Russia History Quiz 21

Questions

1. What was the name of the Goth king who led the Ouim takeover of Russian lands in the 3rd Century BC?

   1. Dillimer
   2. Fillimer
   3. Sillimer
   4. Millimer

2. Who was born in Stavropol Krai in 1931?

   1. Gorbachev
   2. Stalin
   3. Khrushchev
   4. Yeltsin

3. Who did Stalin personally invited back to the Soviet Union in 1936?

   1. Maxim Gorky
   2. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
   3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   4. Leo Tolstoy

4. Which Roman leader placed Polemon in charge of the Pontus Kingdom?

   1. Agrippa
   2. Nero
   3. Justinian
   4. Caligula

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

   1. He was in the KGB for 16 years
   2. He became President in 1999
   3. He was born in 1944
   4. He was born in 1952

6. Which composer was honoured in 1884 by Emperor Alexander III?

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

7. When was the Siege of Kazan?

   1. 1552
   2. 1032
   3. 1777
   4. 1332

8. When was Gorbachev detained by the KGB at his villa in Crimea?

   1. 1999
   2. 1991
   3. 1995
   4. 1988

9. When did the Coup attempt, involving installing Yananyev as leader, occur?

   1. 1981
   2. 1985
   3. 1995
   4. 1991

10. When did Khrushchev become the First Secretary of the Community Party?

    1. 1963
    2. 1973
    3. 1953
    4. 1983

11. Blogger Alexei Navalny was imprisoned in which year?

    1. 2013
    2. 2011
    3. 2005
    4. 2008

12. What name was given to the popular Revolution of the late 1980s?

    1. The Joyous Revolution
    2. The Dancing Revolution
    3. The Singing Revolution
    4. The Shouting Revolution

13. The Yanma Culture flourished in which age?

    1. Bronze
    2. Ice
    3. Iron
    4. Middle

14. The Golden Mountains of Altai, a UNESCO World Hertiage site, are most associated with which culture?

    1. Pazyryk
    2. Lamara
    3. Kama
    4. Samara

15. Russia mobilised its army in 1914 to defend which country?

    1. Italy
    2. Israel
    3. Germany
    4. Serbia

16. Levshinsky is one of the final eras in the history of what prehistoric culture?

    1. Scythian
    2. Kama
    3. Khvalysnk
    4. Samara

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

    1. 1802
    2. 1741
    3. 1751
    4. 1731

18. In what year as the Battle of Suzdal?

    1. 1115
    2. 1445
    3. 1335
    4. 1225

19. In 1480, Ivans forces defeated Akhmat Khan on which river?

    1. Urga
    2. Surga
    3. Murga
    4. Lurga

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

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