Russia History Quiz 29

Questions

1. What was the name of the Nuclear Reactor in Iran that Russian agreed to send fuel to in 2005?

   1. Bushehr
   2. Fushehr
   3. Mushehr
   4. Lushehr

2. Who was known as "The Merry Empress"?

   1. Olga
   2. Julia
   3. Elizabeth
   4. Catherine

3. Who introduced the State Duman?

   1. Tsar Alexander II
   2. Lenin
   3. Tsar Nicholas II
   4. Stalin

4. Which Russian featured in the first concert at New York's Carnegie Hall?

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

5. Which of these figures was born in Georgia?

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

6. Which figure is sometimes refereed to as the "gatherer of Russian Lands"?

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

7. When was United Russia founded?

   1. 2001
   2. 2011
   3. 2007
   4. 2009

8. When was Mir launched into space?

   1. 2004
   2. 1997
   3. 1992
   4. 1986

9. When did the Kama Culture begin in Eastern Europe?

   1. 24th Century BC
   2. 88th Century BC
   3. 5th Century BC
   4. 11th Century BC

10. When did Putin become acting President of Russia?

    1. 1997
    2. 1999
    3. 1994
    4. 1995

11. CP are the initial on the badge of which political party?

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

12. What post did outspoken Aleksander Rutskoy hold during the early 90s?

    1. General Secretary
    2. Home Secretary
    3. Prime Minister
    4. Vice President

13. Uncle Vanya is a notable Russian work by whom?

    1. Maxim Gorky
    2. Leo Tolstoy
    3. Vladimir Nabokov
    4. Anton Chekov

14. The Lower Depths (1902) is a famous work by whom?

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

15. Shamil Basayev, killed in 2006 as one of Russia's most wanted men, was a leader of which group?

    1. Ukrainians
    2. Criemans
    3. Georgians
    4. Chechen

16. Myrmekion was a key city during which culture?

    1. Bosporan Kingdom
    2. Samara
    3. Kama
    4. Scythians

17. in which year of the nineties was the "Russian Constitutional Crisis"?

    1. 1997
    2. 1998
    3. 1992
    4. 1993

18. In what year did King Darius the Great attack the Scythians?

    1. 312 BC
    2. 512 BC
    3. 88 BC
    4. 1090 BC

19. In 1991 Soviet Troops invaded what nation?

    1. Estonia
    2. Poland
    3. Lithuania
    4. Latvia

20. How many nations sent Athletes to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics?

    1. 88
    2. 8
    3. 18
    4. 188