Russia History Quiz 20

Questions

1. What was the name of the first woman ruler of the Rus people?

   1. Hilda
   2. Julia
   3. Catherine
   4. Olga

2. Who was arrested on tax evasion charges in 2003?

   1. Mikhail Khodorkovksy
   2. Vladimir Putin
   3. Sergei Lavarov
   4. Joseph Leningrad

3. Who did Sauromates replace as King of the Bosporan Kingdom?

   1. Supator
   2. Lupator
   3. Eupator
   4. Mupator

4. Which Roman leader defeated Pharnaces II at Zela?

   1. Crassus
   2. Pompey
   3. Nero
   4. Ceaser

5. Which of these facts is NOT true about Valdimir Putin?

   1. He has a daughter called Katerina
   2. He was born in 1933
   3. He became President in 1999
   4. He was in the KGB for 16 years

6. Which composer founded the School of Medicine for Women in St. Petersburg?

   1. Balakirev
   2. Glinka
   3. Tchaikovksy
   4. Borodin

7. When was the Russian tanker Vandal launched, the first diesel powered ship in the world?

   1. 1903
   2. 1988
   3. 1933
   4. 1876

8. When was Dmitry Medvedev elected Russian President?

   1. 2012
   2. 2004
   3. 2008
   4. 2000

9. When did the Cossacks begin their takeover of Siberia?

   1. 981
   2. 1581
   3. 1381
   4. 781

10. When did Ivan the Terrible become Tsar of All the Russia's?

    1. 1342
    2. 1654
    3. 1431
    4. 1547

11. Batu Khan set fire to, and slaughtered the people of, Moscow in which year?

    1. 1238
    2. 1048
    3. 1648
    4. 1448

12. What name was given to the highest rank of Moscovian aristocracy in the middle ages?

    1. Foyar
    2. Moyar
    3. Soyar
    4. Boyar

13. The Video Game Tetris was invented in Russia in what year?

    1. 1974
    2. 2004
    3. 1984
    4. 1994

14. The Geneva Accords signed in 1988 committed to Soviet withdrawal from where?

    1. Japan
    2. Afghanistan
    3. USA
    4. Finland

15. Russia embarked on a 2007 expedition to where to view possible expansion of territory?

    1. North Pole
    2. Siberia
    3. South Pole
    4. Ukraine

16. Leonid Brezhnev passed away in which year of the 1980s?

    1. 1982
    2. 1986
    3. 1989
    4. 1981

17. In which of these years was Catherine the Great NOT alive?

    1. 1730
    2. 1740
    3. 1799
    4. 1750

18. In what period did Samara Culture flourish?

    1. Denolithic
    2. Senolithic
    3. Menolithic
    4. Neolithic

19. In 1478, the Novgorod Republic finally surrendered to the authority of where?

    1. St Petersburg
    2. Moscow
    3. Kiev
    4. Kabul

20. Grigory Orlov was a favourite of which Russian ruler?

    1. Catherine the Great
    2. Ivan the Terrible
    3. Joseph Stalin
    4. Peter the Great