Trains, Snow, and Death
Pushkin's Problems
prot..uh...lasagna
To boldly go where no man had ever gone before before the Russians
Stalin's mustache
100
This is the reason why Ivan Ivanovich asked Nikolai to revise his book on the land in Duplyanka.
What is increasingly strict censorship?
100
The reason the first duel that Pushkin challenged Georges d'Anthes to was put off.
d'Anthes proclaimed his love for Pushkin's sister-in-law.
100
This term is defined as a song that has a long melody with many twists and turns that is melismatic.
What is protyazhnaya? (I will also accept prot...uh...lasagna)
100
This animal was launched into space in Sputnik II.
What is a dog?
100
Ivan the Terrible's team of "political police" who were really assassins.
What is the oprichniki?
200
This happens the same night that Tiverzin gets in a fight defending a young boy from Khudoleiev.
The railway workers go on strike.
200
The reason Ivan Vasilievich stops seeing Varinka in Tolstoy's "After the Dance."
Because he sees her father cruelly punishing a soldier.
200
Although Glinka's A LIFE FOR THE TSAR premiered in 1836, it portrayed events that happened in this year.
What is 1613?
200
This is how electrical power was provided to the Surveyor.
What is a large solar panel?
200
Pugachev's Rebellion happened in this year.
1773.
300
The reason Zhivago joins the war.
What is a shortage of medical officers?
300
This person wrote the epigraph at the beginning of Pushkin's "Autumn."
Who is Derzhavin?
300
This person composed THE IRON FOUNDRY.
Who was Alexander Mosolov?
300
The goal of the Luna 3's mission.
To show mankind the dark side of the moon (like Pink Floyd).
300
This treaty was signed between the Soviets and the Germans on August 23, 1939.
What is the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
400
The true identity of Strelnikov.
Who is Pavel Antipov?
400
The year that Chekhov's "The Lady with a Dog" was published.
1899
400
Rachmaninoff's melodies are often compared to this.
What are chant melodies of the Russian Orthodox church?
400
The U.S President who created NASA.
Who was Eisenhower?
400
The first Five-Year-Plan lasted this many years.
4.
500
According to Zhivago during his stay in Varykino, this is the most important reason why a literary creation appeals to readers.
What is the presence of art?
500
The two forces at war in Blok's "On the Fields of Kulikovo."
What are Russia and the Tartar Golden Horde?
500
The xylophone belongs to this classification (CLASSIFICATION, not family, so if you thought the answer was percussion, you're wrong).
What is idiophone?
500
This is the formula for thrust.
T=mC, or (propellant mass flow) x (exhaust velocity)
500
The city of Kiev was located along this river.
What is the Dnieper?
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