Kings, Rulers, Leaders
This tsar, the first to leave Russia after a century, was famous for having created the first Russian Navy.
Who is Peter the Great?
This former capital city, where the river Neva empties into the ocean, was built on the ruins of a conquered Swedish fortress.
What is St. Petersburg?
This olympic athlete is recognized as having won the most medals in the history of the games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This type of blood cells in the human body that fight infections and diseases and can engulf and digest invading bacteria, fungi, and cellular debris.
These two symbols appeared on the flag of the Soviet Union.
What are the hammer and sickle?
In his June 12, 1987 speech in West Berlin, this American president demanded Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Before 1936, this Caucasian capital city was often spelled Tiflis in the foreign press.
What is Tiblisi?
This female tennis player, one of the most prominent contenders of the early 21st century, is famous for winning five Grand Slam titles.
Who is Maria Sharapova?
This organ is the largest in the human body.
What is skin?
This animal was the first to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on November 3rd, 1957.
Who was Laika?
This first President of the Russian Federation once refused to exit his airplane during a state visit to Ireland, leaving the Irish leader waiting on the runway.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
This capital city, known at times as Akmolinsk and Nur Sultan, among others, holds the world record for most name changes in modern times.
What is Astana?
Ahead of this Olympic Game, the Olympic flame traveled to the International Space Station, where it was taken out on a spacewalk by a cosmonaut.
What is Sochi, 2014?
This medical term describes a sideways curvature of the spine most commonly occurring in young adults during a growth spurt.
What is scoliosis?
This person succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union after his death in March 1953.
Who was Georgy Malenkov?
This Empress of Prussian birth overthrew her husband after he had been on the throne for only six months.
Who is Catherine the Great?
The letters D.C. in Washington D.C. stand for this official title.
What is the District of Columbia?
This sports team victory resulted in the largest parade in Toronto’s history, with over 2 million people in attendance.
What is the Toronto Raptors 2019 Championship?
This internal organ stores bile and is also removed during a cholecystectomy.
What is the gallbladder?
This ex-soviet country located in the Baltic region was the first to break away from the USSR in March of 1990.
What is Lithuania?
This king, the last ruler of Dacia, fought three wars against the Romans before being defeated in 102 AD.
Who is Decebalus?
Leon Trotsky was assassinated in this capital city.
What is Mexico City?
This Olympic racing event involves plummeting head-first down a steep and treacherous ice track on a tiny sled, and is considered the world's first sliding sport.
What is skeleton?
Hyperhidrosis is a medical term used to describe excessive production of this bodily fluid.
What is sweat?
This coal miner, who famously mined 14 times his quota, became the namesake for a labour movement designed to encourage workers to exceed production targets.
Who was Alexei Stakhanov?