Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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Sputnik was the first one | Artificial satellite | 91%
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The world's first ______ power plant | Nuclear | 88%
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Type of "table" first published by Mendeleev in 1860 | {Periodic} Table | 87%
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World's most-popular military rifle model | AK-47 | 86%
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Blocky video game | Tetris | 84%
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Children's toy that fits one inside the other | Matryoshka {doll} | 78%
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The earliest form of this amusement park ride | Roller Coaster | 66%
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Jewelled egg | {Fabergé} Egg | 64%
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Type of ship that navigates through ice-covered waters | Icebreaker | 63%
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Salyut 1 was the first, but Mir was the more famous | Space station | 54%
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The discovery of this huge area of land in 1820 | Antarctica | 51%
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The first ICBM that could be launched from one of these | Submarine | 37%
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Metal urn for making tea | Samovar | 34%
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Type of dome seen on many Russian cathedrals | {Onion} Dome | 29%
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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%
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The first practical way to manufacture these diamond lookalikes | Cubic Zirconia | 27%
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Thin Russian pancakes | Blini | 26%
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Carriage drawn by three horses | Troika | 20%
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Infectious agent first discovered by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892 | Virus | 20%
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Pavlov's discovery that he could make a dog salivate by ringing a bell, for example | {Classical} Conditioning | 14%
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