Russian Language
What writing system does the Russian language use?
Cyrillic
Which winter holiday has been celebrated in Russia massively since Soviet times?
New Years
Following the adventures of a little Siberian girl and an anthropomorphic bear, this show is famous across the world.
Masha and the Bear
In which year did the October Revolution break out across the Russian Empire?
1917
What is the second largest city (by population) in the Russian Federation?
St. Petersburg
How many cases are used in Russian?
What is the popular Russian children's drink that is (mostly) non-Alcoholic?
Kvas
Considered one of the most famous Russian writers, this person wrote such novels like Hadji Murat and Death of Ivan Ilyvich
Leo Tolstoy
From the 1700s until 1867, Russia had a maritime colony in this region, until it was sold to a foreign power at a cheap cost.
Alaska, formerly known as Russian America
14 countries
What is the more formal synonym of the verb "кушать"
Есть
Which Russian fairy tale creature lives in a chicken-legged cabin?
Baba Yaga
This anti-Soviet Russian exile was awarded an honorary degree from Holy Cross in 1984
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In this year, the Supreme Leader of the Soviet Union, Comrade Joesph Stalin, died.
March 5, 1952
The River Dnipro runs through which countries?
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
What is the multi-directional form of the verb "идти"?
Ходить
This well known song is about a girl who misses her soldier boyfriend, but also shares the nickname of a WWII-era rocket launcher
Katyusha
This popular Russian movie follows the heroic shenanigans of a Red Army soldier during the Civil War, and is allegedly Putin's favourite film.
Chapaev
In what year did the Baptism of the Rus' occur?
988
Name at least one Russian subdivision that has a significant Muslim population.
Dagestan, Chechnya, Tatarstan
What country has the second highest amount of Russian speakers by population?
Kazakhstan (16 million)
What famous 2000s era Russian pop-star is most famous for her hit songs "хочешь?", "Прости меня, моя любовь" , and "Искала?"
Zemfira
This Soviet writer was so influential for communist literature, that Nizhny Novgorod was named after him until 1990.
Maxim Gorky
With which country did the Russian Empire enter a rivalry for Eurasian hegemony in the 19th Century (known as the "Great Game")?
The United Kingdom
From the late 1920s until the mid 1960s, this Central Asian city was known as "Stalinabad"
Dushanbe