Russia History Quiz 25

Questions

1. What was the name of the legal code issued by Ivan in 1497?

   1. Sudebnik
   2. Lubenik
   3. Quebenik
   4. Dubenik

2. Who was elected Prime Minister in 1998?

   1. Mevgeny Simakov
   2. Levgeny Dimakov
   3. Yevgeny Primakov
   4. Sevgeny Yimakov

3. Who ended their blockade of Russia joining the WTO in 2011?

   1. France
   2. Georgia
   3. China
   4. USA

4. Which Russian city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?

   1. St Petersburg
   2. Samara
   3. Sochi
   4. Moscow

5. Which of these famous events happened EARLIEST?

   1. Mongols invade
   2. Invan IIII rules
   3. Mikhail Romanov becaomes Tsar
   4. Ivan thre Terrible Rules

6. Which culture thrived in the Perm and Kirov regions in 5tyh century BC Russia?

   1. Kama
   2. Mama
   3. Tama
   4. Fama

7. When was the term for he President increased from 4 to 6 years?

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

8. When was Lenin born?

   1. 1855
   2. 1870
   3. 1974
   4. 1901

9. When did the first congress of the Comitern begin?

   1. 1919
   2. 1945
   3. 1933
   4. 1922

10. When did Lithuania declare its independence?

    1. 1989
    2. 1982
    3. 1998
    4. 1991

11. Borovoy Lake is the considered to be a key area in the first phase of which culture?

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

12. What nikcname was given to Mstislav Mstislavich?

    1. The Warm
    2. The Cold
    3. The Bold
    4. The Heartless

13. Tokhtamysh who looted and burnt Moscow in 1382 was a leader of which people?

    1. Huns
    2. Goths
    3. Mongol
    4. Tatars

14. The Khasav Yurt Accord official ended what conflict?

    1. Polish War
    2. First Chechen War
    3. Cold War
    4. Afghan War

15. Satyrus defeated which of his brothers at the Battle of the River Thatis?

    1. Cotys
    2. Spartocus
    3. Eumelus
    4. Leucon

16. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, arrested in 2003 on tax evasion charges, was the headed of which Oil Company?

    1. Zukos
    2. Mukos
    3. Fukos
    4. Yukos

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

    1. 1753
    2. 1743
    3. 1733
    4. 1814

18. In what year did Boris Yeltsin use military force to dissolved parliament and call new elections?

    1. 1993
    2. 1991
    3. 1995
    4. 2003

19. In 1849, a note form Tsar Nicolas II saved which writer from execution?

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

20. How is the Kuleshov Effect used in film better known?

    1. Edit
    2. Clipping
    3. Montage
    4. Fade Out