Back in the USSR
Russian Science
Soviet Geography
Soviet Musician and Artists
The Fall of the Soviet Union
100
Which of these countries was never part of the Soviet Union?
a. Romania
b. Estonia
c. Moldova
d. Ukraine
What is Romania?
100
What was the name of the first space satellite?
What was Sputnik?
100
Soviet territory contained all the major vegetation zones with the exception of:
a. Tundra
b. Taiga
c. Temperate coniferous forest
d. Tropical rainforest
What is tropical rainforest?
100
Name the influential ballet composer Igor Stravinsky created:
a. The Rite of Spring
b. Swan Lake
c. The Nutcracker
d. Barber of Seville
What is the Rite of Spring?
100
Who was the US President when the Soviet Union collapsed?
Who was George H.W. Bush?
200
Who was the Premiere of the USSR when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place?
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Nikita Khrushchev
c. Leonid Brezhnev
d. Yuri Gagarin
Who was Khrushchev?
200
Who was the first Soviet cosmonaut?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
200
The USSR occupied about what fraction of the earth's surface?
a. 1/2 b. 1/5 c. 1/6 d. 1/8
What is 1/6th?
200
Name this Soviet artist who created "The Mower."
a. Malevich b. Stravinsky c. Gagarin d. Gorky
Who is Malevich?
200
Which President urged Mikael Gorbachev to, "Tear down the wall!"
Who was Ronald Reagan?
300
Who said, We will bury you", during a speech to Western ambassadors at a reception in Moscow on November 18, 1956?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
When did the USSR first blow up a atomic bomb?
a. 1948 b. 1949 c. 1950 d. 1951
When was 1949?
300
What mountain range separates European USSR from the Asian part of the USSR?
a. Alps
b. Carpathians
c. Urals
d. Himalayas
What are the Urals?
300
"Maxim Gorky" was a famous painting done by:
a. Gorbachev b. Gagarin c. Malevich d. Brodsky
Who is Brodsky?
300
What Soviet word meant or means openness, meaning a willingness to be open to western ideals of democracy and capitalism?
a. Perestroika
b. Glasnost
c. Duma
d. Doge
What is Glasnost?
400
Who was the leader of the USSR when the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989?
a. Leonid Brezhnev
b. YUri Gagarin
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Mikael Gorbachev
WHo is Gorbachev?
400
Most often called the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb," but most people know him as one of the twentieth century's most ardent opposers to the Cold War.
a. Andrei Sakharov
b. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
c. Yuri Gagarin
d.Lina Stern
Who was Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov?
400
Which river in the USSR is the longest?
What is the Volga River?
400
Born in Moscow this famous artist painted in Berlin and other places see if you recognize this artist work, "Swinging."
Who is Kandinsky?
400
Which Soviet leader won the Nobel Prize in 1990?
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
What band or musician and band played in Red Square the center of Moscow, USSR?
a. Billy Joel
b. Paul McCartney
c. Ringo Star
d. Pink Floyd
Who is Sir Paul McCartney?
500
Which of the following scientist of the USSR won a Nobel Peace Prize in chemistry in 1956?
a. Lev Landau
b. Nikolay Basov
c. Nikolay Semyonov
d. Pyotr Kapitsa
Who is Nikolay Semyonov?
500
What Sea is the largest of the Soviet Union?
What is the Caspian Sea?
500
He wrote about the Russian Revolution in the book and later movie, Doctor Zhivago.
a. Boris Pasternak
b. Mikhail Gorbachev
c. Alexander Solzynichen
d. Alexander Pushkin
Who is Boris Pasternak?
500
What is Russian word for restructuring the economy and political world?
a. Glasnost
b. Doge
c. Perestroika
d. Molotov
What is Perestroika?