T99 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE QUIZ
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:31 pm1 Who was elected President of Russia in June 1991?
BORIS YELTSIN
2 Domodedovo and Bikovo are both the names of what in Moscow?
AIRPORTS
3 What is the Russian word for citadel?
KREMLIN
4 Who did Geoffrey Robinson describe as, “the Rasputin of New Labour”?
PETER MANDELSON
5 Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago?
BORIS PASTERNAK
6 Who did Konstantin Chernenko succeed as Soviet leader?
YURI ANDROPOV
7 What is a samovar?
A RUSSIAN TEA URN
8 What is the four letter name for the Russian parliament?
DUMA
9 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
10 If Bolshevik means majority, what word means minority?
MENSHEVIK
11 Which lake is known as, the Blue Eye of Siberia?
LAKE BAIKAL
12 The Sabre Dance is the most famous work of which Russian composer?
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
13 After Moscow, what is the most populous city in Russia?
ST. PETERSBURG
14 Which was the first Russian act to top the UK singles charts?
TATU
15 What gives the Russian soup borscht its reddish colour?
BEETROOT
16 Who was voted Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2003?
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
17 Which country shares a 1340km land border with Russia?
FINLAND
18 What is the unit of currency in Russia?
ROUBLE
19 Which 1985 hit for Elton John was written by Elton following a trip to Russia?
NIKITA
20 How does the word glasnost translate into English?
OPENNESS
21 Which Russian wrote the controversial novel Lolita?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
22 Which word of Russian origin is a shortened version of Glavnoe Uperavlenie Lagerei?
GULAG
23 The name for which Russian spacecrafts translate to English as fellow traveller?
SPUTNIK
24 Which word of Russian origin relating to economic reform means restructuring?
PERESTAOIKA
25 By what three letters was the Committee of the State Security Police of the Soviet Union better known?
KGB
BORIS YELTSIN
2 Domodedovo and Bikovo are both the names of what in Moscow?
AIRPORTS
3 What is the Russian word for citadel?
KREMLIN
4 Who did Geoffrey Robinson describe as, “the Rasputin of New Labour”?
PETER MANDELSON
5 Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago?
BORIS PASTERNAK
6 Who did Konstantin Chernenko succeed as Soviet leader?
YURI ANDROPOV
7 What is a samovar?
A RUSSIAN TEA URN
8 What is the four letter name for the Russian parliament?
DUMA
9 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
10 If Bolshevik means majority, what word means minority?
MENSHEVIK
11 Which lake is known as, the Blue Eye of Siberia?
LAKE BAIKAL
12 The Sabre Dance is the most famous work of which Russian composer?
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
13 After Moscow, what is the most populous city in Russia?
ST. PETERSBURG
14 Which was the first Russian act to top the UK singles charts?
TATU
15 What gives the Russian soup borscht its reddish colour?
BEETROOT
16 Who was voted Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2003?
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
17 Which country shares a 1340km land border with Russia?
FINLAND
18 What is the unit of currency in Russia?
ROUBLE
19 Which 1985 hit for Elton John was written by Elton following a trip to Russia?
NIKITA
20 How does the word glasnost translate into English?
OPENNESS
21 Which Russian wrote the controversial novel Lolita?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
22 Which word of Russian origin is a shortened version of Glavnoe Uperavlenie Lagerei?
GULAG
23 The name for which Russian spacecrafts translate to English as fellow traveller?
SPUTNIK
24 Which word of Russian origin relating to economic reform means restructuring?
PERESTAOIKA
25 By what three letters was the Committee of the State Security Police of the Soviet Union better known?
KGB
Yeltsin
