just vlad-ivo-stok
coookie100
+2
Level 26
Jan 17, 2022
I knew samovar because of a roblox game
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 74
Apr 11, 2022
26, missed Black Sea somehow, Mount Elbrus, Samovar, and Bolshoi
prederone
+2
Level 55
Apr 24, 2022
can you accept tolstoj?
tallpotatoperson
+4
Level 71
Oct 27, 2022
I can never remember Yuri Gagarin's last name. Ended up typing 'Yuri Gargamel'
Dperez
+2
Level 73
Apr 28, 2024
Yuri Gargantua and Pantagruel
RJG
+1
Level 63
Feb 10, 2023
30/30 well pleased. Surprised Samovar tanks are so little known. People often buy them here in the UK as a novelty.
Milo74
+1
Level 70
Feb 15, 2023
The first time I took this quiz, many months ago (if not over a year ago), I got 25/28. This time I got 28/28. I missed AK-47 and "Battle of Stalingrad". Instead I tried "Volgograd", which Jetpunk should have accepted, but nevertheless.

One thing that infuriates me about "things Russian" is how the names of countries are changed and (misappropriated) into English and abused in the vernacular. It's as if "Russian" stands for "Rushin", and "Rushin" is a bad thing (and this speaks to mass misconception of humility as obsequiousness whereas it can also, and instead, be about acting urgently, decisively and forcibly). So it isn't always a bad thing. With so many school shootings and mass shootings and Covid and so much other craziness, the wheels of justice grind AWFULLY slow, and in that case, I would think that "Rushin" would be a VERY good thing. If that's the case, then clone Vladimir Putin a hundred million times and import him into the USA ON THE DOUBLE!!!

WhelchareHistroy
+1
Level 51
Feb 23, 2023
"Battle of Volgograd" makes more sense having "Battle of Stalingrad" since that is the only real name of the battle, if this asked "what city this battle happended at that would make sense for a Volgograd type in
DanielBigB
+1
Level 23
Mar 24, 2023
Since I'm from UK and like 13 ( I had no clue what I was doing xd ) I DIDNT GET A SINGLE ONE LOL
Reneslav
+2
Level 50
Apr 13, 2023
This quiz is not about Russia, it is more about the Soviet Union and further history. While I think that a quiz like this needs to have a little bit of history in it, it is too much to make this kind of quiz so much about its history, mainly the Soviet Union. This is a quiz on Russia as a country today.
Reneslav
+1
Level 50
Apr 13, 2023
And please fix the Petrograd-Leningrad thing, Petrograd is a name given by the tsar in WW1 to sound less german, because they were fighting the Germans. Leningrad came only after the revolution and the dissolution of the Tsardom of Russia. Pertrograd has nothing to do with communism.
MCdoesgeography
+2
Level 71
Apr 20, 2023
Would have expected a lot more to know about Mt. Elbrus :0
thorafl
+1
Level 51
Jun 19, 2023
26/30 although i am russian
protector441
+1
Level 48
Jul 15, 2023
Please, accept samowar transcription as well.
Chernobog
+1
Level 65
Jan 23, 2024
You seriously didn't accept "Piotrogród" for Petersburg?
Barroszt
+1
Level 17
Apr 9, 2024
To jest angielską wersją językową, dlatego nie ma możliwości zaakceptowania obcojęzycznych nazw, gdy istnieje angielska nazwa.
Ptcairn
+1
Level 62
May 2, 2024
Can you accept "Yuri" for the first person to orbit the earth question?
chillypheese
+1
Level 55
Sep 27, 2024
Yuri is a male first name. Seeing as how there were multiple male cosmonauts named "Yuri", I think Gagarin would be a more appropriate answer. Besides, most people who know about Gagarin know him by his surname.
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 60
Mar 31, 2025
I can never remember his last name either. I think my brain rejected it.
Fiodor
+1
Level 59
May 19, 2024
Please accept "Petrograd" for the capital city prior 1918 and maybe "Sakha", "Irkoutsk", "Krasnoiarsk" or "Kamtchatka" for "vast eastern region of Russia" or change the item for "the part of Russia in the east of Ural" (the regions I mentioned are indeed corresponding to the description "vast eastern region of Russia").
DawlatFilastin88
+1
Level 58
May 30, 2024
Too much Soviet centric
Scythebrine
+1
Level 55
Apr 16, 2025
Then don't take the quiz, it's about Russia after all :P
Turtlelover11
+1
Level 20
Nov 16, 2024
Actually, Peter and Catherine II are considered emperors and not tsars because in 1721 Peter declared Russia an empire.
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 60
Mar 31, 2025
Thanks to The Gulag Archipelago for teaching me gulag, Uncle Vanya for teaching me samovars, and War and Peace for teaching me War and Peace. Reading's great!
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