Russia History Quiz 22

Questions

1. What was the name of the Goth King who ruled the area of Oium?

   1. Milimer
   2. Silimer
   3. Pilimer
   4. Filimer

2. Who was co-march for a period with Peter the Great?

   1. Ivan VII
   2. Peter VI
   3. Catherine I
   4. Ivan V

3. Who did the National Council elect as Tsar in 1613?

   1. Henry Tulov
   2. Michael Romanov
   3. Daniel Cristov
   4. Samuel Blanov

4. Which Roman leader restored the Bosporan Kingdom to Asander and Dynamis in 44 BC?

   1. Nero
   2. Caligula
   3. Augustus
   4. Octavian

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

   1. He was born in 1966
   2. Former KGB Officer
   3. He became President in 1999
   4. He was born in 1952

6. Which composer, inspired by Russian history, wrote the opera Borus Godunov?

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

7. When was the Socialist Revolutionary Party founded?

   1. 1911
   2. 1931
   3. 1921
   4. 1901

8. When was Ivan Rybin first appointed as Chairman of the State Duman?

   1. 1994
   2. 1992
   3. 1996
   4. 1998

9. When did the event known as "Bloody Sunday" in Russia occur?

   1. 1965
   2. 1945
   3. 1905
   4. 1925

10. When did Konstantin Chernenko ascend to become General Secretary of the Party?

    1. 1992
    2. 1988
    3. 1984
    4. 1996

11. Boris Gryzlov was the first Chairman of which party?

    1. United Russia
    2. LDPR
    3. A Just Russia
    4. Communist Party

12. What name was given to the Road that famously carried food into Leningrad during the siege of 1941?

    1. Road of Hope
    2. Road of Life
    3. Road of Trust
    4. Road of Food

13. The Yanma culture was centred around what a modern day area?

    1. Estonia
    2. Ukraine
    3. Latvia
    4. Moscow

14. The Gulag Archipelago was a famous work by whom?

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

15. Russia stopped gas supplies to which nation in 2009?

    1. Georgia
    2. Italy
    3. Germany
    4. Ukraine

16. Lolita (1955) is the most famous work by whom?

    1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Vladimir Nabokov
    4. Maxim Gorky

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

    1. 1805
    2. 1740
    3. 1730
    4. 1750

18. In what year did Aleksander Loran invent Fire Fighting Foam?

    1. 1988
    2. 1902
    3. 1914
    4. 1934

19. In 1485 Ivan annexed the Grand Duchy of where?

    1. Siver
    2. Miver
    3. Liver
    4. Tiver

20. Grigory Yavlinksy founded which Russian Political Party?

    1. A Just Russia
    2. Communist Party
    3. LDPR
    4. Yabloko