Russian Inventions - Statistics

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Sputnik was the first one	Artificial satellite	91%
The world's first ______ power plant	Nuclear	88%
Type of "table" first published by Mendeleev in 1860	{Periodic} Table	87%
World's most-popular military rifle model	AK-47	86%
Blocky video game	Tetris	84%
Children's toy that fits one inside the other	Matryoshka {doll}	78%
The earliest form of this amusement park ride	Roller Coaster	66%
Jewelled egg	{Fabergé} Egg	64%
Type of ship that navigates through ice-covered waters	Icebreaker	63%
Salyut 1 was the first, but Mir was the more famous	Space station	54%
The discovery of this huge area of land in 1820	Antarctica	51%
The first ICBM that could be launched from one of these	Submarine	37%
Metal urn for making tea	Samovar	34%
Type of dome seen on many Russian cathedrals	{Onion} Dome	29%
Russia was the first country to introduce this type of currency, with one ruble divided into 100 kopeks. The U.K. wouldn't do it until 1971.	{Decimal} currency	28%
The first practical way to manufacture these diamond lookalikes	Cubic Zirconia	27%
Thin Russian pancakes	Blini	26%
Carriage drawn by three horses	Troika	20%
Infectious agent first discovered by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892	Virus	20%
Pavlov's discovery that he could make a dog salivate by ringing a bell, for example	{Classical} Conditioning	14%

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