Wiz Quiz - Russia



Russia Quiz

1) What is the capital of Russia? Answer: Moscow.

2) To which royal house did Peter the Great belong? Answer: Romanov.

3) From whom did the city of Ekaterinburg get its name? Answer: the wife of Peter the Great.

4) What was commemorated by the 1812 Overture written by Tchaikovsky? Answer: the retreat of Napoleon from Moscow.

5) Which country was Russia's enemy in the Crimean War? Answer: Turkey.

6) Who married Nicholas II, the last Czar? Answer: Alexandra - granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

7) Who was the author of Doctor Zhivago? Answer: Pasternak.

8) War and Peace and Anna Karenina were made into films. Who wrote these novels? Answer: Leo Tolstoy.

9) Who was Grigori Yefimovich? Answer: Rasputin.

10) Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the USSR? Answer: Stalin.

11) Russia and the following countries formed the USSR: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine. Which country is missing? Answer: Estonia.

12) Rudolph Nureyev, the ballet dancer, defected to the West from the USSR in 1961. Who was his most famous dance partner? Answer: Margot Fonteyn.

13) Who was the first cosmonaut? Answer: Yuri Gagarin.

14) The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war. Which country was involved in this dispute with the USSR? Answer: USA.

15) Which leader of the USSR was responsible for economic reforms (perestroika) and greater openness between countries (glasnost)? Answer: Gorbachev.

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