Russia History Quiz 24

Questions

1. What was the name of the leader who gained control of Lagoda in 862?

   1. Purik
   2. Rurik
   3. Surik
   4. Murik

2. Who was elected Patriarch of Moscow in 1946?

   1. Todor I
   2. Alexius I
   3. Marvel !
   4. Aleksander I

3. Who did Yeltsin narrowly beat in the 1996 elections?

   1. Sprioviev
   2. Leonov
   3. Piov
   4. Zyuganov

4. Which Russia leader was given the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize?

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

5. Which of these famous events happened EARLIEST?

   1. Mongols invade
   2. Ivan thre Terrible Rules
   3. Invan IIII rules
   4. Vladimirr the Great rules Rurik Dynasty

6. Which culture can also be described as Proto-Kurgan?

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

7. When was the T-34 Tank invented in Russia?

   1. 1790
   2. 1890
   3. 1940
   4. 1840

8. When was Kirov murdered?

   1. 1944
   2. 1934
   3. 1972
   4. 1954

9. When did the First Chechen war break out?

   1. 1998
   2. 1984
   3. 1994
   4. 1988

10. When did Lenin pass away?

    1. 1924
    2. 1944
    3. 1934
    4. 1954

11. Boris Yeltsin resigned his post in which year?

    1. 1999
    2. 1983
    3. 1988
    4. 1994

12. What nickname was given to Russian Emperor Alexander II?

    1. The Chief
    2. The King
    3. The Emperor
    4. The Power

13. Tillia Tepe, a key archaeological site, has a name that loosely translates was what?

    1. Silk Tower
    2. Bronze Beast
    3. Golden Hill
    4. Silver Mountains

14. The Kerch Strait, home of the Bosporan Kingdom, separates the Sea of Azov from what other sea?

    1. Black Sea
    2. North Sea
    3. Dead Sea
    4. Red Sea

15. Samara Culture flourished in what century?

    1. 227th BC
    2. 88th BC
    3. 2nd AD
    4. 5th BC

16. Mikal Kalashnikov famously invented the AK47. What is the AK47?

    1. Hot Air Ballon
    2. Rifle
    3. Computer
    4. Car

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

    1. 1742
    2. 1732
    3. 1811
    4. 1752

18. In what year did Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of graphene?

    1. 2001
    2. 2014
    3. 2005
    4. 2010

19. In 1838, which Russia invented the Electric Boat?

    1. Boris Jacobi
    2. Pavel Schilling
    3. Alexander Lodygin
    4. Ivan Elmanov

20. Herodotus first mentioned the existence of Scythian Peoples in which modern day country?

    1. Moldova
    2. Lithuania
    3. Latvia
    4. Ukraine