Russia History Quiz 28

Questions

1. What was the name of the Moscow Mayor sacked in 2010?

   1. Duri Fuzkhov
   2. Muri Puzhkov
   3. Suri Duzkhov
   4. Yuri Luzhkov

2. Who was forced to resign his military offices in 1925?

   1. Lenin
   2. Trotsky
   3. Stalin
   4. Leonev

3. Who introduced a regular Army and Navy to Russia?

   1. Catherine the Great
   2. Ivan the Terrible
   3. Ivan The Great
   4. Peter the Great

4. Which Russian famously invented the Torpedo?

   1. Nikolai Korotkov
   2. I. F. Alekandorivksy
   3. Gleb Kotelinkov
   4. Mikhal Tsvet

5. Which of these figures a key god of Scythian religion?

   1. Tabiti
   2. Mabiti
   3. Sabiti
   4. Labiti

6. Which event resulted in the murder of Grigori Rasputin?

   1. 1938
   2. 1916
   3. 1922
   4. 1940

7. When was Tsar Nicholas II executed?

   1. 1925
   2. 1939
   3. 1918
   4. 1901

8. When was Mikhail Gorbachev born?

   1. 1941
   2. 1921
   3. 1951
   4. 1931

9. When did the infamous explosion of the Kursk submarine occur?

   1. 2000
   2. 2002
   3. 2004
   4. 2009

10. When did Peter III become Tsar?

    1. 1863
    2. 1443
    3. 1663
    4. 1763

11. Composer Alexander Borodin lived and died during which century?

    1. 19th
    2. 17th
    3. 20th
    4. 18th

12. What percentage of the vote did Vladimir Putin win in the 2004 Presidential election?

    1. 61
    2. 81
    3. 91
    4. 71

13. TVS was axed in 2003, it was Russia's last remaining what?

    1. Independent Website
    2. Independent Newspaper
    3. Independent Radio Station
    4. Independent TV Channel

14. The Leninist Young league are the youth division of which party?

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

15. Sergeyevich was the middle name of which former political leader?

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

16. Mortar was invented by which famous Russian?

    1. Mikhal Tsvet
    2. Gleb Kotelinkov
    3. Nikolai Korotkov
    4. ZLN Gobyato

17. In which year did Nero remove Cotys I from the throne of the Bosporan Kingdom?

    1. 555 BC
    2. 199 AD
    3. 13 AD
    4. 62 AD

18. In what year did Gorbachev sign a superpower deal with the USA to begin scrapping nuclear warheads?

    1. 1982
    2. 1991
    3. 1987
    4. 1992

19. In 1987, Gorbcahev signed a deal with which nation to scrap nuclear warheads?

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

20. How many months did the Russo-Japanese ware last?

    1. 2
    2. 48
    3. 12
    4. 19