100 Questions about Russia - Statistics

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The average score is 61 of 100

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Capital	Moscow	99%
2nd-biggest city	St. Petersburg	97%
Current president	Vladimir Putin	97%
Colors on their flag	Red	96%
Colors on their flag	White	96%
Colors on their flag	Blue	95%
Its leader 1922-1953	Joseph Stalin	95%
Its first leader	Vladimir Lenin	95%
Very popular alcoholic drink	Vodka	94%
Its abbreviation	U.S.S.R.	93%
Vast Eastern region, sparsely populated	Siberia	91%
Longest river in Europe	Volga	91%
^ is on which Sea?	{Black} Sea	90%
Peninsula annexed in 2014	Crimea	90%
Residence of the President	Kremlin	89%
Its ideology	Communism	88%
Form of christianity popular in Eastern Europe	Orthodoxy	88%
The 'terrible' leader	Ivan the Terrible	87%
^ was member of this security agency	KGB	86%
Title used for leaders, derived from Caesar	Tsar	84%
Mountainous borders between Europe and Asia	Ural	84%
The two 'great' leaders	{Peter} the Great	83%
First satellite in space	Sputnik 1	83%
This peninsula was part of this country before 2014	Ukraine	83%
Labor camp system	Gulag	82%
Its former name	Leningrad	82%
Last emperor of Russia	Nicholas II.	82%
First human in space	Yuri Gagarin	81%
2014 Winter Olympics location	Sochi	79%
^ flows into this Sea	{Caspian} Sea	78%
Russia, officially	Russian Federation	77%
Mr. .... , tear down this wall!	Mikhail Gorbachev	76%
Former name of Volgograd	Stalingrad	76%
Longest railway line in the world	{Trans-Siberian} Railway	76%
Biggest port on the Pacific	Vladivostok	76%
Other word for ^, meaning "grandmother"	Babushka	75%
The two 'great' leaders	{Catherine} the Great	75%
Socialist state, predecessor of Russia	Soviet Union	74%
First president	Boris Yeltsin	73%
Martial art practiced by him	Judo	73%
Writer regarded as one of the greatest authors, War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	73%
This revolution was led by the ....	Bolsheviks	72%
The two biggest Russian lakes	Lake Baikal	71%
Writing system used in Russia	Cyrillic	67%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Ob	67%
Video game with the goal to drop blocks down to make lines	Tetris	66%
He was the leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis	Nikita Khrushchev	65%
Revolution in Russia in 1917	{October} Revolution	65%
Christmas ballet by Tchaikovsky	The Nutcracker	65%
Year of Russia's last independence	1991	64%
Mountainous borders between Europe and Asia	Caucasus	63%
First animal to orbit the Earth	Laika	61%
Caucasian region which has tried to leave Russia	Chechnya	59%
What Russia held in 2018	FIFA World Cup	59%
Russian novelist, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	59%
Peninsula in the Far East	Kamchatka	59%
World-famous church in the capital	Saint Basil's Cathedral	59%
President 2008-2012	Dmitry Medvedev	56%
Highest mountain of Russia	Elbrus	56%
Peasant and faith healer	Grigori Rasputin	56%
Lower house of the Federal Assembly	State Duma	56%
Famous firearm also known as 'AK-47'	Kalashnikov	55%
Type of administrative division in Russia	Oblast	55%
Russia's largest island	Sakhalin	55%
The country's name in Russian	Rossiya / Россия	53%
Jeweled egg	Fabergé	52%
This separates ^ from the President's residence	Red Square	52%
Brand of cars, popular in Eastern Europe	Lada	51%
Largest city north of the Arctic Circle	Murmansk	51%
Holiday celebrated on 9 May	Victory Day	49%
Form of power where a few people have much power	Oligarchy	48%
Typical Russian stringed musical instrument	Balalaika	47%
Words often used by ^, publicity and reformation	glasnost	47%
Museum of art und culture, Winter Palace building	Hermitage	47%
Words often used by ^, publicity and reformation	perestroika	47%
Popular sour soup	Borscht	46%
Large company focused on production, transport and sale of oil and gas	Gazprom	43%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Lena	43%
Space station that operated 1986-2001	MIR	38%
Best-paid female athlete	Maria Sharapova	37%
Name the three longest rivers of Russia	Yenisey	37%
The two biggest Russian lakes	Lake Ladoga	35%
Set of wooden dolls that can be placed inside another	Matryoshka	35%
City formerly known as Gorky	Nizhny Novgorod	35%
Archipelago claimed by Japan und Russia	Kuril Islands	34%
City in Western Russia or 2000 submarine disaster	Kursk	34%
Term used in Russia for the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945	Great Patriotic War	29%
Loose federation of tribes, 882-1240	Kievan Rus	25%
Biggest city on the above	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	23%
Ring of cities around Moscow	Golden Ring	22%
Industrial city in the very north closed to all non-Russians (except for Belarusians)	Norilsk	22%
Archipelago where the Tsar Bomba was tested	Novaya Zemlya	20%
Famous Russian ice hockey player, currently playing in the U.S. for the Washington Capitals	Alexander Ovechkin	19%
One of the best hockey leagues in the world	KHL	18%
Peninsula which forms the easternmost part of Asia	Chukchi	17%
Upper house of the Federal Assembly	Federation Council	12%
The last island where mammoths lived	Wrangel	12%
Town with temperature extremes, 35°C in summer, -65°C in winter	Oymyakon	11%
Peninsula which forms the northernmost part of Eurasia	Taymyr	8%
Bronze monument which shows 1,000 years of Russian history	Millennium of Russia	6%