Politics
This was a conflict between the United States and the USSR that lasted from 1948-1991 and was marked by a lack of major combat between the two main powers.
What is the Cold War?
This nuclear disaster is named after the Ukrainian town nearby.
What is Chernobyl?
This is the art form used by Orthodox Christians to celebrate and pray to specific Saints.
What is an Icon?
What art form was celebrated in Imperia Russia?
What are nebulae?
This is where a government restricts information and knowledge from their citizens intentionally.
What is censorship?
Much like Western Europe some Eastern European Countries have joined this economic group
What is the European Union?
Name one of Muslim majority countries in the Balkans.
What is Albania, Kosovo, or Bosnia & Herzegovina
This is the majority culture group that migrated to Eastern Europe in the 6th century.
Who are the Slavs?
What do most shellfish, like Lobsters, do with their shells after molting?
They eat it!
This was the Royal Russian Dynasty that ruled as Tsars.
Who are the Romanovs?
This is the economic or government system that was support by the Soviet Union.
What is Communism or a Command Economy?
This empire introduce Eastern Orthodoxy to Eastern Europe.
What is the Byzantine (Roman) Empire?
This medieval kingdom was thought to be Viking in origin but now we know they were actually Slavic.
Who were the Kievan Rus?
What does a baby have 270 of but adults only have 206?
This was the main leader of the Russian Revolution.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
This is a major source of income for the Russian economy.
What is a Patriarch?
This Byzantine Emperor traded a marriage with his sister and a promise to convert to Christianity for an elite group of bodyguards from Vladimir the Great.
Who is the Basil II
In the film Citizen Kane, what was Rosebud?
It was a sled, also a metaphor, but really just a sled.
This was the first Tsar or Czar of Russia
Who is Ivan the Terrible (awesome)
This Russian leader sent political enemies and prisoners to gulags or forced labor camps.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This is the leader of the Kievan Rus who first converted to Orthodox Christianity.
Who is Vladimir I or Vladimir the Great?
What was the central benefit the Soviets brought to the Russian people that we talked about.
What is increased Literacy rates?
Live and Let Die, Thunderball, Dr. No, and Moonraker are all adventure films/novels of what character?
Who is James Bond?