Politics
What is the former post-Soviet country which has had the same one president since its independence in 1991? Who is that president?
Belarus, and Alexander Lukashenko
What ethnicity was Stalin?
Georgian
What city is the author of Metamorphosis from, and who is it?
Prague, and Franz Kafka
What is the second biggest post-Soviet country?
Kazakhstan
What is the name of the propaganda essay that Putin published the summer before launching the invasion of Ukraine?
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
What is the traditional embroidered shirt found in Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Russia called?
Vyshyvanka
Who is the Ukrainian national poet?
Taras Shevchenko
How many republics were in the Soviet Union, and what countries did they evolve into now?
15 - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Turkmenistan.
What is the name of the intergovernmental military alliance which was established in 2002 as an attempt to develop a successor alliance to the Warsaw Pact? (bonus 100) What are the six current members?
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) & Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
What was the peaceful transfer of power from communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 called?
The Velvet Revolution
What is the name of Anton Chekhov's book about Russian penal colonies?
Sakhalin Island
What is the name of the longest river in Ukraine?
The Dnipro River
Who is the president of Kazakhstan?
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Which Russian dissident author exposed the Soviet labor camps in The Gulag Archipelago?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How many characters are named in Anna Karenina? (within 30 gets the point)
239
Which country borders both Poland and Lithuania and has an exclave on the Baltic Sea?
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia)
What expression, coined by Chairman Mao, did Trump call Putin this week?
Paper Tiger
Which artist painted the iconic Black Square in 1915?
Kazimir Malevich
At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patri arch’s Ponds. One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald, and car ried his respectable fedora hat in his hand. His neatly shaven face was adornedwithblackhorn-rimmedglassesofasupernaturalsize. Theother, a broad-shouldered young man with tousled reddish hair, his checkered cap cocked back on his head, was wearing a cowboy shirt, wrinkled white trousers and black sneakers.
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The “Caucasus Mountains” form a natural border between which two major bodies of water?
The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea