In what year did the Soviet Union fall apart and the Russian tricolor switched the Soviet flag at the Red Square?
1991
What is Russia's most popular sport?
Soccer
What city is the final destination of the Trans-Siberian Railway (longest railway in the world), if you go from Moscow?
Vladivostok
What is the name, that only Russians use to describe meat on the grill? (Hint: we had a social name like that last semester!)
Shashlik
What Russian Tsar founded the city that was called Leningrad in the Soviet Union?
Peter the Great
Who was the last Tsar of Russia, the person before Lenin took power?
Tsar Nicholas II
Who was the mascot of the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow?
Olympic Mishka
Which Russian mountains separate Europe and Asia geographically?
Ural Mountains
What popular Russian drink, is highly similar to beer, but contains almost no alcohol, allowing anyone to buy it in the store?
Kvas
Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Leo Tolstoy
Which Communist Leader of the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn??
Nikita Khruschev
Which Russian city hosted the Summer Universiade (Olympics for University students) in 2013?
Kazan'
What fraction of all land on earth does Russia cover?
1/10
From what Russian region did Pelmeni come from?
Ural or Siberia
What is the name of the first man in space?
Yuriy Gagarin
Which Tsar sold Alaska to America?
Alexander II
What is the most popular soccer team in Russia?
Spartak Moscow
Where in Russia is Europe's highest active volcano?
Kamchatka
What is the name that people from the former Soviet Union use for the cutlet with a piece of butter inside of it?
Who was the president of Russia from 2008-2012
Dmitriy Medvedev
One of Russia's regions is considered to be Europe's capital of that religion, as it is the only region where this religion is prominent in all of Europe. What religion is it?
Buddhism, Kalmykia
In what summer Olympic sport is Russia winning gold medals for 6 Olympics in a row?
Synchronized Swimming
In what Russian city did the last meteorite fall on the earth? (Happened on 15th of February 2013)
Chelyabinsk
What day of the week in the Soviet Union was considered to be a "Fish Day", as all canteens served fish that day?
Thursday
Who wrote the novel Fathers and Sons (Otsi i Deti)?
Ivan Turgenev