Russia History Quiz 27

Questions

1. What was the name of the Mongol Khan who looted and burned Moscow in 1382?

   1. Danielson
   2. Tokhtamysh
   3. Mokatish
   4. Loggareti

2. Who was father of Ivan the Great?

   1. Kremlin I
   2. Vasili II
   3. Mark II
   4. Peter III

3. Who founded, and has led, the LDPR Party since 1991?

   1. Maxim Turkev
   2. Vladimir Zhirinovsky
   3. Sami Zayn
   4. Damien Lillard

4. Which Russian famously invented the means to measure blood pressure?

   1. Mikhal Tsvet
   2. Nikolai Korotkov
   3. Mikhail Kalashnikov
   4. Alexander Popov

5. Which of these famous events happened EARLIEST?

   1. Crimean War
   2. Ivan three Terrible Rules
   3. Mikhail Romanov becaomes Tsar
   4. Peter the Great Rules

6. Which dynasty was annexed by Russia in 1474?

   1. Costov
   2. Bostov
   3. Lostove
   4. Rostov

7. When was the Yabloko party founded?

   1. 1990
   2. 1998
   3. 2001
   4. 1993

8. When was Mikhail Gorbachev awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

   1. 1985
   2. 1990
   3. 1995
   4. 2000

9. When did the first Nuclear Power Plant open in Russia?

   1. 1954
   2. 1974
   3. 1984
   4. 1964

10. When did Obama first visit Moscow?

    1. 2012
    2. 2006
    3. 2009
    4. 2015

11. Collectivisation of Agriculture was a key policy of whom?

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

12. What percentage of the vote did the LDPR win in the 2011 Elections?

    1. 0.114
    2. 0.683
    3. 0.226
    4. 0.44

13. Trotsky was assassinated in which year?

    1. 1970
    2. 1940
    3. 1960
    4. 1950

14. The last remaining independent TV channel was axed in Russia in which year?

    1. 2003
    2. 2009
    3. 2012
    4. 2006

15. Sergey Mironov led which party between 2006 and 20011?

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

16. Mikhail Suslov died of a heart attack in which year?

    1. 1996
    2. 1982
    3. 1992
    4. 1988

17. In which town was the infamous industrial show trials of 1928?

    1. Martkey
    2. Narvy
    3. Pothety
    4. Shakhty

18. In what year did Chernenko die?

    1. 1995
    2. 1990
    3. 2000
    4. 1985

19. In 1911, Vladimir Vernadsky claimed discovery of which element?

    1. Hafnium
    2. Mafium
    3. Lafium
    4. Safium

20. How many houses are there in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation?

    1. 8
    2. 6
    3. 4
    4. 2